Rob Garrett - Blogs

January 2006 - Posts

• Dilbert

  Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! Read More... Posted Monday, January 30, 2006 5:26 PM by Rob Garrett | 1 Comments

• LUA and Windows XP

  For those of you that read my blog often (or talk to me directly), you'll know that I am constantly advocating that users operate their computers under a least-privileged user account - LUA. Many have taken my advice, of not running day-to-day operations Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 25, 2006 8:06 AM by Rob Garrett | 2 Comments

• NOAA Weather Service and .NET

  I have been fighting with the national weather web service, provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , today. Like a lot of developers, who like to make their web sites fancy with the current weather forecast, I have been developing Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 24, 2006 4:24 PM by Rob Garrett | 35 Comments

• .NET RTM 2.0 Bug

  Eek, this is pretty bad.... http://codebetter.com/blogs/sahil.malik/archive/2006/01/19/136771.aspx Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! Read More... Posted Thursday, January 19, 2006 4:49 PM by Rob Garrett | 1 Comments

• MCTS, MCIP, MCPD, and MCA

  Phew! So many acronyms. I mentioned in an earlier post about gaining a Microsoft Certification, and had originally set my sights on an MSCD. With the release of the 2.0 .NET platform, the certifications are changing. So I'm going to dive in and shoot Read More... Posted Friday, January 13, 2006 1:15 PM by Rob Garrett | 4 Comments

• Visual Studio Team System

  I was at the DC launch for Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 yesterday, and was fortunate enough to sit through a few talks on Visual Studio Team System . So naturally, I now want to install the server (VSTS) - currently in Beta 3 - and hook Visual Read More... Posted Thursday, January 12, 2006 4:14 PM by Rob Garrett | 4 Comments

• MSDN Downloads on Steriods

  How to speed up MSDN downloads. Thanks for the tip Ed... http://emooers.blogspot.com/2005/11/speeding-up-msdn-downloads.html Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 10, 2006 8:05 PM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments

• WebResource.axd

  Winform applications have been using resources (embedded images etc) for some time. .NET allows developers to embed binary files into assemblies, which can later be retrieved by code at runtime. ASP.NET is no exception. How many times have you written Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 04, 2006 11:13 AM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments

• Web Design Templates

  Good at web site development, but design challenged? Not to worry, Microsoft has come to the rescue with free design templates: http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/reference/design/templates/ Thanks to Andrew Duthie . Share this post: Email it! | bookmark Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 03, 2006 10:44 PM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments