Hannes Preishuber

passed exam 070-528 : ~840 (700needed)

I always thought i am a ASP.NET guru, but now i have doubts. I went into the exam without any preparation. It was hard, very hard. 45 Questions and enough time.

A lot of control development (template, base classes, childs) , some config question wehre the only sensfull answere is Website Admin tool (i never use it), some security questions with impersonisation details, a lot of webpart details, mobile controls and extenders, distribution in several cases, some complicated XML questions (what to hell is the asp.net matter), and only 2 gridview questions.

Also the "easy questions" have complicated answeres. I remember a question where the answere (i guess) is to modifiy each  page, which can also be done with one setting in web.config ( which was no option)

So .. puhh... i am MCSD.NET (one of the first) but the level is getting much higher. This is Ok, but that the question mix is so far away from real developer live is a real killer.

I hope to get motivated to take the rest of the exams.

Microsoft Expression Web Designer training videos

new on the microsoft site: 40 minutes training videos about EWD. Frontpage is dead! EWD is really usefull to handle complex CSS designs and will help to build the table free ASP.NET page. At the moment EWD is not stable enough for me to work with it.

Another video is available from mix 06.

JJ1 alias Bruno the bear is dead

The first brown bear in germany for 170 years was killed from hunters a few hours after "shoting" order by goverment. Bruno was born in italy 2 years ago and entered germany illegal, crossing austria. He eat some sheeps, chicken and honey and meet some people. Was enough for the bavarian enviroment minister. Now the bear comes into the museum for nature in munich. 21% of the germans think that this decision goes ok.

If you think this should be a joke or similar, you are wrong. Today in the headlines of all leading european newspapers.

The blog which is started for bruno have 10.000 requests per second and breakes down. Amazing how the world have changed. Perhaps Web 2.0 will help the next bear ( in 170 years) to survife in german wildlife. 

Why Visual Studio doesnt take care on search engine needs?

this was the question in a talk which i have done yesterday with topic "Pagerank 9"

I gave a few tipps how to use ASP.NET controls in a "google" friendly matter.

-I have no answere for this question only a suggestion to the ASP.NET Team

1. make a seo check option in the IDE like XHTML or accesibilty
2. make all controls optional with hyperlinks instead of postback ( eg paging in gridview)
3. add necesarry attributes by default (like alt tag in img when i drop it from toolbar)
4. Add the Contentplaceholder to Masterpage by default to head area
5. discuss the position of viewstate
6. make some tools to rate the quality based on external links (sometihing for msn search?)
7. ...

I guess the problem is that microsoft ( and its developers) always looking at ASP.NET as application framework. Google is looking for documents!

german visual studio 1 magazine

the german visual studio 1 magazine (www.visualstudio1.de) is getting a new editor in chief. Everybody is invited to give tipps in this blog as comment who will be the "new" one. The first wins a small price. The solution comes with the next visual studio 1 issue.

Das visual studio 1 Magazin bekommt ab der nächsten Ausgabe einen neuen Chefredakteuer. Der "neue" ist ein "alter" Hase und in der Community gut bekannt. Wer wirds wohl werden? Eure Vermutungen schreibt als Kommentar in dieses Blog. Der erste der richtig liegt erhält von mit was nettes.

 Die Auflösung gibts im nächsten Magazin.

US TechEd 06: where is the Web 2.0 content?

as i can not attend TechEd US i am looking for the sessions here. There are also some webcasts availaible.

But i miss the web (2.0?) content:

Searched for ATLAS : found only 2 BOFs,
Search for Expression: Result Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) vs. SQL ( not what i expected)

What are the reasons? As i know TechEd is only presenting todays technology or max upcoming in six month. Means for me ATLAS and the Expression products will not ship this year.

Perhaps TechEd EMEA in Barcelona will show more.

you can't pay enough

Todays headline is not any announcement on TechEd. Robert Scoble is making the news of the day. He is doing something and the whole world is taking part on that. I have read it in blogs, my newsreader is filling me up and also the german new portal heise.de have it. And believe me, heise usual have only LAMP or Microsoft security issues in stock.

So a company have given a employee the space to create and grow. The company pays and the employee works on its recognition. He is able to communicate in minutes with thousands of community members. When he thinks somebody is paying more (than 85K) he can move without any problems.

The employer is getting in a worse situation. Should i make my stuff to stars? and get a increased risk they will move?

Our company have a similar situation. We are delivering training. It costs a lot of time ( and money) to push somebody to a star level and from this moment he can go and earn n-times more as freelancer or pushing a competitor.

Fiat Punto Grande with Windows mobile

Fiat is the first car company which uses and implement Windows mobile. The car realy have a usb port! And a Windows Start Icon key(picture left). Seems that i have to buy a new car (gadget freak) ;-)

Lesson today: COM is still alive and VB is losing terrain

With Vista or IE 7 comes a new RSS engine, called RSS Platform. All programms on the computer can use same store and feeds ( and events). If you install IE7 on XP with SP2, you also have it. And now guess, what is the object type of the API?

COM: msfeeds.dll

Also with net you have to use a wrapper and make a reference to that dll. Small sample togive you a picture how this API is designed.

Dim mgr As New FeedsManager
Dim folder As IFeedFolder = mgr.RootFolder
Dim events As IFeedFolderEvents_Event = folder.GetWatcher(FEEDS_EVENTS_SCOPE.FES_ALL, FEEDS_EVENTS_MASK.FEM_FEEDEVENTS)AddHandler events.FeedItemCountChanged, AddressOf feedadded

Next : I remember some time ( ~2 years ago) where some people from microsoft announced that every sample must be written from MS stuff first with VB and i watched also a demo from Don Box coded with VB. Seems that this is definitly over. The "documentation" of the feeds API have no VB code example.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/FeedsAPI/rss/rss_entry.asp

The first sample is done with C++!

PS: Microsoft drops C# http://weblogs.asp.net/hpreishuber/archive/2004/07/05/173067.aspx ;-)

german ASP-Konferenz is coming ( june19)

The ASP-konferenz is coming soon. Located in Burghausen near Munich from june 19th to 21. More than 30 ASP.NET and Web 2.0 relevated sessions.

Gurus at work:

Christian Wenz ( author of 1st ATLAS book)

Alexander Schwinn ebay

Bernhard Frank Microsoft

Christoph Wille ( Author of 1st C# book)

Daniel Zeiss ( Autor of AJAX Framwork ComfortASP.NET)

Hard Erlinger ( Autor of the ASP.NET Design Templates)

Karsten Samaschke (massive book writing)

and  more