http://peterkellner.net Software Consultant Specializing in Community Based Applications Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:34:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, I'm at MVP Summit in Redmond and last night, while talking with Scott Guthrie, he was telling us about his Technorati rank, and how he had millions of references. My understanding is Technorati is basically a search engine for blogs. So, I must join!. ... http://peterkellner.net/2008/04/16/spreading-the-word-with-technorati/   Several people have asked for the executable files for the tivo summaries program I wrote a few months back.  Here is a link to the original article and some gratuitous pictures of the results the program produces. ... http://peterkellner.net/2008/04/07/tivosummariesexe/   Windows Powershell is something I've been meaning to learn for quite some time.  It started out as the Monad Project at Microsoft and I remember seeing it discussed at Code Camps but never spending the time to go.  I thought it was just another command.com with special commands. ... http://peterkellner.net/2008/04/07/windowspowershellbookreview/   So, this may seem simple, but for an hour I wrestled with displaying images on IIS7 with vista.  ASP.NET worked fine, but no static files, css, jpg's, gif's or anything.  Just unformatted text. Turns out when I added the web server in vista, I forgot to check ... http://peterkellner.net/2008/04/01/iis7imageproblem/   During the past couple years, I've participated as an expert in several ask the expert sessions.  Typically what happens is a bunch of as MVP's and Regional Directors for different Microsoft technologies get together at a certain time and date (on a phone call) and work together to ... http://peterkellner.net/2008/03/30/another-aspnet-ask-the-experts-session-coming-may-1st-2008/   I have to admit, I actually wanted to get on the bus.  About 40 people came to see the majestic CodeTrip bus take off today (Thursday night) from the Venetian's parking garage.  As the Silicon Valley Code Camp guy, I have to say, I get it.  These guys ... http://peterkellner.net/2008/03/06/thecodetriplaunch/   Beth did a great job of presenting new features in Visual Studio 2008 at the Bay.Net Meeting in San Francisco.  Her focus was Visual Basic.  Most of the features she presented will work in both C# and VB.  Lots of LINQ stuff.  What really surprised me was the ... http://peterkellner.net/2008/03/05/banetvb9/ I'll be a host/moderator online between 6AM and 8AM today (thursday).  I'll be answering questions regarding visual studio 2008.  Please feel free to join in on the chat!  Here is the URL: http://www.microsoft.com/communities/chats/chatrooms/vep3.aspx   If you are interested in the other products that are part of the ... http://peterkellner.net/2008/02/28/mslaunchevent2008/ The Typical Way When you first create an asp.net project a file is usually created in your root web directory called web.config.  By default there are two (usually empty) sections in the file.  One for appSettings, and one for connectionStrings.  Below is a default project created with visual studio 2008 and ... http://peterkellner.net/2008/02/23/webconfigbestpractice/ So, you are a Repeater wizard like me and now you want more.  Remember that in Repeater, the templates you can use are as follows: With the new ListView, you have lots more choices as follows:   Lots of reasons to start using the ListView.  Just ... http://peterkellner.net/2008/02/18/listviewrepeaternotes/