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Have a great 2009!

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT

CS2008: Custom installs of Calendar Control

Bill Bosacker — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:59:00 GMT

Hey guys, Even though I have no plans to do any further work on the calendar control that I created for Community Server, I have been receiving requests for it. So, I have decided to make it available as a custom install from my corporate site. If you are interested in a custom install, please read Requests for my Calendar Control and send an email to sales@wgb.com with your request. Thanks, Bill Bosacker...(read more)

Blog comments working again

Bill Bosacker — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:37:00 GMT

Thanks to a note from Dave Burke I learned that comments had stopped working after the upgrade to CS2008.5. It turns out that the upgrade had turned off the ViewState on all of the post.aspx pages, which I had turned on previously to enable the Invisible CAPTCHA scheme that I was using. I have again turned on the ViewState for the pages that require it. If you notice any quirkiness, please let me know....(read more)

What is ASP.NET Live Membership?

Bill Bosacker — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:00:00 GMT

ASP.NET Live Membership is 100% compatible with Microsoft's ASP.NET Membership System and will be released in 2 forms. The open source form will allow multiple applications to share Users and/or Roles, while the commercial form will also include a full permission based security system API. This is the system that will be used as the basis for the CMSLive.NET licensing system that will be released in 2009. The image below represents the current database diagram for the commercial version that...(read more)

New Project: ASP.NET Live Membership

Bill Bosacker — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT

I'm taking a little time right now to announce a new project that is going to be released very shortly. The ASP.NET Live Membership project is 100% compatible with the existing ASP.NET Membership System in the .NET Framework, but will use a different database schema and replacement set of stored procedures. Check out the new ASP.NET Live Membership blog where a more detailed description of the project has been posted....(read more)

Plug for Sueetie!

Bill Bosacker — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:38:00 GMT

The ASP.NET platform is great for fast development and Dave Burke has put together an open source application suite that is comprised of several other open source projects and tied together with a unified application manager. His This could be big. Sueetie is online! post describes the project and his manifesto can been seen at sueetie.org . This is a great alternative for those who can't afford the extremely high costs of Community Server and find that Graffiti cms can't meet their needs...(read more)

Sizing your browser window for Internet development

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:15:00 GMT

If you have ever designed a web site you know that testing the site with a standard browser size is extremely important, but outside of manually changing your display settings most developers don't know of other ways to do this. I've been using variations of the attached page for years. Just navigate to this page, click on the display and size that you need, and presto, your browser window is the exact size that you need. Prior to IE 7 the size and location would be saved upon closing the...(read more)

Uru Live goes Open Source

Bill Bosacker — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:01:00 GMT

Yep, that's right! Cyan Worlds has recently announced on their Myst Online web site that they will be releasing all of the server, client, and tools code for Uru Live to the open source community. Once all of the code is available and I have a chance to evaluate the requirements, I plan on putting up a site of my own for all of the guild members of Genus Order (the guild I was in when I played EQ). Enjoy......(read more)

The Thanksgiving Story: in about a minute

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT

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Upgraded to CS 2008.5

Bill Bosacker — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:12:00 GMT

I was going to wait until I had time to write the new CFS module, but decided to upgrade early so that I can do some live testing. The upgrade to SP1 should be within the next couple of weeks, once I get a chance to update the SDK. If you run into any problems, please let me know....(read more)

DirecTV support in Windows 7

Bill Bosacker — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:59:00 GMT

Here is a post on ZDNet: DirecTV’s HD tuner set to debut with Windows 7? I've been wondering when this was going to become available and I'm 100% certain that it is on the way. Why? Because the last firmware update to DirecTVs HD DVRs adds support to allow PCs to download and view programs stored on the HD DVR. This support is only for the HD DVRs and is not available for STD DVRs. If you subscribe to DirecTV and have a Media PC like I do, this is something that you will definitely...(read more)

Fun Stuff: Kitties and Armageddon

Bill Bosacker — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:45:00 GMT

While checking out some news videos today, I came across the following videos. Enjoy... Roomba Kitty Kitty Thirst Cat Gets Into Yogurt Box Office Nerf War...(read more)

Google's twist on the AJAX AutoComplete tool

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:04:00 GMT

I'm sure that you've been to sites that are using the new AJAX tools, one of them being the auto complete text box with a simulated dropdown list. The tool basically sends the contents of the text box to a search engine to help predict what you are typing. This in itself doesn't sound bad, until you find out what else Google is doing with this information: http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/corporateering/corpact4/ Last night, our local CBS news affiliate asked Google exactly was they are...(read more)

Site was down over the weekend

Bill Bosacker — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:20:00 GMT

On Saturday, the site went down during a server upgrade when I accidentally gave the last domain controller on the network the wrong IP address. Around 3am this morning, I finally got everything up and working. I still have 1 physical server and several virtual servers to upgrade, so the site may go down periodically (up to an hour) while I work on these servers. Thank you for your patience......(read more)

Silverlight 2 Released - October 14, 2008

Bill Bosacker — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:39:00 GMT

Most of you are probably like me when you first heard about Silverlight and saw the pre-release demo. You asked, "Why would I ever do video editing through a web browser, let alone over the Internet?" And you know what, you were not alone. Microsoft has repeatedly screwed up the release of many of its products over the past 3-4 years, and is very aware of how bad their marketing attempts have been. I went to a special and FREE 8 hour presentation on TFS last year where Microsoft admitted...(read more)

Windows 2008 Workstation, 4 months later...

