Philip Beadle's Blog

I just got back from CodeCampOZ 2007 in Wagga Wagga and it was a great weekend.

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Well the hard work paid off and I just got notified that I got reawarded MVP :)

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Found this great calendar app for One Note by Josh Einstein.

http://blogs.msdn.com/descapa/archive/2007/03/26/josh-einstein-s-onenote-calendar.aspx

He has used the same UI as Vista has for browsing images so it is really easy to use.  I love it, its a great complement to the Outlook One Note integration, now I can browse my One Notes work by date and easily find notes I took at meetings etc.

I needed to transform some XML with a XSL style sheet without writing to Disk and this is how I did it. The end result is an XML Document with the transformed result.

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In January when I missed out on my MVP award I decided to make sure I got it back ASAP. Now in mid march I am now 5th on the list on page 5 and have increased my contributions by nearly 1000 so far. Ill be on page 4 real soon.

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This morning we updated the Online Help Content on the DotNetNuke site.  Most of the new modules ahev been documented and there is more content related to the Admin and Host sections.

DotNetNuke Online Help System 03.00.01 has been officialy released on www.dotnetnuke.com. 

I needed to find out which methods were calling my method so I came up with this snippet that gives you a path from your method to the start of the stack trace.  The DataProvider bit is DotNetNuke specific code, to muse this outside of DNN log it to the event log or something similar.

                Dim st As New Diagnostics.StackTrace()
                Dim methodPath As String = String.Empty
                Dim i As Integer = 0
                For Each fr As Diagnostics.StackFrame In st.GetFrames()
                    methodPath += ">> " & fr.GetMethod.Name
                    i += 1
                Next
                DataProvider.Instance().ExecuteSQL("Insert Into Trace (RawURL, Stack) VALUES ('Frames = " & i & "','" & methodPath & "')")

Ever had one of those Web forms where you enter your password only to hit some button later on and it wipes your password between post backs.  You can reset the value using the following snippet.

txtPassword.Attributes.Add("value", _password)

Woohoo.  We have now finished the DotNetNuke for Dummies book and it scheduled for release on 10th April 2007.