Well, thanks to my father-in-law's early xmas present I am now the proud owner of a 3G iPhone. I had resisted the temptation since they were released earlier this year since I am usually on WiFi and didn't see the need; the ride to work this morning provided one. I love Last.FM and like the iPhone app but I had not used it much on the GSM phone because speeds when not on WiFi ... well, they sucked. This morning I decided to give the new 3G a try and for the 45 minute commute downtown I had only 1...
Tampa Code Camp is this weekend and I’m presenting 3 sessions: Understanding Lambda Expressions Lambda expressions are an integral part of LINQ and a powerful new feature of .NET 3.0. We will explore the history of lambda expressions and how they operate in .NET, and how they can dramatically simplify your code.Lambda expressions are an integral part of LINQ and a powerful new feature of .NET 3.0. Memory Management Fundamentals – Garbage Collection Deep Dive Memory management in .NET is one of the...
Chris Anderson, Tim Heuer, Michael S. Scherotter, and Jonathan van de Veen. Shoutout: If you don't read Scott Guthrie's blog, shame on you :) ... he posted his latest aggregation today: Dec 2nd Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight/WPF . From SilverlightCream.com: Building a Silverlight Line-Of-Business Application – Part 4 Chris Anderson over at SilverlightShow put up the fourth part of his LOB series ... definitely a keeper. Silverlight install...
[Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman] The combination of .NET Services and SQL Services in the cloud provide a very simple model for implementing massively distributed processing. It's an appealing idea – enterprises of any size have hundreds or thousands of workstations which can be idle for the majority of their time. Assuming a generous average 10% resource utilisation during working hours, workstations which are not powered down are averaging 3.3% utilisation over the working week....
Oh the adventures of JavaScript and ASP.NET. Can you turn on validators [RequiredFieldValidators or otherwise] from JavaScript. Yes, and actually it is easier than I thought. ValidtorEnable(ControlId,True/False) Ex: //You could easily make this prettier by not hardcoding the ClientID here ValidatorEnable(document.getElementById('ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_Login1_UserName'), true); Keep in mind, you need to pass the object not the clientID of the object. Source: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa479045.aspx...
Good grief. Yet another XBOX has failed, this time it’s the new one from last year. The DVD drive stopped spinning up right after the NXE update. Microsoft is footing the bill again and thankfully we have 2 so nobody will have to stop using their Lancers. I made it in just under the 1 year maintenance agreement. But this is by far the least reliable product I have ever owned. It was this same time last year we had failure #3. Technorati Tags: microsoft,xbox...
Ok, so I'm sitting in a session at DevTeach in Montreal right now... and someone mentioned to me that they didn't know of any Entity Framework Providers (outside of SQL) that had actually released yet... and I realized that I never got around to posting the links on my blog! The first Entity Framework providers were released at the beginning of September, by Devart (ADO.NET Blog post) to support Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL. More recently we've also seen releases of providers by Npgsql for PostgreSQL...
Hi!, As all of you (I hope) I want to have something similar to Intellisense everywhere. So also I want it in JavaScript and particularly in jQuery. Yeah, yeah, I know, that we have Script# and even M$ uses it, but I want pure JS and pure jQuery. I become very as jQuery team brought us Visual Studio Documentation for jQuery. It is on their site in download section. Works very nice and start its help as soon as you start typing, $ goes first then identifier in brackets and after $("sth"). there is...
This is the first of a series of posts that are intended to help C# developers to get ANTLR up and running and help me to remember what steps were required to get things set up. What is ANTLR? Take a look at the ANTLR website. ANTLR is a tool for developers who want to create languages that comply to a context-free grammar. For such a grammar, ANTLR can create a lexer, a parser, an abstract syntax tree and even a corresponding tree walker. You need some or all of those components to validate, process...
I found this link pretty interesting about how Apple is now recommending that Mac users install an anti-virus program. It would be amusing to hear a Mac user complain about how their anti-virus software is bogging down their computer (McAfee I'm looking at you). I am not an Apple basher or anything but the article does go on to mention how in 2006 TV ads touted that Macs were invulnerable to viruses. Personally I do not use a Mac, I just couldn't get past the one button mouse thing. Plus the Simpson's...
So it may make sense to you how to fetch information from a DefaultView using RowFilter by binding the view, but what about when you just need to extract a value? After applying a RowFilter, the first inclination might be to use the DefaultView.Table.Rows to get information that is filtered. Well, that is ultimately wrong. The DefaultView.Table returns the table the view had originated from. The table you get does not have the RowFilter restrictions applied, and therefore returns the whole table....
