Andrew Huey | pointlessly blogging since 2001
The client callback mechanism in ASP.NET 2.0 was apparently changed during the beta, at some point after the book I’m reading was written. To their credit, O’Reilly covers this in a doc file posted on their site.
Also, this page at the quickstarts.asp.net site describes the current mechanism briefly, and this article on the MSDN site gives a bit more detail.
I was looking for something on eBay today, and stumbled across a very odd seller. He’s selling some pretty pedestrian stuff for really high prices.
I wonder if he just got the pricing wrong somehow, accidentally adding $1000 to everything. Or if this is part of some kind of weird plan, setting up an ID that’ll be used for a scam at some point.
The ASP.NET 2.0 book I’m reading has a simple example of using an ObjectDataSource bound to a GridView. I’m always a little suspicious of wizard-generated stuff like this, but I’m willing to give it a try. The example in the book did not actually work, though, and a few minutes of poking around didn’t reveal anything obvious that I’d missed.
This article has some good material on the ObjectDataSource. I suppose it’s something I’ll need to look into a bit more, in general.
I decided to give up on Vista for now. I restored the backup of my original XP install on my laptop. (Done with Acronis True Image, by the way.) I think if I had a much more powerful laptop, the Vista beta might be usable, but it’s just too slow on a 2-year-old Gateway machine, with 512 MB of RAM and a low-end video card.
I am still looking forward to the final release of Vista, but I doubt I’d upgrade either my desktop or laptop to Vista; I’ll need to wait until the next time I buy new machines.
This thing is great, but probably not worth $75.
The last time I mentioned ASP.NET 2.0 was probably the last time I did any work on it at home. I went to an MSDN event this week that talked about a couple of things in .NET 2.0, so that kind of got me interested in picking it up again. I worked through a bit more stuff today, basically GridView and DetailsView examples. I still have a lot to learn.
Meanwhile, I was listening to an episode of .Net Rocks this week, and the guest, who had been working in .Net 2.0, referred to that as the “old way”, and wished he could have been using the new stuff, like WCF and WF. I feel like I’m falling behind! We haven’t done much of anything with 2.0 in work yet. I’d really like to move a bunch of web stuff from ASP.NET 1.1 to 2.0, but it’s hard to find the time.
My car hit 123,456 miles this week. I wasn’t actually looking down at the odometer when it happened; I just noticed it was a bit past there after I got to work. It would have been cool (in a very geeky way) to snap a picture of the odometer reading “123456”.
One of the most annoying things about Vista so far is the plethora of UAC prompts. I thought I’d try to figure out how to turn off the warnings on CA’s anti-virus software, since a couple of these come up every time I start the computer. Apparently, it’s all or nothing right now — there’s no way to turn off the prompts for individual programs. (See this thread for some discussion on that.) If I was using Vista on my normal home computer, I’d probably get about 10 or 20 of these, given all the programs that load on startup.
I installed Windows Vista beta 2 on my laptop last night. I decided to try an upgrade install, which took quite a long while, and left me with a pretty slow and weird system. In particular, the wireless networking didn’t work at all right. (I hadn’t really expected much from that, but I thought I’d try it.)
I punted and did a clean install today, and that went a lot faster and has left me with a much more stable system. I had some inital problems with the wireless card recognizing my Airport Express base station, but it seems to be working now. (It’s an Intel Pro/Wireless 2100 3B Mini PCI.)
I also signed up for CA’s eTrust Anti-Virus free one-year trial subscription for Vista beta users. My usual AV software, F-Prot, probably doesn’t work in Vista.
Since I did a clean install, I don’t have any other software loaded yet. I may try the Office 2007 beta, or I may just stick with Office 2003. I’m not sure on that yet.
My laptop barely meets the requirements for Vista, so I’ve got none of the funky Aero Glass stuff going on; just the basic interface. It looks nice enough for now.
Assuming the system remains at least borderline usable, I’ll leave Vista on the machine and play around with it a bit over the next few weeks.
Film Forum in NYC will be doing something called Pythonalot in September and October. I’m hoping I can find time to get into the city and see a few Python (and Python-related) classics on the big screen!