For the past week I’ve had a nasty sinus infection I couldn’t shake, so today I finally got the doctor to give me some antibiotics. Hopefully they will bring me back to life soon. Anyway, since lack of energy kept me from posting anything interesting lately, I decided to do something easy. :) Today I …
A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected…
In response to my post Why runat="server" for ASP.NET?, Talbott Crowell of Microsoft National Services tried to post the following comment: I understand your point, but the importance of [runat="server"] is more for consistancy and extensibility. If the developer has to mark some tags some ways (ie an [<asp:] prefix) and in other cases using …
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Different Component Vendors for Different Developers?
When I started VBxtras in 1994, it was partly because I felt component software was too expensive and I wanted to do something about it. Why? If I couldn’t afford to use it as an independent developer, it was too expensive. I sense Robert McLaws has similar views to the ones I had in 94 …
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What Responsibility the Component Vendor? Part 2, or Subscriptions vs. Bugs
Robert McLaws responded to my post from yesterday about the responsibility of component vendors. Robert’s comment reflected his view as a vendor (Robert sells components too, though my company hasn’t currently established a relationship with his company via Xtras.Net for no other reason than I just learned about his products.) Robert states: I believe that …
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What Responsibility the Component Vendor?
I just read a disturbing post over at Robert McLaws‘ blog about ComponentOne. Full disclosure for those of you who are unaware, I run a component reseller that sells ComponentOne’s products as well as many vendors. Our websites are located at Xtras.Net and VBxtras. Robert was upset because he had received a free copy of …
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Cool Free Tool: WebDeploy for ASP.NET
Matt Hawley of eWorld.UI has posted what appears to be a pretty cool tool called Web Deploy for ASP.NET. Check it out.