Jay Smith

I am very pleased to announce that I have had my MVP with Microsoft for ASP .NET re-awarded.  I am extremely honored to receive this award.  Over the last year I have had the privilege to get to know other MVPs and feel awe struck to be among them.  I have learned a lot and hope to continue learning.

My community is awesome,  I want to give some credit where credit is due.  The Northwest Arkansas developer community is awesome and in my opinion is one of the best have had the honor of working with.  I am going to have to keep my skills sharp and work hard to keep up for next year.  There are several very talented people in my area and I expect to see many of the become MVPs in their own right in the future.

Thanks to Microsoft for the honor be be an MVP and thanks to my community for helping me get there.

Tags: mvp, aspnet, community

I have downloaded many apps in the past to use at work only to find out that they do not properly handle the proxy authentication at my location.  At home they work just fine, but at work no way!  One was Witty the WPF twitter client, I actually downloaded the code and patched and submitted that back to the developer.  You now have the option to configure the proxy settings in the options windows.

Recently I downloaded Podder, version 2 has some awesome new skins for an WPF application but still doesn’t work through my proxy server.

I did some research and did find a solution, by adding the following to the config file, Podder.exe.config in this case you can define the default proxy behavior for the application. 

<system.net>

<defaultProxy enabled="true" useDefaultCredentials="true">

<proxy bypassonlocal="True" proxyaddress="http://proxy.example.com:8080"/>

</defaultProxy>

</system.net>

It needs to be in the <configuration> node and it worked best if I put it at the bottom below everything else.  Putting it at the top made Podder crash, not sure that really had anything to do with it, but putting it at the bottom didn’t crash.

I wish more developers provided ways to configure the proxy server in their internet enabled apps, but they don’t.  At least now if can work around their laziness and hopefully get it to work any way.

Other apps that I plan to try this on are Blu, and DigiTweet to start.

Tags: .net, asp.net

It feels kind of funny posting this now, you see I have been sick for the last few days and haven’t really been checking my email like I should.  Well, today I called Randy Walker and before saying anything else he says “Congrats”, it took me a second to figure out what he was talking about.  So, I went to read my email and there it was, an email from Microsoft telling me that I had been awarded the ASP .NET MVP.  I feel extremely honored to have received such an award. 

I want to thank everyone in Northwest Arkansas, the South Central District, and INETA for helping and supporting our community efforts in my area.  It has been a joy to build the community in Northwest Arkansas and watch it grow.  I can’t wait to see what new heights we can achieve now, and hope to see more Arkansas MVPs as the result.

Thanks to everyone for the congrats and you can rest assured I will use this to benefits the community and share as much as I can.

Tags: microsoft, aspnet, mvp