Hello, I'm   Jason

This event will be held at Luzerne County Community College, Nanticoke on January 25th, 2006. For directions to the facility and for room information, click here. The event will begin at 6:00pm. Here is the schedule:

6:00pm Open Forum

I saw a post come around about some cool XBox 360 Tracker resources. Check these out:

The 2.0 version of the Enterprise Library has been released and is currently available for download at the Microsoft site. It has been redesigned to take advantage of some of the new features in 2.0.

Windows XP Service Pack 3 won’t be out until 2007…

One of the sites I visit frequently to convert images from GIF to a Base64 string is http://www.motobit.com/util/base64-decoder-encoder.asp. It’s a quick and easy way to do the conversion. It would be pretty nice if VS.net eventually had a conversion tool built in.

It’s been a little while since I’ve posted. Reason being, I’ve been hard at work building a few add-in modules for Microsoft Small Business Accounting 2006. Yesterday, I needed to install SBA and BCM SP1 on the server and client machines. Little did I realize that because I was debugging my add-ins using SBA.exe, my debugging database and resource files had the old sbaiapi.dll and sbaapi.dll. It appeared that when I ran my add-in in debug mode, VS.NET would replace the SP1 exe and dlls with the old ones. If I closed out of VS.NET and attempted to run SBA, it still wouldn’t work. I had to repair SBA. After I deleted the debugging files, temp files (including temporary resource files), and old compiled copies of the .dll, it worked with no issues.

Join us tonight for TECHbash 2005. The event will kick off at 4:30pm. All event details can be found at www.TECHbash.com.

As a reminder, the TECHbash 2005 event will be held tomorrow night, Wednesday November 30th, at Luzerne County Community College (Nanticoke, PA) in the Education Conference Center Building #10 room #132. If you have not yet registered for this event and plan to attend, please register at www.TECHbash.com/register. For more event information, visit http://www.techbash.com/events_view.aspx?eventID=1. We look forward to seeing you tomorrow night!

I just read a pretty good article on adding auto-suggest functionality to a website. The article can be found at http://www.travelope.com/DeveloperCorner/article/. I have implemented a 3rd party product called EasySearchASP.net, which contains similar functionality, on my website. For those of you interested in seeing a common use for AJAX, be sure to check it out.

Microsoft has setup a free 30-day, no obligation, ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 hosting service. This service is to demonstate the power of 2.0 and to show off some of the starter kits. To get started, you can visit http://www.vwdhosting.net.