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June 4th, 2008

Bill Gates Out of Day-to-Day on July 1st

It seems we’ve been hearing about it now for years, but as of July 1st Bill Gates will no longer be involved in the day-to-day operations of the company he built over 33 years ago.
In his last public speech, he speaks to developers about the past 33 years and some of the products we’ll be […]

By Jason Bean -- 2 comments

June 3rd, 2008

More Integration of Windows Update

After hopefully finding a solution to my wife’s laptop problems, I began wondering to myself, why in the world didn’t Windows Update notice there were BIOS updates available for my wife’s laptop?
Although my wife is running Vista, you can tell from the graphic to the left from my Windows XP Pro machine that Windows […]

By Jason Bean -- 2 comments

May 27th, 2008

Setting Up Forms Authentication for ASP.NET Website

Why in the world can I not get the built-in authentication controls to work in my installation of ASP.NET?
I’m running SQL Server 2005 and using the aspnet_regsql command tool to register everything. It appears that the aspnet_regsql works as it should, but when I try to configure the settings through the ASP.net Web Site Administration […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

May 23rd, 2008

Organization and Usage of CSS Styles in Visual Web Developer Express 2008

I’m really trying to develop and rely more on CSS for all of my formatting and colors for pages. I’m still teaching myself more on how to use it for positioning and layout, but I know that will come as I force myself to use it more.
One challenge I came across this morning with […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

May 21st, 2008

Improved Microsoft Office Live Small Business Services

I’ve been playing around with my website I setup on Microsoft Office Live’s Small Business Services website. I initially just set it up to test the service and learn a little bit about it, now I’m thinking I may actually start using the domain for somewhat of a client portal of my own.
I received […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

May 20th, 2008

Microsoft Help & Support Gets A Facelift

Is it just me or did Microsoft’s Help and Support website get a little bit of a facelift? It’s not a huge change, but I think it looks great. Very clean and organized.
I wish I could say the same thing for Help & Support that’s embedded within most Microsoft software apps. The one […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

May 16th, 2008

Now Chat with Live Contacts in Yahoo! Mail

I just noticed when I logged into my AT&T U-verse e-mail account that I can now chat with Windows Live contacts from within Yahoo! Mail.
I thought this was a nice feature, and even interesting that it has been worked on and released within such close time frame to the hostile takeover bid by […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

May 14th, 2008

Disappearing Web User Control in Design View

My boss experienced an weird problem with his installation of Visual Web Developer Express 2008.
When he tried to view a web user control page in the design mode the application only displayed a blank white page. If he clicked on the “Source” view, all the code was there that was expected. Combing through the […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

May 7th, 2008

Here’s a New Feature Request in Visual Web Developer Express 2008

I made the “professional” switch over to ASP.NET development awhile back and began using Visual Web Developer Express (VWDE) for all my business clients with the day job. I’ve still kept Dreamweaver 8 installed though because I have a few clients that still use it so it’s nice to be able to open and view […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

April 14th, 2008

Outlook Very Unstable This Morning

For some reason Outlook continues to crash on me this morning. Not sure what it is that’s causing it, trying to pay attention now to what actions I’m taking each time leading up to the crash.
I also can’t get my Printers folder to open up and display my printers today. Wondering if the two items […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

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