Sunday, February 05, 2006
Moving the site to ASP.NET 2.0: Part 3
Posted on Sunday, February 05, 2006 1:22:47 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)  Comments [2] | 
Categories: .NET | General | ASP.NET
I had some more time this weekend, and have made some more progress on changing my site to ASP.NET 2.0. Overall, I must say that ASP.NET 2.0 rocks. As with most Microsoft development tools, it has  it's own somewhat weird way of doing things (I'm mainly talking about the theming & skinning stuff here), but if you play along, things are incredibly easy. Particularly simple is the Object Data binding. While I could not use it because I'm persisting data in XML files, and my constructors require the path to the XML file be passed in, if you are using a database, and have a parameterless constructor on your data objects, you can bind the control to the class/method without writing anything in the code-behind. Nice!

The secondary goal of this little project (improving my C#) is also coming along - probably just enough to make the VB.NET code I write Monday thru Friday a mess of { }'s and ()'s and ;'s... ;-)

Other Site additions:
  • Album Manager - create/edit/delete albums if you are logged in as Admin
  • Album & Photo viewers
  • Presentations section with content I've presented at various conferences
  • Bookshelf section where I'll keep breif overviews of books I've been reading (technical and fiction)
  • Small tweaks to the master page & css
I've uploaded the latest version to here - http://www.davebouwman.net/sandbox

Next up - getting dasBlog to play nice under a .NET 2.0 application folder.

Monday, March 06, 2006 2:42:44 AM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
Dave

Have you tried the Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Project Preview

Check these out:
+ Chris Sells Blog http://www.sellsbrothers.com/news/showTopic.aspx?ixTopic=1967

+ the comments here http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/02/16/438354.aspx

+ Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Project Preview http://webproject.scottgu.com/

Adam
www.ssw.com.au
Adam Cogan
Monday, March 06, 2006 2:44:21 AM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
Dave

I wanted to ask you a question... What is your email address?

Adam
www.ssw.com.au
Adam Cogan
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