ClickOnce: Beyond The Basics

I went to this session to finally find out more information about ClickOnce, I had kept hearing about it at previous TechEds but never used it. A few weeks back I wanted to use it for a project but oddly enough didn’t find out very much information on it. I thought it was supposed to be integrated with Visual Studio. As it turns out it’s the “Publish” method in Visual Studio.

ClickOnce allows .NET applications to be deployed via a web browser. Application will be installed into the user’s local app directory (Document Settings\Local Settings) and once installed into a folder that is created, can’t access any files outside of its sandboxed directory.

Security access is controlled but the .NET Code Access Security. This is the security model that defines certain permissions based on the browsers internet zone. However, most useful application need to be given Full Trust to access resour ...

The penultimate day...

In case anyone has been wondering where all this stuff takes place...

Architecture Decisions: DataSets or Objects

Birds Of a Feather: DotNetNuke 4.0

Well let me start with a quick blub about my adventures last night at the birds of a feather meeting at 9PM in the food hall. The session started off on a bad note when Shawn Walker, creator and leader of DotNetNuke didn’t show up. He was in New York& ...

Ever Wondered how big Tech Ed was? Here’s the dinning hall? It was filled at one point and not everyone eats at the same time.

Windows SharePoint Services (version 3) Development 2: ASP.NET, Web Parts, Master Pages, Field Types, and More

This session went over the low level architecture of SharePoint version 3. It’s predecessor was built almost as a hack around the ASP.NET runtime and that resulted in many issues. Now SharePoint is built on top of the ASP.NET 2.0 runtime using best practices that have developed.

The base of all SharePoint site is based on Master pages. By changing the default template you can change all of ...

So in less than 48 hours now I'll be in Boston, MA. I haven't started packing, I have a million and one erans to run before I leave, what else is new. It's always exciting when the extra erans I hadn't planned for show up too. I was atempting to take a red eye Sunday night in order to accomidate the things I needed to acomplish but it wasn't to be. From the time I get off work tonight until 5am Sunday morning when I wake up to get ready and leave for the airport, it should be a fun time.

I did however get to see this, an early preview of the TechEd 2006 bag. I think it looks useable so I'm going to find away to not take a laptop bag so that I don't have to try and smash an extra bag into my luggage for the trip home like I do every other year. I'm more of a fan of backpacks these days, but I'm sure it'll make due as long as it is of sturdier construction than last years bag.

Lately I've been trying to follow Eddie Lopez's blog "User Centered", as Eddie studies the designs of everyday items from a user's point of view.

Well being more technical, everyday things for me sometimes include technology. And today I finally reached a point where something just got me wondering, is this just me, or is this not intuitive. As a software engineer I've used a broad range of developer based software. This differs from end user software because developer focused software is intended to only be used by software developers. The lexicon of programming, and the symbols u ...