- Smooooke. (not now Larry)
I’ve seen some cool smoke and fire photography before, but these really are impressive even knowing the color is all photoshop. Unlike some, I don’t take issue with people using photoshop for artsy purposes as long as they’re not deceptive about it. In related photos: Ariel also has done some cool stuff with matches in the past.
- Build your own modded System.Web.Extensions.dll
Earlier today Microsoft released the source code to the AJAX 1.0 release System.Web.Extensions library. I was in the apparently unique position of needing to modify parts of the code for a special case application, so I downloaded the source right away ready to modify, compile and deploy.
I guess I was pretty naive to think that it would be that easy. The distribution doesn’t include some pretty important parts. A .csproj file for one. The entire Resources class for another.
So I had to work my way through the process of getting a compile-able version of the library ready to replace the official System.Web.Extensions binary in my project. The server code Reference License prevents me from simply providing the project to you, but here are the high points if you need to do the same.
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