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Microsoft vacation policy [Microsoft vacation policy]

phunky_avocado — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:30:01 GMT

As this is our little window into Microsoft, thought I share this:

I just got a note from my mole at MS that says her dept. just handed down a mandate saying employees need to give four weeks notice before taking a day off (e.g., a three day weekend) and one extra week for every additional day on top of that.

That's crazy if true. She wouldn't lie to me though.

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Quality Software Design [Quality Software Design]

phunky_avocado — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 23:56:32 GMT

There is a nice review of Delicious Library over at Ars Technica which hilights what good software design is all about. Microsoft and developers of Windows software could learn a thing or two.

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Media downloads failing after XP's SP2 [Media downloads failing after XP's SP2]

phunky_avocado — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 18:57:37 GMT

I have noticed that after installing XP's SP2, some video downloading (e.g., videos like the ones found on C9) via IE stops part way through and does not complete no matter what I do. I know it is not a firewall issues as the problem remains when the firewall is turned off.

Has anyone else had this problem and, more to the point, does anyone know what I need to do to resolve the issue?

Everyone is telling me to use FireFox but I don't want to abandon IE just yet.

Thanks.

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Hey, ASP.NET team... [Hey, ASP.NET team...]

phunky_avocado — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 20:57:31 GMT

...I am developing an ASP.NET app. I have extended the standard .NET validators and have a custom js file for my client-side validation. My validation scripts call the standard .NET validation scripts in WebUIValidation.js for the basic validation test; all that my scripts add is some custom "invalid data" notification UI.

The thing is, your validation scripts rely on MS DOM support in the client browser. So, for Safari, NN, Moz the standard .NET scripts fail (like, you cannot call "document.all[...]", "final" (assigned to in ValidationSummaryOnSubmit()) is a reserved word,... and who knows what else?).

So, maybe you could provide a non-MS DOM version of your WebUIValidation.js file and have your validation base class output javascript that is compliant with non-MS DOM-enabled browsers (currently, it outputs javascript that builds up an array of the validators on the page by using "document.all[...]").

So how 'bout it? Can we play fair with other browsers? As it stands, I have to go through the entire of WebUIValidation.js and "fix" it.

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ASP.NET Form validation [ASP.NET Form validation]

phunky_avocado — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 18:32:21 GMT

The built-in .NET validators only work in browsers that support ECMA Script 1.2 or greater and the Microsoft DOM. The former makes sense but the latter kinda sucks.

I created a bunch of validators that override the normal ASP.NET validator visible behaviours (I do more than just put a red message on the client).

I need to be able to validate when the user is using Netscape Navigator 7.2. It's the Microsoft DOM requirement that is getting in the way. Anyone know how to trick ASP.NET to think the browser is "uplevel" when according to Microsoft it is not?

Thanks.

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Hey Microsoft VisualStudio team... [Hey Microsoft VisualStudio team...]

phunky_avocado — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 20:21:44 GMT

...I have to do a lot of javascript programming for the current ASP.NET web app I am working on using Visual Studio 2003. I noticed that there is no intellisense support for javascript in VS2003, at least for javascript contained in separate *.js files (but there was intellisense support in VS 6). Now, maybe I have not yet found the magic preference setting to turn it on, but it seems to me that without intellisense support for javascript (and without more convenient javascript debugging, at least compared to what VS7 has now), ASP.NET cannot be a complete solution.

Will VS2005 have javascript intellisense support?

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VS.NET JavaScript Intellisense [VS.NET JavaScript Intellisense]

phunky_avocado — Fri, 03 Sep 2004 18:11:40 GMT

I searched the forum and did not find my answer. So...

I have noticed that Visual Studio .NET does not support intellisense for javascript (at least when the javascript code is in a separate *.js file). Is there a way to turn it on? I sure have not found it.

If not, then this is an overlooked feature that the VS developers need to address if ASP.NET is to be a complete solution.

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C# or VB.NET? Which would you use and why? [C# or VB.NET? Which would you use and why?]

phunky_avocado — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 19:09:15 GMT

I am just wondering: if you were starting a new project from scratch and you had a choice between using C# or VB.NET, which would you choose and why? Personally, I am not interested in replies like "Well, I was a VB6 programmer and so VB.NET is the natural choice for me" or "I come out of the C/C++ crowd and so C# makes the most sense for me." I am wondering if there is any technical or software life-cycle, etc., sorts of reasons. Thanks.

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