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The very first project I did using MVC 3 went live and we made the news! :)
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Developing a search form should be one of the simplest Web development tasks in the world. I can do it in a few minutes with ASP.NET WebForms, but for some reason with MVC it kicked my ...
Once you get past all of the cool MVC simple-mode demos which always have things like typing dates into textboxes, no Ajax, etc...you start to dig into what I personally find to be the most work with ...
Since MVC 3 is driving me more into client scripting, I started playing around with calling WCF services from JavaScript, but what I didn't know is that you can actually create a proxy by going to the...
MVC 3 was released just recently and I'm starting to get some strong feelings about what looks ugly and what looks clean for an MVC app. First of all, the Razor view engine is very slick and looks muc...
With all of the hype around Entity Framework and LINQ to SQL, there are still
some of us out there that are still going old school and rolling our own POCOs.
I know ORMs are supposed to be super-dup...
Interested in writing a LINQ query to fill a DataTable? Normally I don't condone writing ugly code but let's have some fun. In this example, an
anonymous type array is created followed by a DataTable...
For a while now I've been in "lurker" mode in all of the .NET community
blogs. One of the interesting transitions that's been going on is the demo code
for...well...just about everything i...
Long title - but that says it all. Today I wasted a large chunk of time trying to figure out why I was getting a challenge dialog on my ASP.NET site. The site was configured to use an application pool...
I had someone ask me this question today about a query where he wanted to get a max value along with the ID and Date of the record. However, the varying Date values were causing “dupli...
I'm sure you've heard by now the Visual Studio 2008 is RTM. If you haven't already, play around a bit with object/collection initializers and LINQ. One interesting thing I've learned today is th...
I'm not going to bash Oracle...it does a good job of bashing itself. For those of us used to being productive using SQL Server (I've heard it said that Oracle sells its products to managers, Microsoft...
Just FYI - if you are using the System.Net.OracleClient namespace with 10g it is possible you will run into this error. Now before you start getting too excited about being able to set the ReturnProvi...
Just a heads up if you use the
AutoCompleteExtender Ajax control. I'm not sure if this is because I'm using
Visual Studio SP1 (using Web Application Projects), but I could not get this
control to w...
This sums it up nicely. :-)...
Just wanted to share this in case anyone has issues with very slow build and debug time in Visual Studio for ASP.NET applications. This solution might sound a lot like holding tin foil over your head,...
We've had some interesting discussions about Web Services around the office
lately. One of the major challenges are people that want to consume Web Services
that transfer large amounts of data r...
Did you know that you can wrap a variable in a using statement without having to set its reference? Someone showed me this today and it of course makes sense, I've just never tried it before and have ...
It's been a while since I've blogged about something I would classify as "interesting."
I plan on revising some earlier posts I've made about WPF and LINQ in the near future
using latest b...
Being a newbie developer in the 90s, my first source control experience was with VSS. Heck, it was distributed with Visual Studio and still is! I'm starting to see the light finally after 10+ years. A...
* shakes head in disgust *
* sigh *
I don't think I need to comment any further about this....
Dev1: OK, so put in validation to make sure the payment amount is not greater than the amount due.
Dev 2: OK, will do. * writes code *Dev 3: There's a rule that if they pay more than they owe yo...
I agree with Frans, this is complete BS. I've complained a lot about the problems and quality of latest version of Visual Studio. I'm not going to belabor that point any further because we all know it...
Remember "is it OLE/ActiveX or COM?" Gotta love marketing.
.NET Framework 3.0 == WinFX
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It's so fun to discover new, simple things in the .NET Framework that make your life easier. Did you know you can call Int32.Parse on a string that contains a hex value and it will convert to dec...
If you've followed my blog for any length of time (lately it's been kinda dead), you know I'm pretty fired up about LINQ. Actually, I'm pretty excited about WF, WPF as well as LINQ. After struggling a...
I haven't downloaded it yet, but if it's any kind of improvement over the last drop, it should definitely be worth playing around with. Thank heavens for VPC....
