Posted by
Al Nyveldt in
Development on Dec 31, 2006 |
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I spend a little time this week updating my
family web site.
The most enjoyable part was working wish my old code which I hadn't
touched for so long. It was my first work with Visual Studio 2005 and
the new features that came with it.
I had originally used the
Personal Web Site Starter Kit to make the site. I then started adding
a bunch of stuff and trying out the new things in the 2005 edition. I
remember I tried to use a lot of different things as I worked just to
use them. Looking back a year later was interesting. Here are a few
random observations from my initial use of the new 2005 features to
today:
- It was the first time I saw some of the controls
in use since I originally set them up. (Some of them are no longer in
use either.) Overall, I'm still not a fan of most of them.
- Since
it was a learning experience, I mixed connecting these data controls to
DataSets and Objects and had forgotten that until I dug in this week.
(I could not believe I had left it that way.)
- My use of generics was consistant at least.
- I remember I had spend a bit of time reading up on ArrayList verses List in the documentation. I have used List ever since.
- Initially,
I didn't realize that I could make changes to the default Membership
settings. I left a lot of it the way it was and finally put it the way
it should have been to begin with this time around in just minutes.
- I
love master pages and themes, but was a little afraid to do much with
them in my initial work. I remember thinking I didn't really like the
defaults look, but thought it would take too much effort to do
something different. I really missed the boat on that one.