BTW, this is yet another code-when-I-have-a-free-time program

Yours truly! (that would be me)

Congratulations to everyone else who earned this honor.

Today I had to bring up a previous project that I had done in asp.net and make sure that it would work well if installed to an end-user's machine for beta testing.

For the past several months, I've been doing development for in-house applications using WinForms, so it took an hour or two to get back into the asp.net groove. Once I said "oh yeah" a few times tho, I've got to say - I miss it. I even dusted off some old javascript skills (thanks to a little help from Julie) and after updating one stored procedure to work with some new functionality, I've got a completely working test deployment in as close as an environment to the target as I could muster.

On that note - be careful using .msi technology and then trying to xcopy an updated .dll to the \bin of your web app in XP. Apparently, it won't let asp.net create an appdomain and you'll get the dreaded "Server Application Unavailable" error. Heh. Didn't see that one coming - when I test deployed to a Win2k workstation, I did not get the same error, it just worked. Weird.

I finally figured out how to use the Document.Selection of Nikhil's HTML Component. I was looking for Document.InsertHtml which eluded me until today. This is really great - one of those hidden gems that wasn't so hidden once you saw it.

So anyway, I'm making headway on this project, little by little (work and all). Here's what I got from a simple dialog and syntax highlighting:

Hopefully before too long we'll have a maiden post.

Jason Alexander posted recently about moving nGallery to VaultPub.

I'm hosting my little slow-going side project there too (hence the title:) It's going to be a WYSIWYG desktop blog editor that will allow posting to many different blogs - if they support the MetaWeblog API. I had originally called it PostModern, at the suggestions of one of my readers a passer-by, but I'm changing the name to Post XING, since the main point of this little app was to allow me to post to different blogs if I wanted to.

Anyways, I've got to say that Vault / Vaultpub is really awesome. It's been quite some time since I've used source control, and the last solution I used (VSS) taught me how to cope with loss. I'm even testing it over a dial-up connection (I know, that's SO 1994) and it still works great. Sweet.