ASP.Net Atlas March 2006 CTP released

At least, a kind of stable version of Altas released. This the Microsoft's answer to AJAX, a way of doing AJAX in ASP.Net fashion. You can try this demo page with any major browser like IE and FireFox. When you are ready, download the stuff from this ATLAS site. Then read more info on the ATLAS documentation.

Freaking App.config

I learned this from hard way. It turns out that writing user data in app.config file is a BAD IDEA. And here's why with suggestion.

For reading the app.config file, you can read this .

ConfigurationManager.AppSettings

It's good that I didn't jump into the VS.Net 2005 right away, since there's quite some gotta that people need to jump thru.

For instance, when I used ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings, I got a message saying that the object has been retired. I need to:

- Add reference to the System.Configuration.dll
- Use System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings instead.

Reference:
- ConfigurationManager.AppSettings
- Another reference

Finding Spelling Checker for Visual Studio.Net

I was trying to find some spelling check add-on for Visual Studio .Net (since I found a free plug-in to do spelling check for IntelliJ IDEA, and thought VS.Net IDE needs to have one), and I can only find this Visual Studio 2005 Automation Sample, and it didn't work as expected. I wish I have money to buy this CodeSMART G2 for Visual Studio since it comes with a spelling checker. Sigh.

Oh, my friend found this: Spell Checker for VS.NET 2003 Add-in (v. 2.0)

Printing MSDN articles

If you need to print any MSDN Library article, remember NOT to use FireFox. The printout will got all mess up. ONly the IE will print things out properly.

Search Files: .Net 2.0 Style

I am writing an app that search and copy files, and found the following links help during my development process:

- Search for Files
- DirectoryInfo Class
- SearchOption Enumeration
- FileInfo Class
- Working with File Names