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 Wednesday, November 17, 2004

Changes have been announced to both the naming of "special" directories (i.e. resources, data, bin ... ) and the compilation model of Asp.net in beta 2 of vs 2005. [0]

Personally I would have preferred a single root for the 'special'-directories, which has been considered, but rejected.

The single root approach was rejected because it did not enable us to support directories located in arbitrary locations in the application tree, such as the local resources directory. 

The default compilation model is changed to keep the markup outside of the compiled binaries. I'm not sure what to think if it, but certainly during development it's a lot easier to work with.

[0] changes in vs 2005 beta 2 for asp.net

17 Nov 2004 00:15 W. Europe Standard Time  #    Comments [0] - Trackback
Asp.Net | Visual Studio 2005 | Whidbey

 Monday, May 31, 2004

Generally I'm quite impressed with the work they've done on Whidbey thus far, but I feel some things could have been done better.

The MembershipProvider framework, works quite well in simple scenarios, but I find it too rigid to be really usefull.

My main concern is the use of a MembershipUser class in the UpdateUser method, which makes using a derived class less easy, for example a MembershipUser class with a birthdate or a PIN code. Same goes for the CreateUser method, only it takes strings as parameters representing all the properties of MembershipUser, why not a MembershipUser?

Another problem is the requirement to implement all methods, all methods on the MembershipProvider are marked abstract. In most cases I don't have the need to use a Question and Answer system to retrieve or reset a password. Not implementing GetPassword(string username, string answer) and ResetPassword(string username, string answer), for example by throwing a NotImplementedException, and relying on the documentation, is a maintenance disaster waiting to happen.

A better solution, I think would have been to use Interfaces for both base classes, those are much easier to extend and less usefull methods can be hidden by implementing them explicitly in yout customg provider, i.e. IMembershipProvider.ChangePassword(string username, string oldPassword, string newPassword).

31 May 2004 13:35 W. Europe Daylight Time  #    Comments [0] - Trackback
Asp.Net | Visual Studio 2005 | Whidbey

 Tuesday, May 25, 2004
 Tuesday, May 11, 2004

Early Adopter noticed a new naming convention for controls in the latest community preview of Whidbey:

Goodbye txtUserName, hello UserNameTextBox?

I find the second option to be more readable and more inline with the coding-conventions. You don't use strUserName anymore either, do you?

 

 

11 May 2004 23:12 W. Europe Daylight Time  #    Comments [1] - Trackback
Development | Visual Studio 2005 | Whidbey

 Friday, May 07, 2004

it was kinda to be expected, but EricGu seems to be the first to mention there will be a new release of Visual Studio 2005 (Whidbey) at Tech-Ed San Diego. Now if only that build works on the WinHec Longhorn build.

07 May 2004 00:53 W. Europe Daylight Time  #    Comments [2] - Trackback
Visual Studio 2005 | Whidbey

 Wednesday, February 11, 2004

Mark Cliggett answers the question whether PDC attendees will recieve Whidbey updates, the answer is yes and he suggests thes updates will continue untill RTM.

I hope the same will hold true for Longhorn.

11 Feb 2004 16:04 W. Europe Standard Time  #    Comments [0] - Trackback
Development | Visual Studio 2005 | Whidbey

 Tuesday, February 03, 2004
 Sunday, January 25, 2004

Korby Parnell gives us a peak of the new version of SourceSafe, which will be released with Whidbey (hopefully) by the end of 2004.

[coolbits.nu]

25 Jan 2004 23:35 W. Europe Standard Time  #    Comments [0] - Trackback
Development | Whidbey

 Friday, January 23, 2004

One of my favorite new features in Whidbey has an MSDN TV episode dedicated to it.

The best part about MSBuild (PDC presentation) is the ability to build your own tasks, or leech them of other developers.

The episode isn't on the official MSDN TV site yet, but the downloadable version is available.

23 Jan 2004 01:14 W. Europe Standard Time  #    Comments [0] - Trackback
Development | Visual Studio 2005 | Whidbey

 Wednesday, December 03, 2003

The XAML IntelliSence Patch for PDC Visual Studio .NET "Whidbey" shows Microsoft is commited to getting developers ready for Longhorn.

03 Dec 2003 00:15 W. Europe Standard Time  #    Comments [0] - Trackback
Development | Longhorn | Visual Studio 2005 | Whidbey

 Thursday, November 20, 2003

Check here for the current working draft of obsoleted methods in Whidbey and complain to BradA.

The big change I noticed is most of the clientside functionality now hidden in System.Web.UI.Page is moved to the ClientScript class ( e.g. System.Web.UI.Page.RegisterStartupScript has become ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(string key, string script) )

20 Nov 2003 00:54 W. Europe Standard Time  #    Comments [0] - Trackback
Development | Visual Studio 2005 | Whidbey

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