News for the mobile users :

Next monday on the 3GSM World Congres, Microsoft will officially announce the new Windows Mobile version.  More info and a few screenshots can be read here.

For me the most interesting part is that .Net Compact Framework and SQL Server is now build in in Windows Mobile.

I'm going to try and run it on my Pocket PC (I hope that everything will go fine with this upgrade).

At this moment I’m busy with creating a windows service with following specifications:

• Host a web service in this windows service without using IIS
• On one site the communication uses TCP Sockets
• On the other site the communication uses SOAP messages
• Above all of this, the whole thing must work Asynchronous.

Yesterday in my RSS Feeds, I came to an interesting site for using this in ASP.Net.  Just follow this link http://gbarnett.org/archive/2007/02/08/asynchronous-programming-in-asp-net.aspx.

Yesterday I attend the 2 sessions presented by Scott Guthrie @ the Visug event.  The first one was about asp.net "Orcas", in his second presentation Scott gives us several tips and tricks for ASP.Net 2.0 and ASP.Net AJAX.

The sessions where a hugh success.  More than 200 people where there.  Hope to see some pictures soon on the Visug website.

Txs to Visug for organizing this free event.  Hope to see more of such events in the future.

Update :

1. The first pictures of the event are online @ the Visug site.
2. Find the whole presentation about Orcas online @ the blog of Tom Mertens
3. Or click below to see the video directly.

Scott Guthrie's First Look at Visual Studio "Orcas"

From now on, you can buy Windows Vista.  Although only with a new computer, upgrade users have to wait till march-april.  Also Office 2007 is released.

Bill Gates has celebrate the launch from Times Square in New York City.  You can view a webcast of this event :

• 500K
• 220K
• 100K

BTW : Microsoft has a new page just for Windows Vista.  Go to http://windowsvista.com/ for a nice visit .

The new Dev & IT Pro days are arriving. More info can be found here.

 

For the first time, Scott Guthrie will come to Belgium.

Read more and register @ the VISUG website.

I had reinstalled my PC, and I want to add my own code snippets back in VS2005, only they are located on a location that differs from the standard location for code snippets.  So normally you would go to the code snippet manager (Under the tools menu) and you can add your snippets from a different location.

But now the code snippet manager is missing in the tools menu.

You can add the command back by going into Tools/Customize, Click on the Commands Tab, select the Tools Menu, and drag the Code Snippets Manager onto any command bar that you like.

Introduction

The web project model changed in a number of ways between VS 2003 and VS 2005. You just still have two options, namely “In Place Compilation” and “Site Precompilation”.  The first one is the default and standard compilation method.  It’s also the only one, standard provided by the setup project.

In Place Compilation:
ASP.Net 2.0 will compiles each page on first use.  This means that when creating a setup, your .cs/.vb files will also deployed.  However, it’s very easy to use in development stage.

Site Precompilation:
This will precompile your complete site.  To do this you have to use a new utility: ASPNET_COMPLER. 

aspnet_compiler –f –v /whatsnewinaspnet c:\temp\deploy

After the compilation you will also find .compiled files.  These are marker files and should not be deleted.

The last option is, in our opinion, the best. With this option, no .CS files are deployed.

More info can found here:

http://west-wind.com/weblog/posts/2128.aspx
http://www.odetocode.com/Articles/417.aspx

Lucky for us, Microsoft has also seen that sites are deployed in a very different way than “In Place Compilation”.  So they have released a new kind of Web Deployment Project as an add-in. This add-on provides a lot of additional deployment features and capabilities that complement the built-in web project support in the product.

The VS 2005 Web Deployment Project download adds a number of features that integrate nicely inside VS 2005 including:

1. Control the number of assemblies generated by the pre-compiled web project
2. Customize the web.config at deployment
3. Use the full power of MSBuild
4. …

You find the installation of the add-on on following location http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/reference/infrastructure/wdp/default.aspx

For a complete walk-through using the VS 2005 Web Deployment Project, I can only recommend the article "VS 2005 Web Deployment Projects" on ScottGu's blog.

Why do you need them? We could give you a short answer about this. When developing several projects in a company, you want them to have the same look. So, just like me, for every new project you copy files, code, etc from a previous project. The danger is that in the first place you forgot some items and then you have to add them later. This all takes up a lot of work. You could help yourself and your team by creating a project template. When this template is installed you can use it, just like when you start to create a new project with one of the standard templates.