The formal term for the
waterfall
model in software development was introduced in 1970. These days an
iterative
approach is more popular for its many benefits including risk reduction, etc.
These a...
Interesting, I did not know this about Fritz Onion. I met Fritz at one of the CampSight events (great instructor and knows a ton!) I personally like to leave the "Place code in separate file" checke...
There's a lot of Web 2.0 hype as well as AJAX hype. Funny - I'm excited about WPF more than I am about Atlas, but I still think Atlas will really cool for us Web devs. Anyway, check out the link I pos...
Sometimes I wish this were true. Ever read Daily WTF? I've seen a lot of code like this and it makes me grumpy. Neatness counts IMO and I wish everyone with an IDE (whether they call themselves a deve...
I haven't been blogging because I've been sick with this flu from hell since...oh...about a month ago around the superbowl. Needless to say my free time these days is spent either sleeping or coughing...
Ever wanted to create a DataGridView for WinForms that allowed you to rotate
the angle of the column header text?
CustomDataGrid grid = new CustomDataGrid();grid.Font = new System.Drawing.Font(&q...
One of the really cool features of Visual Studio is the ability to create
typed-DataSets based on XSD using a designer. A typed-DataSet gives you
strongly-typed access to columns such as a person's ...
Last week I posted about how I was calling a Workflow library from an Avalon
(WPF) application. The Workflow library used DLINQ to query a SQL database.
Basically, I was trying to get cute with th...
SharpDevelop,
an open-source IDE, is much better than I anticipated. I downloaded Beta 2 and
was very impressed with their
WinForms designer and their IDE all together! I didn't see any ASP.NET
d...
Just for kicks I decided to try out
Borland C#Builder 1.0 - boy was that a mistake! I see why these guys are
giving up on their dev tools. Funny, I used to like turbo pascal and turbo C++
in colleg...
I went for the trifecta and died on the finish line. :-( I started out by creating WinFX Windows application, and I must say that
having a visual designer for XAML is pretty cool. T...
Frans Bouma told me today that he read something about the job market (because I was looking for LLBLGen Pro developers in Arizona), so I “googled it” and found this on Slashdot...
You can do some "interesting" things by creating your own operators in C#. At
first I was bitten by the dangerous "that looks cool bug" until a particular
debate unfolded. The pr...
Q3 seems like such a long time away. At least VS2003 has an SP coming in Q2...too bad I rarely use VS2003 these days.
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,2180,1917479,00.asp ...
I certainly do not condone holding a lot of state information in Web apps. However, the problem is even worse if you ever try to switch from in-proc Session state to out-of-process if you store object...
Design is full of tradeoffs and there's always some kind of dilemma to deal
with, especially creating ASP.NET applications. I've been fairly spoiled on a
side project I've been working on because I ...
Good thoughts via Weird Thoughts From Eric's Head. Asynchronous apps get get out of hand quickly, take it from someone who's done some pretty crazy things with Binary DHTML Behaviors (C++ and VB ...
Last week was one of those weeks where you feel like you are fighting the tools more than you are writing code. Scott Guthrie was gracious enough to offer help after my temper tantrum about it. :-) He...
Events are a great object communication mechanism, but I seem to have always have difficulty with them doing anything via remoting (which is rare, but it happens). Instead, the observer pattern ends u...
About a month ago
I posted some code for implementing custom paging with the
GridView and
ObjectDataSource with the goal being a single database call to get the
records and the rowcount. The code ...
I think it is a pretty ugly API design to provide a constructor has arguments when are not exposed as properties. Here's an example of something I had to work with this week which I found to be very f...
*sigh*. Bad week I guess, and I just have to vent...
I've been a Visual Studio user for many years and I'm going to be brutally
honest: I'm
frustrated with it to the point of being incoherent ...
I have this love-hate relationship with Visual Studio 2005 Web Dev. One of
the things I couldn't stand in Visual Studio 2003 was how when different people
would check out the Web project file and th...
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