Bill Bosacker — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:49:00 GMT

Hey All, While perusing the InfoWorld site today and seriously considering whether or not I want to drop my free subscription (most of their writers are complete idiots (layman term that they'll understand)), I came across the writings of Randall Kennedy. This is one guy who actually understands what it means to be a developer that works on multiple Microsoft platforms. Unfortunately, most of his critics have no understanding of this concept, thus their comments. He did the same thing that I...(read more)

Custom themes and source control

Bill Bosacker — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:42:00 GMT

After reading Breaking Themes in 2008.5 upgrade by Chris Shawn, I had an epiphany when I started to think about how I had setup the CS SDK in my TFS store. You will be able to do this with any of the major commercial source control applications (i.e. TFS, ClearCase, CVS, etc), it won't work with VSS, and I'm not sure about SVN as it is the most screwy source control application that I have ever used. In TFS I have a CS SDK root branch, a base branch which incorporates additions/changes that...(read more)

CS2008: A first look at the CS2008.5 SDK

Bill Bosacker — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:13:00 GMT

From a user POV, CS2008.5 is just a bunch of bug fixes with the addition of a new application type, Wikis. But, this is a major step for developers. Here is a cursory list of the changes: The SDK has been converted to Visual Studio 2008, but it appears that Telligent has not installed the latest service pack as the project files now store the Visual Studio build number. The projects all target the 2.0 .NET Framework, but they are also using some of the compiler changes that were made available with...(read more)

Visual Studio 2008: Debugging Web Applications on IIS7

Bill Bosacker — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:28:00 GMT

"Unable to start debugging on the Web server. The IIS worker process for the launched URL is not currently running." This post is mostly for myself so that I don't forget the information, but when setting up a web site on a Windows Server 2008 machine with Visual Studio 2008 installed, you need to make sure that the IP address is set to All Unassigned (*). In all previous server versions you must set a specific IP address to ensure that the web site starts (in the case of multiple web...(read more)

A look behind "The Mojave Experiment"

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:04:00 GMT

After reading Dave Burke's post Everyman Links for July 25, 2008 , I immediately wondered what was actually presented to these people as the information presented was very limited. The major points of interest were: How was the hardware requirements issue addressed? Was the newbie vs experienced user issue addressed? The overall answer is that "The Mojave Experiment" is nothing but smoke and mirrors. None of the issues are properly addressed. The laptops used are about a year old, which...(read more)

CS2008: Calendar control status update

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:22:00 GMT

It's been a while since I last posted anything, so I now would be a good time give everyone a status update on what it happening with the calendar control as well other other add-ons that I have planned. The last time that I worked on the control I discovered several issues with the core functionality of CS2008 that made it impossible to create a functional control. I sent the issues to Telligent and I am hoping that they are all addressed when SP1 is released, but I won't know until it is...(read more)

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Released

Bill Bosacker — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:43:00 GMT

Service pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008 (all versions), MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008, and Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server have been released today. If you have an MSDN subscription you can download all of them from the download site. If you don't have a subscription, you'll need to search Microsoft Downloads for them. Enjoy......(read more)

CS2008: Code base issues

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:18:00 GMT

Hey All, I've been running into some rather significant issues with CS2008 since I started the process of updating all the code that I had written for CS2007 and prior, to work with CS2008. A lot of code is either just missing from the code base, or it has been bypassed by what looks like test code. I've been finding these very specific code bypasses all over the place, all of which cause failures of some sort. I reported one of these a week or so ago when we discovered that permissions were...(read more)

Invisible CAPTCHA added! Anonymous comments enabled!

Bill Bosacker — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:33:00 GMT

I've been wanting to enable anonymous comments for quite some time, but I hadn't due to the enormous amount of BLOG spam that is being generated on the Internet. I had considered using a CAPTCHA scheme with images, but it usually turns out to be more of a nuisance to users and requires quite a bit of coding for each and every page that uses it. I was going to bite the bullet and use images when Dave Burke directed me to a post of his, Spam and BlogEngine.NET - Nadda, Nope, Nothin , which...(read more)

CS2008: Good news for .NET Community Program sites

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:30:00 GMT

Last night I sent Rob Howard an email about some concerns that I had with Community Server, one of them being the .NET Community Program. As for this concern, here is his response: "The “.NET Community Program” absolutely still exists. I’m sorry, we need to do a better job of making sure people know about this." A few email exchanges later, I received the CS 2008 .NET Community Program license for this site. Which means that we will be switching over to CS 2008 very shortly, after I write...(read more)