- Posted by justin on August 2, 2005
Today Microsoft released the ASP.NET 2.0 provider toolkit. The ASP.NET Provider Toolkit provides a full source code implementation for how you can build a set of ASP.NET 2.0 providers for the new Membership, Role Managmenet, Health Monitoring and Personalization features.
Except from Scott Guthrie (http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2005/08/01/421275.aspx)
For those of you who haven't looked into the ASP.NET 2.0 provider model yet, it is definitely worth reviewing. I think you'll find it provides a pretty nice extensibility model that lets developers pull out and replace the built-in implementations of our core building block services, and does a good job of letting you easily use the rich productivity features we've added in V2 (Membership, Role Manager, Profile, Site Navigation, Login Controls, WebParts, Menu/TreeView/Breadcrumb controls, etc, etc, etc) while at the same time preserving your options to extend and customize the built-in support in a really flexible way if needed.
Phase 1 of the Toolkit includes the source code for the Access providers we had in Beta1 but were cut in favor of SQL Express in Beta2. Phase 2, which will happen later this year, will include the complete source code for the SQL Server, SQL Express, and AD/AZMan providers that we'll ship with the final release of the product. We are also working on a detailed whitepaper (currently 75 pages and growing) that describes the provider pattern we implemented in ASP.NET 2.0 in detail, and talks about strategies for implementing new ones of your own.
- Posted by justin on August 1, 2005
So I had my MCE remote control completely die a few months ago or so I thought. My remote had no lights, no IR lights, nothing. After calling Microsoft and getting the run around about who actually supports the remote, I decided to just purchase another one.
So today I was broswing around and ran across a post from someone that said to take the batteries out of the remote for 30 minutes. I guess after 30 minutes without batteries that remote resets itself and starts working again when you put the batteries back in. So I figured what the heck and tried and low and behold the remote works again. So now I have two remotes for my MCE since I purchased a 2nd one.