Tech Ed. Tech Ed is the only place to go for
freakishly oversized,
world-dominating Microsoft Superheros.
Microsoft handed out Nine-guy-sized versions of these characters during the conference.
Coolest would be if Microsoft had a competition to design the fifth addition to the four Musketeers: they have Ms. SQL Server, Mr. Webcast, Mr. MSDN, and Mr. VS.NET. What semi-transparent costume will grace Miss Vista?
Looking forward to Tech Ed 2007,
-KF
Discussions
kenfine
heaven and earth
Check me out on the web at real estate apartment for rent at ideapod.org or at my blog.
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No, I don't notice this. I use DW8 at work and have IE7 installed. No problems.
I do notice that DW8 sucks, and MacroDobe is on the threshold of handing away thieir lock on the majority of the semi-pro dev market. I say this having used DW since v3.
I suspect it's going to be all VS.NET for me within just 6 months.
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Answering my Q (with a little help from MSFT's friends):
the programmatic assignments on the .aspx page need to be wrapped in the Page_Init() event, like so:
protected void Page_Init()
{
PictureUploaderAndProcessor1.PathVirtual =
"~/ni/apps/xxx/images/submitted/";
}
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I want to use codebehind to pass property values to a control that I've embedded INSIDE of a user control.In other words, let's say I have the following:MyPage.aspx...with the following control placed on it...MyUserControl.ascx... and inside of MyUserControl.ascx, is an instance of ....MyCommercialUploadControl1I want to be able to write a property to the embedded commerical component:MyCommercialUploadControl1.TargetFolderI want to be able write this property programmatically from the aspx page that originally called the instance of MyUserControl, as follows:[from MyPage.aspx]MyUserControl.TargetFolder = @"c:\whatever";Failure #1: I attempted to add logic to the codebehind for my .ascx that read the value of a property attached to itself, and then mapped that value to the embedded commercial control, e.g.MyCommercialUploadControl1.TargetFolder = this.TargetFolder// "this" refers to the ascx instanceThis did not work.Failure #2: I experimented with various scenarios involving doing the mappings onPreInit, thinking I might be running into a page lifecycle issue. This did not work either.I can successfully write properties to the user control itself, but I haven't figured out how to write properties to controls INSIDE of the control. In all cases the debugger indicates null values where I want my properties to end up. Can anyone help?Thank you.-KF
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Thanks, eagle. Up bright & early and looking forward to the session. See you in a few!
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I'm in fab wet Boston waiting for my Tech Ed 2006 to start.
I shelled out $350 for one of the pre-conference sessions, which start tomorrow morning. I have a vague recollection of being told somewhere/somehow that there would be pre-conference study materials. I have the time to study but nothing to study.
Anyone know where I should be poking? Tried TE CommNet, no joy. I've signed up for the "Architecture" sesssion. If someone knows what, if anything I should be studying, please holler.
Thanks,
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An enthusiastic "second" for mygeneration, as well as dOOdads, Mike Griffin's amazing object-relational mapping framework. I use both extensively with SQL Server and VS.NET 2005.
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ZippyV wrote:
You say that because you live in the US and not in Europe. There is a big difference for no reason at all.
You're right, I'm answering from my own experience. Regarding the EU: are there reasons for higher prices? One cause might be higher European taxes. Another might be Microsoft trying to avoid running afoul of EU restrictions regarding "undercutting" what is the accepted market price for software.
Is all software more expensive in the EU, or just Microsoft's?
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answering the question another way, no, I don't think microsoft charges too much at all, esp. compared with the practice of its competitors.
Consider OSs: Apple OSX has gone through four releases in the time xp has been released; I'd qualify at least one of those releases as a "paying beta". Apple has charged users for most of the upgrades. In the same period WinXP has been significantly revised several times; each of the upgrades have been free. I'm happier buying my OS once rather than three or four times.
Even at a few hundred bucks, Office seems like a decent deal to me: you're getting five or six well-developed applications, and you tend to use them every day for years.
We get SQL Server on academic discount at my workplace; even so, I'd pay the ~$2000 retail willingly if we had to. When I started using SQL Server in 2001, it was tens of thousands of dollars cheaper than competitor products.
ASP.NET 2 -- the app platform -- is free, and Microsoft just got finished giving us free full copies of SQL Server 2005 and VS.NET 2005.
Some of us really like the quality and consideration that goes into Microsoft's developer stuff. The fact that its much more affordable than competitor products is gravy.
-KF
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Honest question: why would the average customer choose to buy commidity software from a middleman, versus going to Costco/doing usability studies in Redmond/etc. ?
At my workplace we have authorized middlemen that sell hardware and services on behalf of Dell et. al. We save many thousands of bucks by ignoring them and hot-dealing it on newegg and Dell Small Business.
