Yesterday I upgraded my shared hosting plan to ASP.NET 2.0 / SQL Server 2005 and I registered a new domain name for my forthcoming site. Originally I signed my ASP.NET 1.1 / SQL Server 2000 plan last year with Crystaltech, but I never had time to do anything with it. Also .NET 2.0 was released and SQL Server 2005 came out and I thought that it would be time to upgrade. So plan was upgraded, but the web host stays the same.

 

So do I have time and motivation to build my site now ? Yes !!! Well, time is of course a limited asset but motivation is very high. And as I mentioned, I also registered a domain name, dotnetfilter.com. Perhaps later this week I activate my domain so that requests for dotnetfilter.com are redirected to my MSN Spaces -blog. But eventually I'll redirect the requests to my new site when it's ready.

 

If I look at my schedule now, my new site should be ready sometime September (I hope!). So there are still few months to go with my Spaces -account. Although Spaces offers an easy way to host and maintain my blog, I'd llike to build a blog all by myself. By that way I can learn so much more from ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005.

 

I'll probably change my blogging style too. I have been thinking of running a .NET link blog. I think that lately that's what my blogging has mainly been. It's pretty much links with just couple of sentences commenting what the link is all about. So instead of chitchat, posting just the links would do the same thing. But that would mean that posts would include much more link stuff at once, not just one. And if I move to purely to link blog format, then I have to consider my publishin policy too. Perhaps it's not on daily basis like so far.

 

Well, there are still lot's of questions in the air, but I think that most of them are answered in couple of months.

 

Anyway, remember dotnetfilter.com. It will be activated soon. I'll post more details when that happens.

I must admit I haven't used HttpHandlers that much, but Karl Seguin has some advice on the topic. I think that the best part of the article is what issues they resolve and why you should use them (and why not).

New book release from O'Reily: Atlas UpdatePanel Control. 56 pages. PDF-format. I might even consider buying this book as it costs only 9,99 $.

Via Jon Galloway's blog I found another fantastic one: Ayende's blog, which I subscribed immediately.

 

Lot's of posts with great technical content. Check it out.

IIS.NET: Blogs, forums, news, downloads ... Very comprehensive resource of Internet Information Services 7.0.

There has been already many posts in various blogs about this cool little app (by Red Gate) for SQL Server, SQL Prompt, which brings IntelliSense support to your Query Analyzer.

 

Anyway, this app is now free download until September 1st. And according to Red Gate's web site "No time-boms, no restrictions".

 

Downloaded. Installed.

Xlinq Portal - stuff about Xlinq. Although I mentioned in a LINQ post sometime ago that this stuff is too early for me to learn, it's good to keep yourself informed what is happening in this space too.

 

Next update of this blog on May 26th.

Handy instructions for setting up the Atlas support for your applications.

 

I'm going to need this info since I'm moving towards my first Atlas-enabled app soon. 

Yet another list to check if you are dealing with a proper coding standards or not.

Site which provides Atlas examples built on Atlas January CTP.

 

And oh, no updates tomorrow. It's party time !!! I have invited my collagues to celebrate my new apartment. So the next time I'll be updating this space is on Saturday.

Channel 9 has an new video of Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere. Scoble interviews Mike Harsh, program manager of WPF/E team.

Some signs of a crappy programmer listed here. Prorabaly there are other things too that would make to the list  but that's a good start :)

Introductory article how to use ASP.NET with LINQ. This is definately way too advanced stuff for me right now, because I'm just getting my hands dirty with ADO.NET 2.0. Anyway, it's nice to know a little bit what's coming in the future.

Very neat way of obfuscating (not encrypting) your QueryStrings. At least this makes more difficult to figure out what data is passed from a page to another.

Tips how to create a BasePage for all your pages to share. This way you can add common functionality to every page of your application with ease.

I'm truly looking forward to receive this book soon. I know that Amazoin has sent it already but I haven't received it yet.

 

So, working my way towards Master Mechanic level. Not there even remotely, but eventually some day - I hope :)

 

BTW, doing some travelling, so no updates tomorrow.

Channel 9 interviews ADO.NET team and they discuss what new is coming in the next version of ADO.NET. This video is 55 minutes long.

VS 2005 Web Application Project is available for download. Bringing back the Visual Studio 2003 style.

60 more AJAX tutorials by Max Kiesler. Max has listed 60 AJAX tutorials on his blog divided to various categories.

 

Some truths about .NET - Murphy's Law applied to .NET world