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I’ve recently gotten started with ASP.NET’s membership and roles features (after re-working a MySQL provider found here), and I’ve gotta say, for the simple purposes I’ve been using it, it’s easier to implement than Rails’ various LoginGenerator systems.

The only thing that sucks about it is the administration, which seems to require Visual Studio 2005 and is tied to your web.config settings, which may (should?) be different between dev and prod. In an unrelated Google, I stumped upon Rahul Soni’s guide to running the web admin tool without VS2005. Haven’t tried it yet, so this is more of a bookmark than anything else, but well worth noting - up until now I’ve been admining the users locally and then uploading a dump of the user table to the server with my changes, and that won’t work too well once people start changing passwords and whatnot…

Ever the early adopter, I upgraded Visual Studio 2005 to SP1 yesterday. Why so late? I’m running Vista, and what with a zillion things still requiring an XP Virtual PC image to get my job done, I take a strong “if it ain’t broke” approach. Why the change? The ability to set the virtual path so I can debug web projects in the root folder. I can’t believe it took this long to happen.

All appears well, and if anything, the system’s a lot snappier, especially in big compiles. The only thing to watch out for if you’re running Vista is that you need to install the regular SP1 patch first, then the Vista beta patch. I got a little confused and assumed that I only had to do the Vista one, but if you try that you’ll get a “you’re not running any of the products this patch applies to” message.

Wait a minute - it’s 2007, why are we downloading application patches at all?

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FYI - you’ve got until the end of the year to snag VisualSVN for $30 off. It’s probably worth it for the rename integration alone, even at the full price…

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If Colin Coller’s CopySourceAsHtml works half as well as I hope it will, the rotation of the Earth might skip a beat in a minute

Did you feel that? I know I felt that.  And I’m still feeling it, know what I mean?

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