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January 2006 - Posts

• Test Your HTML with the W3C Markup Validation Service

  A co-worker asked me today about an issue in a Web app in which pages display correctly in IE 6.0 but incorrectly in IE 5.5. He could duplicate the problem in IE 6.0 by changing the page's <DOCTYPE> tag. Sometimes issues like this are due to rendering Read More... Posted Sunday, January 29, 2006 9:40 PM by Thomas | 1 Comments Filed under: Development

• Don't Change the BizTalk SSO Service Account -- Or Else

  Helpful hint du jour -- if you know what's good for you, don't change the service account of your master BizTalk 2004/06 Enterprise Single Sign On service. If you insist on doing so, make SURE you have backed up your master secret first! As you may know, Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 17, 2006 8:15 PM by Thomas | 1 Comments Filed under: BizTalk

• Enterprise Library for .NET 2.0 Finally Arrives!

  Updated 1/20/2006 I hope you're not still using the Microsoft Data Access Block and sibling Blocks in your code. If you are, I hope you have a good excuse! Microsoft released Enterprise Library for .NET 1.1 about a year ago to replace the old Blocks. Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 17, 2006 8:00 PM by Thomas | (Comments Off) Filed under: Development

• Share and Synchronize Files for Free, Courtesy of Microsoft

  With Microsoft buying up companies and not always merging them into the Microsoft brand, it's easy to miss some great Microsoft services. In November 2005, Microsoft purchased FolderShare , a service for synchronizing and sharing files across multiple Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 10, 2006 9:32 PM by Thomas | (Comments Off) Filed under: General

• Update for Visual Studio 2003 to 2005 Web Project Conversion Wizard

  For those of you thinking about upgrading a Visual Studio.NET 2003 ASP.NET 1.1 Web project to Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0, Microsoft recently released an updated version of the Visual Studio 2005/Visual Web Developer 2005 Web Project Conversion Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 04, 2006 6:13 PM by Thomas | (Comments Off) Filed under: Development

• SharePoint Portal Server 2003 SP2, or How Not to Design a Service Pack

  Microsoft released SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2 ) in October 2005, following the weeks-earlier release of Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack 2 (SP2 ). I was hoping to get .NET Framework 2.0 installed on our SPS Web server for Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 03, 2006 6:51 PM by Thomas | (Comments Off) Filed under: Development