Posts by Jeff Prosise

This weekend our club held its twice-annual float fly, and today we witnessed a spectacular crash which I happened to get a snapshot of just as the plane hit the water. I’m not sure what kind of plane it was. Someone said it was built from a 1956 kit. The plane was big–probably 8 feet…

I’m currently working on an extremely cool project for the ASP.NET team: building an ASP.NET 2.0 provider toolkit. The provider architecture is one of ASP.NET 2.0’s most important new features, IMHO. The team decided that if the architecture wasn’t documented well, developers would shy away from writing custom providers or, worse, produce buggy providers. So…

I forgot to mention one of the most obvious changes in ASP.NET 2.0 beta 2: the fact that the “special” directory names changed. The Code directory is now named App_Code, Resources is named App_GlobalResources, LocalResources is named App_LocalResources, and so on. Speaking of resources, the Page methods named GetAppResourceObject and GetPageResourceObject, which can be used…

Devscovery got off to a rollicking start today with Jeffrey Richter coining a new term for suboptimal code. Jeffrey compared the performance of for loops, foreach loops, and Whidbey’s new ForEach loops. foreach turned in the worst performance and was described by Jeffrey as “poo” code. Time will tell whether the new term catches on.

I spent a good deal of time last week updating all my ASP.NET 2.0 beta 1 code samples for beta 2. A LOT of stuff changed, so I compiled the following list to help others who are going down the same path. The list is by no means comprehensive, but it does document some of…

I’m off to the airport in a few minutes for Washington, D.C. and Devscovery. I’ve enjoyed having most of the last two weeks at home, although I did make 1-day trips to New York City and Springfield, MO. This week should be fun because the caliber of attendees at Devscovery is generally very high. Plus,…

While waiting on Whidbey beta 2 bits to finish downloading this morning, I took my R/C warbirds out to the driveway and snapped some pics. This is the first time all three of them have been in flying condition at the same time. In this shot, you can see my P-51D Mustang in the foreground,…

My old friend Steve Manes is at it again. He and I were columnists together years ago at PC Magazine, and when I go to Redmond during baseball season, he and I often get together and go to Mariners games. He went on to write for the New York Times, Forbes magazine, PC World, and…

Yesterday was a long day. I got up at 4:15 a.m., drove to the airport, and caught a 5:50 a.m. flight to LaGuardia. I cabbed into the city and did two talks on ASP.NET 2.0 at the Microsoft Financial Services Conference. Then I met Charles Petzold and MSDN Magazine’s Stephen Toub for dinner, returned to…

It’s official: Whidbey beta 2 is out. You can download beta 2 of Visual Web Develeper from http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/getvwd/. It’s time to begin porting all that beta 1 code to beta 2, or to dive into Whidbey if you weren’t on the bandwagon with beta 1.