I have been using ie7 for a long time. But for most cases, i need to check out my applications in ie6 for cross browser circumstances. I used to make ie6 tests on an another machine which's browser is not upgraded to ie7. Yesterday i found this entry which ends this pain. After install it, you will be able to use all ie versions on the same machine. WinXP users will get the gift, but for some reason this software is not working properly on Vista.

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I'm using MySql server for the BlogEngine.NET back-end. Current version of the BlogEngine.NET supports XML and MS SQL as data storages. But my hosting plan has a limited option for MS SQL databases so i don't want to use it. And XML data provider option saves every post to individual files. Also i have some performance concerns about XML data storages. So i decide to use MySql. It's not very populer in ASP.Net community. But if you give it a chance, you will see how powerful and portable it is. I'm using MySql Connector/Net version 1.0, cause latest version of the connector has some trust level problems on Godaddy. Here are the steps that you need to follow for MySql data provider integration. (I'm assuming you're using BlogEngine.NET 1.2.x.x)

- Create a database and change connection string on the sql.config file.
   Download MySql Script (2.43 kb)

<connectionStrings>
<add name="BlogEngine" 
connectionString="Server=localhost; 
Port=3306; 
Database=databasename;
Uid=username;
Pwd='password';"
providerName="MySql.Data.MySqlClient" /> 
</connectionStrings>

- Add MySql Connector dll to BlogEngine.Core References
   Download MySql Connector (54.92 kb)

- Add MYSQLBlogProvider.cs file to Providers folder which on the BlogEngine.Core project. Download MYSQLBlogProvider (4.16 kb)

 

- Add MySql provider to BlogEngine's provider tag on the web.congfig file.

 That's all..You can press F5 and test it ;)

 

 

Class files may become bloated and difficult to read because of unnecessary and unorganized using directives.Visual Studio 2008 comes with a solition for this. Just right click anywhere on the class file, and you will see the "Organize Usings" on context menu. Hope it helps ;)

Steve Jobs's Commencement Speech at Stanford

You can point to a database on your local machine, and then automatically create a sql script file. This sql script includes everything needed to create the database data and schema (tables, views, sprocs, triggers, full-text catalogs, roles, rules, etc) . It's a painkiller future that you find very useful when publishing applications to remote machines.

I start to play with .Net framework 3.5 RTM. When i build my project which is developed with .net framework 3.5 beta 2 , i got some  weird linq errors. DataContext's add and remove methods causes these errors. These methods are renamed because they are confusing or misleading for many users. In linq model, until you call dataContext's SubmitChanges method nothing will removed or added even you previously mention it. Here is list of the changes :

Previous Method (VS Beta1 and VS Beta2)	Renamed Method (VS 2008 RTM)
Add()	InsertOnSubmit()
AddAll()	InsertAllOnSubmit()
Remove()	DeleteOnSubmit()
RemoveAll()	DeleteAllOnSubmit()

For other changes, please read  Dinesh Kulkarni's post.

Visual Studio 2008 is now available to download for MSDN subscribers.For non-MSDN subscribers it's possible to download trail editions.

Here is the download links of trails :

• Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite
• Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server
• Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition

Enjoy it ;)

 

On the client side, if i want to attach some function for page load event, i used to implement the window.onload event :

window.onload = func;

But this approach has some difficulties. Because this will completely overwrite any other functions that were attached. So I began to search for a better solition. After visiting some saint google links, i got the answer. window.addEventListener (for mozilla,gecko, safari and konqueror), window.attachEvent (for internet explorer) and document.addEventListener (for opera 7) methods can be used for attaching any kind of method in a safe way. All i need to wrap these nifty methods into a function. Here is the code snippet that you can use :

function AddOnload(func){
if(window.addEventListener) 
window.addEventListener('load', func, false);
else if(document.addEventListener)
document.addEventListener('load', func, false);
else if(window.attachEvent)
window.attachEvent('onload', func);
}

Happy codings ;)

Microsoft released a new poster  that provides a nice view of common types and namespaces in the .NET Framework 3.5. You can download a PDF version of the pster here.