Wednesday, April 19th, 2006 at
7:38 pm
Scott Guthrie has posted the Microsoft has released the Asp.Net 2.0 providers as source code. These include the Membership, Role Management, Site Navigation, Session State, Profile, Web Events, and Web Part Personalization providers. There has also been quite a few pages of documentation that have been developed and I look forward to reading through the documentation and finally understanding how these providers function. You can read about the release of this source code over at Scott’s blog.
The source is released under a permissive license that allows you to modify the source and release it with your applications. I’m wondering what implications this will have for applications such as CS or DotNetNuke which both use the membership providers that was back ported for Asp.Net 1.1. This could provide some advantages with both these applications as the provider can now modified to meet their individual needs and should allow both these projects to deliver a more robust membership provider that benefits the customers of these applications.
Wednesday, April 19th, 2006 at
4:23 pm
I don’t know about you guys, but I’ve recently found myself switching back and forth between Visual Studio 2003 and Visual Studio 2005 since I’m working on applications written in both Asp.Net 2.0 and Asp.Net 1.1. Most of the applications I’m working with right now are written in Asp.Net 1.1 and I’m not ready to update those components yet. In fact I’m not sure if I will ever update some of these as the are coming to the end of their life anyway. I will still need to support these apps and perform maintenance on the code even if I never add another feature.
I would prefer to just start working totally with VS2005 since it does have quite a few enhancements to the workflow that VS2003 does not contain. Well this has not really been possible until now. Enter MSBuild Toolkit for Asp.Net 1.1. I have not tried the component yet but their is a project over at GotDotNet workspaces that claims to allow you to build Asp.Net 1.1 projects using VS2005. I’m not sure how well it works yet, but I will be trying it soon. According to the project page: Since the release of MSBuild in .NET Framework 2.0, a very frequent customer request has been to provide a means for MSBuild to build .NET 1.1 applications. This demand stems from users who want to use Visual Studio 2005 and .NET 2.0 but need to continue servicing customers who use .NET 1.1.
MSBuild Extras – Toolkit for .NET 1.1 “MSBee” is an addition to MSBuild that allows developers to build managed applications in Visual Studio 2005 that target .NET 1.1. MSBee is a member of Power Toys for Visual Studio, developed by the Developer Solutions Team. Since it is built by the Microsoft Development Team, I’m sure it works as advertised so this may prove a good method for helping me to simply my development life a little. Look for the MSBee project at GotDotNet for more information.
Wednesday, April 19th, 2006 at
4:12 pm
There is a blog post at http://seedround.com/excited-to-announce-boxxet-trying-to-bring-you-the-best/ which discusses a new concept or at least one I have not heard about yet in the way people view webpages.
Right now they are not accepting sign ups so I’m not positive exactly how this works, but it would appear that you enter in the subject you are searching for and the system will pull in content form RSS feeds and other boxxet users and allow you to build a page on the subject you are interested in researching.
I see this as possibly a cool technology for researching data, but I’m curious as to what harm something like this may do to webmasters and if there are any copyright infringements with such a system. I’m not sure if the system utilizes any screen scrapping techniques or if its just feeds, but I would think this is something like Data mining for the web. It seems like it may be a cool technology and I’ll be looking into it closer once I can create an user account and try it our for myself.
