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It's Official - Upgraded Blog & New Diggs

Wayne Larimore — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:02:03 GMT

This past weekend I upgraded this blog. I run my blog on subText, a fork of the old .TEXT blogging platform. I went from version 1.9.3 to 2.1.2 and it wasn't a smooth migration path, let me tell you.

At the same time, I moved all of my websites (including this blog) from webhost4life to the fairly new WinHost.com. These guys are doing it all right. It fits exactly what I was needing and has cut my hosting cost in half. They bill on a monthly basis and have top quality support. The control panel is very simple but yet powerful. I went with the basic plan. However, they do provide an advanced plan as well. Some of the issues I ran across with my subText upgrade dealt with going from an IIS 6 platform to an IIS 7 platform. If anyone else is looking to do the same leave a comment and I'll fill you in on what I had to do to make it happen.

Anyways, I'm a happy camper now. Glad to have the migration behind me.

Telerik online VB C# Code Converter Translator

Wayne Larimore — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:21:30 GMT

It appears that Telerik has published a Visual Basic and C# code translation online. Nice.

http://converter.telerik.com/

How To Upgrade Windows 7 RC to Windows 7 RTM

Wayne Larimore — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:05:44 GMT

[via intowindows.com]

"If you have been running Windows 7 RC, then you might want to upgrade from Windows 7 RC to Windows 7 RTM. Although Windows 7 RC to Windows 7 RTM in-place upgrade is not supported officially, you can upgrade from Windows 7 RC to RTM with a simple trick."

http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-upgrade-windows-7-rc-to-rtm

Virtual PC VMWare Alternative = Virtual Box (VirtualBox)

Wayne Larimore — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:38:53 GMT

If you believe Microsoft's Virtual PC has been abandoned or VMWare is too pricey for your budget, give the free Open Source alternative a try. I have been reading some forums and blog posts from some happy folks using it. Also, as of this posting date, the community is really active in keeping it cutting edge.

Virtual Box - http://www.virtualbox.org/

"VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL)."

asp.net page break via HTML - reporting tip

Wayne Larimore — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:55:18 GMT

Have you ever wanted to kick out a report via ASP.NET but have not figured out how to force page breaks? Well, here's the easy on it:

style="PAGE-BREAK-AFTER: always"

You can make your report as simple or complex as you like with pure ASP.NET and a javascript print function - you're in business.

ASP.NET Panel control generates Hot Pink background

Wayne Larimore — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:41:24 GMT

Anyone else come across this phenomenon? I thought something in my style settings was doing this at first. Then I started out from scratch. I created a new Website with a new webform. Introduced a GridView control and wrapped it up with a Panel control and printed it out. Hot Pink, baby! The culprit seems to be the Panel control.

[update] turned out to be related to the printer driver for the Ricoh printer line

Duplicate Items in DropDownList using AppendDataBoundItems

Wayne Larimore — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:46:19 GMT

Are you getting duplicate entries in your DropDownList control when using AppendDataBoundItems="true" and pulling in data from a datasource? This is one of those things that trips me up ever so often. The solution is to set EnableViewState="false" on the control. This prevents the previous items from being cached in the ViewState.

Hope this helps. If so, leave a comment of your experience.

subText 2.0 not ready for shared environment hosting

Wayne Larimore — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:51:39 GMT

This weekend I took it upon myself to upgrade my subText blog to version 2.0. I'm glad I backed up everything before attempting the debacle. My first clue should have been it's only a few days old since it was released. I went through the steps of wiping out all old files and ftp'ing all the new ones and merging my web [dot] config differences. I got an error pointing to an assembly that was suspect. After searching on SourceForge.net forums I downloaded the latest DotNetOpenID assembly and copied it over to the bin folder. Then I got the Upgrading in Progress splash screen. Then, I came across a posting from Paul Wideman. He found the bug in the code related to not working well with partial trust environments like GoDaddy, Webhost4life and others. I downloaded his patch and applied it with TortoiseMerge and compiled the Framework assembly, copied it up to the bin directory - thinking this would fix that problem. Nadda! Still had the Upgrading - be patient screen. So, after 24 hours of my blog being down I made the decision to roll back to version 1.x. And I was so looking forward to the new version 2 features. I apologize to anyone trying to access anything on my blog during this down time. I think I'll wait until a new verified and seasoned version is released.

[update] For my sake as well as others, here are some references of others having problems and how they worked them out:

http://www.kowitz.net/archive/2008/08/15/upgrading-to-subtext-2.0-fail.aspx

Hands on Labs for Developing Apps on WSS 3.0

Wayne Larimore — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:28:54 GMT

[via AC]

Do you need hands-on development experience with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Applications? Here's a link to start your journey:

Hands on Labs for Developing Applications on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Sharepoint Developer Training for Newbies

Wayne Larimore — Mon, 19 May 2008 04:07:21 GMT

[via AC]

If you can, and it's free, hook into these upcoming SharePoint developer training series:

SharePoint Developer MSDN Web Cast Series