Karls Blog

... was the day Bianca Valmorbida asked me, Karl Kopp, to marry her ...

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... I said yes ...

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... blogged so Google will remember the date :)

Saw this on Scott Hanselman's blog (link to post) but the guys at Binary Fortress make a great little tools called ASP.NET ViewState Helper. It allows you to see the site of the ViewState for each page, and also decode the ViewState. Since 98% of what we do at WDG is web based, and the vast majority of that is ASP.NET, its a tool I'll be adding to our suite :)

Download it here!

Since I lost my laptop I've had a number of desktops, and I've come to realise that I rely on a good many tools to 'get things done'. A few updates of my favorite tools came out today:

- Virtual PC 2007 - supports hardware virtualisation and Vista as a host, a client or both

- Reflector 5 - support for C# 3.0 (Linq, Lambda experssions etc), UI updates, kewl expand methods option plus more.

One more to get off my 'chest', then its back to geek stuff, I promise ;)

A cat named Lucky!

Picture says it all...

Saw this great blog entry from Martin Woodward of Teamprise fame about a really nice change they made to their build numbering system - I like lots, will look at implementing down here in Melbourne :)

http://www.woodwardweb.com/vsts/000329.html

I also saw on Scott Guthries blog this morning a post about these great videos on ASP.NET AJAX How-Tos plus many others - interesting resource:

http://www.asp.net/learn/videos/

Our TFS server has been running nicely since we started using it across the organisation in early/mid 2006. Today I had a request to delete a project that had been created and was not being used, and I found this nice little WinForms app dev'd by Julien to add to our list of TFS Admin tools :)

http://julien.lavigneducadet.com/index.php?2006/08/03/7-user-interface-to-delete-a-tfs-project

LOL. Saw this on www.digg.com but the guys over at Overstock.com have an amazing sale where you can save -37% (negative 37%). The 250GB Caviar hard drive normally costs $99.99 but TODAY you can pick one up for $137.45 - thats a saving of -$37.46! Screen shot and link below...

http://www.overstock.com/?page=proframe&prod_id=2085239

Jim Allchin (the man behind Vista) just posted an amusing blog entry about what the future may hold...

http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2007/01/31/what-comes-next.aspx

Apparently, it was the last thing he did as an MS employee...