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New Framework and Website Code Online

New Code online at svn , check out my sandbox . Code Documents moved to online repository: codedocs.rainbowbeta.com Solution cleaned to 5 projects ( 2 Duemitri which need to be replaced with master pages, and 3 Rainbow.Frameowrk projects) Code solution

RainbowBeta.com

Rainbowbeta.com is officially onlinle. I implore everyone to visit and register. If you are a rainbow developer, there is a special rainbow devleoper role i can put you in. Also, if anyone wants to volunteer to help add content and administer the site,
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Code Documentation

RainbowBeta.com is hosting the alpha code documentation for rainbow portal 2.0 http://codedocs.rainbowbeta.com/
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Comming days of development

As people begin downloading, and working on my sandbox with me, weather it be testing, adding missing code, fixing issues... i thought i would update on what I will be doing the comming day's with regard to the code. I am creating two new projects which
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Go Check this out

Rainbow 2.0 + Component Module + Gridview + SQObjectDatasource = http://www.jonavi.com/default.aspx?pageID=45&alias=jonavi.com&default_default
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Rainbow 2.0 Sandbox

My sandbox currenlty contains... A smooth working Rainbow.sln with all the code projects. 2 options for web sites, Default rainnbow site you can create any virtual directory for, (code projects will build to this site, so it is always updated ). As well
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New HIstory File Sample

This is a screen shot of the XML / XSL module loaded with History.xml and History.xsl which are located in the default portal directory.

Preview Information for weekend commit that is coming

Preview Information for weekend commit that is coming: : So tonight and tomorrow, I am just doing some Q & A on my solution, doing lot's of clean installs, and switching db's all the time, changing virtual directories, testing as local host as well

Solution updates, clean install and esperantus notes

I wanted to let everyone know that thanks to some pointers from ace, and some initiative on turning the error handler of, I was able to make some progress in correcting the clean install... I am not there yet, but I am pushing forward and hope to have
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New Code Commit of Rainbow on 2.0

Posted some new code into my sandbox today http://tinyurl.com/zeyzd has the comments. Bascially, you should read my latest blogs , and the readme file in the dev folder of my trunk, and then try it out if you like, help me find issues, or actually help

ASP.NET 2.0, Multiple projects in the solution, No Esperantus and more!

ASP.NET 2.0, Multiple projects in the solution, No Esperantus and more! Web holds your modules and pages, etc... web.config, rainbow.config ( why can't we joing them ? ) AppCode Contains all the zen code, and raiinbow folders code Rainbow.Framework .Web.UI.Webcontrols

A few comments

#1 I wanted to let everyone see the amazing work being done by sam in the design and themes area. I just think it is one of the best looking rainbow skins i have seen. 2) I wanted to note that the debugging in Visual Studio 2005 is just fantastic....
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.NET Code Formatting Tool

I found this really cool tool today from Manoli.net the result comes out something like this.... 1: /// <summary> 2: /// Generates a mail to link 3: /// Encodes the link to avoid bots from reading the links. 4: /// Has options for Subject, ToolTip,
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Rainbow.Framework.Permissions

Permissions will basically be one table the way i see with a couple of helper tables or settings. the idea is to make the permissions very flexible, but also granular, so we can permission anything, and the code and business logic will interpret the permissions

Sharing Master Pages and Themes across applications

Themes: Using Global Theme is way to share Theme between different Apps. eg if you want to create a Global Theme called theme1 For Cassini server create a Theme1 folder inside framework folder like \WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.xxxxx\ ASP.NETClientFiles\
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Composite Controls And ViewState keys

Reading some of my daily blogs today, I came across a nice post by Scott Guthrie , talking about Composite Controls. He explained something that I felt was worth mentioning, which I had not previously known. This is something that is actually going to
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Rainbow.Framwork Spec Blog

I wanted to explain a bit more about Rainbow.Framework . Rainbow.Framework is step one in pushing the application toward clean and seperate api's. What we will be left with is something along these lines Rainbow.Framework Rainbow.Framework .Extensions

Rainbow.Framework

The past couple day's I took a breather from the settings wizard, because the bugs were beginning to tire me, so I Thought I would try something else. I jumped right in and ripped all the rainbow core code, into a new project Rainbow.Framework. This allows

SVN Commit [ Settings Wizard, Magic Ajax, Message Conrol ]

I have committed my current developer code, to my SVN trunk. svn+ssh://anonymous@forgesvn1.novell.com/svn/rainbow/sandboxes/jminond or if you are a developer who might be commiting fixes to my issues :-) svn+ssh:// [yourUsername] @forgesvn1.novell.com/svn/rainbow/sandboxes/jminond

Rainbow Mission Statement

Following the pattern of placing our mission statements on our blog, I thoguht I would do so as well, however instead of copying it over, i will paste the link to the forum post becuase there is some back and forth replies on there as well. Also, I felt
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Rainbow with magic ajax

A little update: Eric sent me the latest AJAX dll, posted on the community files list. I have successfully configured my wizard to save settings and all that, however, I am still debugging the ajaxified version. Basically, I have the settings wizard implementing

Community Server Beta 3 Bug

I have noticed an issue in my blog, with regards to text formatting and colors. I have prepared a couple of screen shots to demonstrate what i means. In this first shot you can see that in the designer of the online blog editor, i have used color and
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Quick Note on Debug

I know that personally, in my code, when I am creating something, or trying to fix something, i use a lot of debug code, you know... Response.Write( "Whatever statement" ); try... catch.... when maybe you don't need it there. etc.... Well, this may not
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Rainbow Core API Thoghts

Lately we have been doing a lot of talking about what can be done with the core, what is being done, and what will happen. One of the more interesting discussions for me going on right now, is the talk of api's for rainbow. Application API - Thing of

My Plan for february and Rainbow

The rainbow project is moving along at a nice pace, with some great enthusiasm from people like Manu, Eric, Mark, Rahul, Ace and other....... the 1.6 release was pretty solid, and soon followed by a preliminary 2.0 release, which is being cleaned up and

Welcome to my blog.

My name is Jonathan Minond, and this is my Rainbow Community blog. I will be chatting about rainbow and rainbow related development and ideas i have. Anyway, i'll make a more interesting post tommorow. For now, welcome to my blog!!!
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