The ASPSmith's Blog

News if you haven't heard, another application block has been released (actually a couple):

Bipin Joshi interviewed me (virtually) for his website, DotNetBips.com.  You may read the interview here if you're interested:

I've had enough people ask me for hosting advice lately to write up my thoughts in an article.  You can read about my experience with the people who make up ORCSWeb in this ASPAlliance article:

There are three features I wish ASP.NET tracing had out of the box:

I'm finally upgrading from OE to Outlook on the advice of Brian Tinkler of the Wisconsin .NET User Group (among many others over the past few years).  The main reason that I stuck with/chose OE over Outlook was that Outlook97 didn't have an easy way to select which FROM address to use for emails, and I was frequently switching between several POP3 accounts from several organizations.  OE had a nifty little dropdown, Outlook didn't.  Outlook97 combined with Visual Studio 1.0 also tended to totally slow down my P2-300 laptop that I had a few years back...

I spoke at the Wisconsin .NET User Group last night and had a good time.  A small part of my talk was on using NUnit to do unit testing and an introduction to Test Driven Development(TDD).  In the course of preparing my samples I upgrade to VS.NET 2003 from VS.NET 2002 and thus from .NET v1.0 to v1.1.  Unfortunately, I had a heck of a time getting NUnit to work after doing this, and was getting a security exception any time I tried to load a 1.1 compiled assembly.

DonXML has a cool article I just read on how to use Attributes to extend Enums to create strongly typed parameter objects for ADO.NET commands.  You can read the whole article here:

Aaron Seet posted a link to this very long and very detailed analysis of SCSI vs. IDE hard drives, which I'm posting here for others to reference and also so I know where the link is so I can finish this long article.