Phil Scott's WebLog

So I just watched the video (thanks Julia) for the VB.NET Whidbey.  My ears hurt from the scretching, and my eyes hurt from squinting, and I had a good chuckle at how easy those smart tags are working :)

Does anybody have a recommendation for a tool like InfoPath, but for the web?  ASP.NET, ASP.OLD, PHP, Perl, whatever.  We get a lot of questions like this: "We need to create a survey on our website that would put data into our blah blah blah database.  What class should I take?"  And the answer is never easy.  We are talking like power users of Excel or Frontpage.  But even still, in my head I know I could knock that out in probably three hours in ASP.NET.  But it would take someone at least 6 months of hard work to get to even a beginning understanding of ASP.NET, ADO.NET and C#/VB.NET. 

I have a small favor to ask to those on the (not) echo group.  Can we call "feeds" wafers.  Like necho wafers.  That would really make my day. 

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/1234206

It appears Safari is adding a lot of Que's training guide books, including Mike's 70-310 training guide.  In the past two weeks I think I've gotten at least seven people to sign up from my classes at work.  I wish I would have given them another shot earlier than I did.

http://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx

Edit Big Time: Setting e.Cancel = false in the form closing event actually let's you exit the program.  Go figure.  And I feel like an idiot for not figuring this out sooner.  Is today still Monday or something?

Ok, I give.  If you set e.Cancel = true in a validating event (for a textbox for example), how can you make it so the form can be closed?  Like clicking the X or even calling me.Close.