Friday, November 30, 2007

Tutorial Slow Start

Visual Studio Express (Web Developer)

Ok, let's give this a try. I won't spend a lot of time here, but a half hour should show some progress.

I'm not sure where to begin, so I'm going to start with the "Create Your First Web Site" tutorial.

Well, as expected, it's pretty slow going. Just drag, drop, set properties, etc. Still, it's probably just as fast (or possibly faster) than stumbling along on my own. Next Tutorial is for Basic Data Access. Let's see how far I can get in the next 10 minutes.

Stalled - looks like I have to install SQL Server express (although I thought I already had done so. I'll install it (again?) and pick up there next time.

Sorry it's so slow getting re-started.

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Sunday, November 25, 2007

Starting Over

Starting Over

Well, not quite from scratch. But, I got a new computer (: I'm very excited, and can't wait to get started.

Redo from start?

I've got to re-write my auto-nag script to (a) remind me to update my blog often, and (b) allow me to pre-write my blog entries (including this one). My old script used an Excel macros and created an Outlook.Application object to do its thing. No Excel on this computer (so far), and Outlook (Express) has been replaced by Windows mail (which doesn't expose an API as far as my limited research has revealed.

So, a new script has to be written that will take text files (such as the one I'm writing now), reformat them as .eml files, pop them up for approval, and mark them as sent.

As you can tell if you're reading this, that new script has been written.

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