Bill Bosacker & CS Nuggets

Plug for Sueetie!

2008-12-19T04:38:00Z

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...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Sizing your browser window for Internet development

2008-12-18T04:15:00Z

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...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Uru Live goes Open Source

2008-12-16T21:01:00Z

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...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

The Thanksgiving Story: in about a minute

2008-11-27T18:48:00Z

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Upgraded to CS 2008.5

2008-11-25T22:12:00Z

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...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Gift cards: A bad idea gets even worse

2008-11-25T22:10:00Z

Hey Guys, You're propbably going to see my post frequency go up over the next couple of months for various reasons. I'm sure that everyone is aware of all the crap that is going on with Wall Street. There is an excellent post by Liz Pulliam Weston...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

DirecTV support in Windows 7

2008-11-24T22:59:00Z

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...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Fun Stuff: Kitties and Armageddon

2008-11-24T18:45:00Z

While checking out some news videos today, I came across the following videos. Enjoy... Roomba Kitty Kitty Thirst Office Nerf War...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Event Calendar is no more

2008-11-23T02:40:00Z

Due to changes in Telligent's direction and pricing model, I have made the difficult decision to end all development on the calendar control that I had created for CS 2007 and partially ported to CS 2008. Instead, I will invest my time in finishing...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Google's twist on the AJAX AutoComplete tool

2008-11-06T21:04:00Z

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...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Site was down over the weekend

2008-11-03T18:20:00Z

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...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Silverlight 2 Released - October 14, 2008

2008-10-18T19:39:00Z

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...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Windows 2008 Workstation, 4 months later...

2008-10-08T18:49:00Z

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...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Custom themes and source control

2008-09-30T06:42:00Z

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....( read more ) Read More......(read more)

CS2008: A first look at the CS2008.5 SDK

2008-09-28T19:13:00Z

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. The projects...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Visual Studio 2008: Debugging Web Applications on IIS7

2008-09-05T02:28:00Z

"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...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

A look behind "The Mojave Experiment"

2008-09-04T03:04:00Z

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...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

CS2008: Calendar control status update

2008-09-04T00:22:00Z

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...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Released

2008-08-12T01:43:00Z

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...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

CS2008: Code base issues

2008-07-24T16:18:00Z

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,...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Invisible CAPTCHA added! Anonymous comments enabled!

2008-07-11T09:33:00Z

I've been wanting to enable anonymous comments for some time, but hadn't due to enormous amount of BLOG spam that is being generated. I had considered using a CAPTCHA scheme with images, but it usually turns out to be more of a nusence to users...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

CS2008: Good news for .NET Community Program sites

2008-07-10T00:30:00Z

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...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Bluetooth for Windows Server 2008

2008-07-03T19:14:00Z

Microsoft in it's infinite wisdom has decided that Bluetooth is not for servers. I ask, what about voice mail systems, developer workstations, and whatever else the user needs it for? Well, the post Installing the Microsoft Bluetooth Stack on Windows...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Wanted: Massage Therapist

2008-07-03T06:16:00Z

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CS2008: CFS: The deal breaker

2008-06-30T18:30:00Z

When I first read about CFS a number of months ago and learned that objects are no longer going to be stored in the database, I thought, "What are these guys thinking." I knew that there going to be problems, and sure enough, there are. The...( read more ) Read More......(read more)