As I am excited in the new Map control for VS 2008, I immediately created a sample ASP.NET 3.5 application.

How did I do it? well.. 

Fire VS 2008. Select File -> New Website -> ASP.NET Windows Live Web Site

 

 

From the toolbox's Virtual Earth Tab, drag the Map control into page Default.aspx. Run the application. 

 

As easy as that I already have my website embedded with Virtual Earth. 

I then added a simple Shape called Pushpin by adding the code below in the Page Load event of the Default.aspx. 

        var latlong = new LatLongWithAltitude(34.0540, -118.2370);
        var s = new Shape(ShapeType.Pushpin, latlong);
        s.Title = "First hand in ASP.NET Live Controls";
        Map1.AddShape(s);
 

Run the application.

   

Today, I downloaded the July 2008 CTP of Windows Live Tools for Visual Studio 2008.

 

Windows Live™ Tools for Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008 are a set of control add-ins to make incorporating Windows Live services into your Web application easier with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer Express 2008.

 

 There are 6 controls that were included in the CTP release:

• Contacts Control
• IDLoginStatus Control
• IDLoginView Control 
• MessengerChat Control 
• SilverlightStreamingMediaPlayer Control
• Map Control 

Among these controls, what I am excited to experiment with is the Map Control. I'm interested in developing application that uses maps, e.i. Google Maps, Yahoo Maps but I hate javascript so my plan didn't materialize. Thanks to this controls release for ASP.NET I can now start experimenting with these.  

Find the full details of the CTP and Windows Live Tools here.

I found here a great source of building and using code snippets for VS 2008.

I just atttended the 2008 Globe Innovation Convention yesterday. It marks the launching of Globe Telecoms' Globe Labs APIs to the public developers.

For security purposes, we should not put websites into  production environment with debug mode enabled nor trace enabled. I got this tip from a book published by SAMS. On the production server, add the following element inside the system.web section of the machine.config file:

<deployment retail=“true”/>

Adding this element disables debug mode, enables remote custom errors, and disables tracing on all of the ASP.NET websites on that server. 

Only last month was the latest update to BE.NET and now here is a new update.

 Feature enhancements includes:

• Filter by APML
• Database support out-of-the-box
• File upload improvements
• HTML editor defaults

 

read the post here or download the update here.

 

I better write it here.

SET SERVEROUTPUT ON
DECLARE
L_COUNT NUMBER(38);
L_COUNTVALUE NUMBER(38);
L_FREE_RECORDS NUMBER(38);
L_TOTAL_RECORDS NUMBER(38);
L_OTHER_USER VARCHAR2(20);
BEGIN
EDGClaims.CountDocs
    ('12345',
     '20',
     'euo',
     L_COUNT,
     L_COUNTVALUE,
     L_FREE_RECORDS,
     L_TOTAL_RECORDS,
     L_OTHER_USER
    );
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('X'||L_OTHER_USER||'X');
END;