Robert McLaws: FunWithCoding.NET

Just stumbled across this article on Yahoo! News. It’s entitled “Microsoft AJAX framework forges ahead in spite of difficulties”. A quote:

So last night, I had this really random idea to create an OpenSearch Provider for LonghornBlogs.com. That way I could search my site from IE7's search box. In the process, I discovered that my search is broken there, so I decided to create them for several of the main Microsoft community sites instead:

My HomentumRealty.com e-mail address no longer works. If anyone's trying to contact me, please use my InterscapeUSA.com e-mail address instead. Thanks guys!

Microsoft’s homepage for the new Visual Studio Team Suite edition says that the CTP will be available on June 11^th, 2006. But it’s June 12^th, 2006, and nary a word from Microsoft. So where is the CTP?

Ever since Telligent updated weblogs.asp.net to CommunityServer 2.1, I’ve been anxious to try blogging from Word 2007. But the directions in the “Help” link in Word 2007 are incorrect. Fortunately, Chris Garrett already found the solution: the correct MetaBlog API URL is http://weblogs.asp.net/blogs/metablog.ashx. Woo hoo!

Well, my two-year stint for the real estate company I was working for is over, and I'm back to consulting again. It is a welcome change for me, because educating my business partners on technology was a daily exercise in futility.

I have a scenario where I think I've found a bug in the SiteMap API in ASP.NET 2.0. The scenario is this:

Want to use an image instead of a text label to trigger the expanding/collapsing events of an "Atlas" CollapsiblePanel? You still use a "Label" control for the trigger, but you switch it up a bit by setting the "ExpandText" and "CollapseText" properties to the HTML code for an image, like this: