Refresh File (VS 2005)

While working with a web site and some solution item references I came a cross a situation that I was not able to tell where the web site saved the reference to the solution items,
I search everywhere Solution file + Web.config and nothing came up, than I remembered that I saw a file with extension ".Refresh" under the Bin/ inside it there was the address of the DLL that was reference.
After investigating some more (with the help a fellow colleague- Evyatar Ben Shitrit) we found that the VS 2005 deals with reference who are our of the project directory by writing the reference into a refresh file that is auto populated (because there is no web project – this is the best solution)
* Don’t forget that you have to add the file to the source control.
Look at the following article about Web Project Settings Conversion for more details.

Session View state (1.1 VS 2.0)

1.0
Implementing a different save medium for the viewstate in 1.1 was not so easy because you had to: http://aspalliance.com/72

2.0
But now using 2.0 you get out of the box SessionStatePersistent for the view state and an easy way of configuring it:http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.pagestatepersister.aspx

• During my tests i was unable to activate it (but maybe it just a bug) - I will keep you posted.
• If you have any success or failure please comment on it.

Enjoy

Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar

The Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides several features for exploring and understanding Web pages. These features enable you to:

• Explore and modify the document object model (DOM) of a Web page.
• Locate and select specific elements on a Web page through a variety of techniques.
• Selectively disable Internet Explorer settings.
• View HTML object class names, ID's, and details such as link paths, tab index values, and access keys.
• Outline tables, table cells, images, or selected tags.
• Validate HTML, CSS, WAI, and RSS Web feed links.
• Display image dimensions, file sizes, path information, and alternate (ALT) text.
• Immediately resize the browser window to a new resolution.
• Selectively clear the browser cache and saved cookies. Choose from all objects or those associated with a given domain.
• Choose direct links to W3C specification references, the Internet Explorer team weblog
• (blog), and other resources.
• Display a fully featured design ruler to help accurately align objects on your pages.
• The Developer Toolbar can be pinned to the Internet Explorer browser window or floated separately.

This is truly a must tool for developer and for GUI designer as well.
You can download it from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e59c3964-672d-4511-bb3e-2d5e1db91038&displaylang=en

I will keep this blog updated for any new version that will be out there.

VISIO Stencil and Template for UML 2.0

If you are one of the users that use UML to design using VISIO than I bet you getting crazy because VISIO doesn't support many aspect of UML 2.
Well I found a very good site that has a hand made stencil that has all you need for UML 2.0.
So download it and enjoy (you can also contribute to the maker using pay pal).

* Note that this stencil is for sketching only - it doesnt support the UML semantics under visio

Building ASP.NET 2.0 Web Sites Using Web Standards

I found a simple but good article in the MSDN that describe how to Build ASP.NET 2.0 Web Sites Using Web Standards.

Enjoy

Take full control over your returned control and bandwidth

A friend of mine has designed and created a very good framework that enables the asp.net developer to take full control over his return html with a single line of code.
The project is called ZumiPage, I personally think that this is a must assembly for every asp.net developer.
I encourage you to enter the site and see the demo www.zumipage.com.

Highlighted features in zumiPage 2.0:

• Works with ASP.NET 2.0 & 1.1
• Fully compatible with Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.
• Save up to 90% of the traffic.
• Easy to integrate with existing projects.
• Fast, invisible XmlHttp postbacks.
• Full control over returned controls on each postback.
• Wait behaviors (for server loading times).

Enjoy

Changes from .NET Framework Beta2 to RTM

This document is intended for developers who have upgraded from the .NET Framework version 2.0 (Beta 2) to the .NET Framework version 2.0 release (RTM) and Visual Studio 2005 (Beta 2) to Visual Studio 2005 (RTM).
This document provides descriptions of changes that might cause incompatibilities, information about ways to modify your applications to work around incompatibilities, and information about how to test and run your applications using the .NET Framework version 2.0. This document also provides a list of issues you may encounter while upgrading your development tools from the Beta 2 release of Visual Studio 2005 to the RTM release.

Regards

http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/3/8/e38818ae-31e5-462b-b9ad-e6d3cd6ad7c1/Breaking%20Changes%20Beta2%20to%20RTM.doc

Visual Studio 2005 Web Deployment Projects (Beta Preview)

Well for all you WEB Developers who are using VS 2005 This is a must article.
Visual Studio 2005 Web Deployment Projects (Beta Preview)

Download it and create a truly professional deployment project.
I think that this kind of project should have been dispatched 2 months ago.
Have fun :)

A sneak picture of me

Finally I did it.

Hi, I have just created my first blog,
For quite a while I have been thinking of openning one and finally I done it.

So stay tuned :)