.Net and Some (may be MORE) Random Thoughts

I have pulled in few resources on couple of ways we could databind an XML file to a Data-Bound controls using XmlDataSource.
Basically the idea is to be able to bind an XML file, either a physical XML file or XML formatted String using XMLDataSource.
1) This article from MSDN talks about how to bind an external (physical) [...]

Yesterday, I have installed Vista and my Internet stopped working. You could find that post here.
The problem is not with Vista but with the Security Software I am using, Live OneCare from MS.
Apparently there is a problem with OneCare firewall that prevents Internet connection
The solution I found out was
“The only solution I have found so far [...]

I wanted to play with the Orcas Beta and really don’t want to mess up my existing dev environment. I am running Vista 64 Bit Ultimate with reasonable configuration. I dual boot my laptop with Vista 64 and XP MCE. Since I have not used/logged in to my XP in a long time, I thought [...]

I found this An Introduction to JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) in JavaScript and .NET article to be very useful especially if you are new to JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
Explore some of the Object Oriented Techniques of JavaScript, check this MSDN article, http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/05/JavaScript/default.aspx, by Ray Djajadinata (Ray Hsieh).
Happy Scripting!!!

I have been working my laptop for few hours and each operation is becoming painfully slow. Looked in to the Task Manager to see if there is anything unusual!
I have my Visual Studio 2005 open with 2 IE windows with each about 6-7 tabs.
My Visual Studio is taking about 56,000K and Each IE about 30,000K. [...]

I use a Url Rewriting a lot and ran into this problem very offen. There are multiple solutions to this issue and basically we would be manipulating the “post” action of the web page.
Here is a link that talks about a more elegent approch to solove this problem, Postbacks does not work with URL ReWriting.
http://weblogs.asp.net/jezell/archive/2004/03/15/90045.aspx
EDIT: please see [...]

Want to Start Visual Studio 2005 Development Server at a specific port everytime? Or use IIS for a Web Application?
And want to set what debuggers to attach (ASP.NET, SQL Server, Native Code)?

Check the below images for options under Web project properties..
 
Hope it helps…

Over the past week i have been working on a conversion (.NET 1.1 to 2.0) project. It started as fun and turned out to be little tedious !!!
First of all, its a big solution with around 25 projects (both C# and VB.NET) and quite a good amount of ASP code, doing various tasks…
The first part of [...]