Cool Programming

Upgrade to .NET 2.0

Tue, 14 Feb 2006 19:53:04 GMT

This last weekend, I upgrading the production Rmail servers to include .NET 2.0. The results of this should be read by someone at Microsoft, who should in turn kick a cow-orker. Here's the steps.

Type ".net 2.0 download" at Google.
First result is unavailable.
Second result was for Beta 2, not the production release. I found this out only after a full hour installation was complete, which meant a complete uninstall and restart.
Oh there's the real .net 2.0 download. << supplied Google juice to make this the #1 result in the future.
Another full hour installation complete.
It works!

Googlepark: The Spaghetti Code

Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:41:15 GMT

Check out the latest installment of Googlepark.

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=162360

HTTP 301 Redirect in ASP.NET

Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:24:23 GMT

Took a few Google searches to find this. How TODO an HTTP 301 permanent redirect in ASP.NET.

Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently";
Response.AddHeader("Location", "http://www.new-url.com");

http://www.bigbold.com/snippets/posts/show/1295

.NET XPath preceding-sibling following-sibling

Thu, 02 Feb 2006 18:09:32 GMT

I tried adding a Next Previous buttons to one of my blogs. As the layout of my blogs is done by applying an XSLT to the RSS, I dreamed up the following code.

<xsl:if test="following-sibling::item">
   <span style="font-size:x-small;">
      <xsl:element name="a">
         <xsl:attribute name="href">
            <xsl:value-of select="following-sibling::item[position()=1]/guid"/>
         </xsl:attribute>
         <xsl:text><< Previous</xsl:text>
      </xsl:element>
   </span>
</xsl:if>

My blog became unresponsive. Removing the code and things returned to normal. This was the first time I used following-silbing in .NET 1.1. It would seem to need a bit of optimizing. I pray that was done for .NET 2.0.