Ok, so this probably doesn't happen often, where some code doesn't know on what server or database it is operating on, but needs to know this information... To be honest, I created this as I was able to logon to someone's DotNetNuke site as an admin, but did not have direct access to the website files. The site owner asked where the database resided. So I went to the Host->SQL menu option, which lets you run dynamic sql against your database. And I typed this command in to discover the server...
I've been looking around for sometime, but never found some good information about it. Well, today, I've found some interesting articles (It's not really that new, the article is dated September 15 2008). It seems that there's a possibility for Unit Testing with SharePoint, you can do it with TypeMock. The article is found here. Here are some other referenced articles that might be interesting. Unit Testing SharePoint Beginners guide to TDD Webpart development Sharepoint typemock wrapper (on codeplex)...
I thought I would restart this blog that I've barely used, by doing the traditional introduction. I'm Kelly Jones and I work for Sogeti USA in the Columbus, Ohio office. I've been working in the IT field for ten years now. Like most computer geeks, I've always tinkered with them, going clear back to my Commodore VIC-20 circa 1983. Several years ago, I setup Another Old Computer Museum website. The name was a little bit of a joke, since there were quite a few websites devoted old computers. I originally...
Don't get me wrong, it's a powerful language, but sometimes it just hacks me off. In case anyone is wondering where the rant is coming from, I'm trying to take two stored procedures and merge them. One gets a list, and the second gets child records of the first list. And trust me, it is more complicated than it sounds because of particular nuances in the SPs. If I solve it, I'll let you know! Benjamin...
While I am not always all that interested in IBM DB2 XML contests, this one interested me because I collect Rubick's cubes. I probably have 50 different cubes from 6 sided to a 12 sided puzzle that works on the same principles of the Cube. Anyway, I may have to enter just to increase my chances of getting another Cube. Check it out over here...you could win a 32GB iPod Touch! http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/12/01/ibms-xml-challenge-lots-of-prizes-inside/...
Continuing The Project That Time Forgot, a UML case study in comic strip form... (Click picture for a larger image.) This is the first we've seen of Deployment Diagrams in the Lounge; but they're enough like Class Diagrams that I think you should find them easy to read. Here's the diagram above, larger and more readable: The cubes represent nodes within the system. By default, they represent Processors: computers where you'll deploy code. The <<device>> stereotype here indicates devices...
Day one of my Dev Teach week found us at Ye Old Orchard pub in Montreal. In addition to fine beverages, really good food, and Monday Night Football, it was also trivia night. So what insight did I gleam? Hummingbirds are the only bird that can fly upside down. Marie Curie was the first woman to win two Nobel peace prizes. Molson is the oldest Canadian brewery. Pan is the Greek god of shepherds (we thought maybe it was David Woods…). …and a bunch of other stuff. We also learned… If you’re going to...
I made the trip from Phoenix to Montreal yesterday with only a couple issues... our flight out of Phoenix was delayed 20 minutes so my 45 minutes between planes in Denver got tight. From wheels down to wheels up was exactly 30 minutes and that included switching concourses and almost giving me a stroke :) Of course my bag-o-clothes did NOT make it, and as of 8am it has not yet, but Air Canada just told me on the phone that it was on it's way. I packed one spare set of clothes in my laptop bag, thankfully....
Steve Ballmer raised the Search Challenge to MVPs at 2008 Summit, with the words, “I’m going to ask you one week switch your default, one week. At the end of the week…I’ll want feedback, how was your week, what happened, what did you like, what didn’t you like … Can I make that deal with you? (Cheers and applause.) That’s the deal.” I was there, I agreed, so here goes... I'm giving up Google and going to use Live Search for one week. For one week I have the opportunity to provide feedback every time...
You have designed Aggregations for your cube, but how do you know that they are currently processed? Hopefully you have your processing routines setup in production so that your indexes are always kept processed. But maybe you are working in a development environment or you are performance tuning that you want to double check that your aggregations are currently processed. It is not immediately obvious how you can figure if the indexes for a partition or a set of partitions are processed as this...
Updated and improved for Team System 2008. http://www.codeplex.com/TFSEventHandler The TFS Event Handler makes it easier to notify users of changes to Work Items in Team Foundation Server. You will no longer need to add individual alerts to users. It is developed in .NET 3.5 SP1 for Team Foundation Server 2008 and is deployed as a system service. I have added support for groups. If you add a TFS group into the Assigned To drop down all members of that group will receive notifications! You will need...
