Manuel Abadia's ASP.NET stuff - March, 2006

Creating cool controls is only the first half of the work. The second half of the work is to add rich design time support in order to make it easy to use and improve productivity.

This post is an introduction to Component Designers.

Finally WebParts are getting Drag & Drop support for FireFox although WebParts are not working 100% yet.

An Excel spreadsheet where you have guess some old games based on the screenshots.

Very funny!

My copy of Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Advanced Topics has finally shipped

Everybody knows that reflection is slow but I wanted something more measurable than slow so I did some performance tests for the basic things I do with reflection.

This week has been a different week for me.

Somehow I ended up designing the layout for a book

This completes the emulation of Trivial Pursuit (Spanish).

There are some screenshots of the game.

In the past weeks I've been posting some detailed information about how the ObjectDataSource works in ASP.NET 2.0.

In those posts I pointed out some limitations or problems with the ObjectDataSource control. The only real solution here its to code your own data source control but it isn't an easy task.

As I was very unhappy with the ObjectDataSource I coded my own data source control based on the ObjectDataSource but with a lot of improvements.

Take a look at it here:
http://www.manuelabadia.com/products/EODS_features.aspx

Trivial Pursuit (Spanish) is not a simple rom swap. There are 40320 possible combinations to map the program ROMs.

With some patience I have reduced the number of combinations to 120.

There are some screenshots of the current progress. I'll finish emulating this next week.

Finally a PCB for Trivial Pursuit Spanish has been found. This was a MAME Most Wanted board and will be emulated soon...

Al fin se ha encontrado una placa del Trivial Pursuit en español, que era uno de los juegos más buscados del MAME. Pronto estará emulado...