Here are the slides from the presentation I gave to the UK BizTalk User group (now the UK SOA/BPM group). I gave two sessions – firstly an overview of the work we had done at my current employer and then running through some code, configuration and live demos. The download location might change if I find a more suitable home. The initial project was part of the Integration story in rolling out a global instance of SAP. The first interfaces we put live were those between the UK Warehouse Management...
In this issue: Alex Golesh, Silverlight SDK, John Stockton, Page Brooks(2), Mike Snow(2), Terence Tsang(2), Adam Kinney, Shawn Wildermuth, Jesse Liberty, and Jonathan van de Veen. Shoutouts: Adam Kinney has some good comments about a much-viewed Surface video: Extending the Surface experience in the BMW app. Jesse Liberty waxes poetical about divElements, and it looks like with good reason :) SandDock for Silverlight – Commercial floating windows Corey Schuman is going to be on GeekSpeak on the 10th:...
My pics from the Venus, Jupiter, Moon conjunction. Venus moved significantly over the last few days, as much as two full moon widths a night. It was joined by the crscent moon on Dec 1. 11/26/2008 - Jupiter on top, Venus on the bottom 11/26/2008 - Jupiter on top, Venus on the bottom 11/29/2008 - Jupiter on top, Venus still on the bottom 12/01/2008 - Just after sunset. Big change in two nights. Crescent moon on left, Venus on bottom, Jupiter on right. 12/01/2008 - Starting to see some Earthshine on...
Here is something that you may not be aware of. In .NET, if you use regular expressions, your code would perform much better if you minimize the times when you instantiate a Regex object. For example, if you have a regular expression that you use repetitively throughout your code, you should construct the Regex object once and reuse it throughout your code. You'd be surprised how much overhead the Regex constructor requires. Additionally, you should always pre-compile your regular expressions as...
Now Microsoft Chart controls Add-on for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 can be used for charting needs. Prerequisite: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and Microsoft Chart Controls for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5. For sample Environment for Microsoft Chart Controls check here. The sample environment contains over 200 samples for both ASP.NET and Windows Forms. See the following related links: Chart Controls for .NET Framework Chart Controls for .NET Framework Language Pack Chart Controls Add-on for...
There are several possibilities, however one of the most common reasons is the combination of Internet Explorer version 7 and the Google Desktop/Toolbar. For some reason, the plugin does not seem to be compatible. Try removing the Google Desktop and/or Toolar...
Just wanted to write a bit about the upcoming Day of .NET conference coming soon to St. Louis. We are putting the final pieces together this week and currently have nearly 200 people registered. The conference will be on December 13th, 2008 and, if you want more information or just want to register, please check out the site at www.StLouisDayOfDotNet.com. If you are waiting to register, please be aware that our registration closes on Monday, December 8th and we cannot accept on-site registrations....
The eznwupd.exe program is an update program for the greater spyware program called eznorun.exe. To get rid of this menace, do the following: Go to c:\Program Files\ezn. Delete the directory. Empty the trash to actually remove it. Go to run at the start menu and type: regedit. Search for and remove all keys, values, etc. to eznorun.exe Go to to run at the start menu and type: msconfig. Go to the Startup tab. Delete the eznorum.exe entry. That should do it! You should no longer see this message appearing...
I'm really not obsessed with performance -- honest! However, when a co-worker asked me today exception handling was an acceptable way of coding defensively, my reaction was rather predictable. Exceptions are pure evil, and should be... well, exceptional. Yes, you guessed it. The next question was "How bad is try/catch really?" The short answer is that is involves minimal overhead... unless an exception is thrown. In that case, the .NET exception handling mechanism does a few nice things, like providing...
Hi everyone, It's been a fair few weeks since I last wrote a blog post so I thought I'd scribble one together very quickly! Things are going great at the moment. I work for a fantastic (and I truly mean fantastic) marketing firm in central Bristol as a software developer, helping with the development of their award-winning direct marketing and response tracking products! And they're getting me a company laptop - I feel important... *warm glow inside*! I've just moved the site to a new server (fully...
Yes that is not a mistake. One of the interesting things we are doing at Microsoft is bringing the User Experience folks into focus for our application development platform. One of my good friends has started a blog to cover this emerging area. Check it out when you get a chance. Happy Coding...
This looks pretty cool. I wonder if they are using devices with GPS's...
Recently the Exchange server at work has been upgraded to an Exchange 2007 SP1 server. With this has come the chance to finally get rid of the MAPI CDO solutions we have, by switching to using Exchange Web Services (EWS). I've spent quite a while looking for easy ways of doing this, and for the majority of the time, it seems ok, but the biggest issue I've had (and unfortunately the solution I needed) was accessing public folders. Specifically public folders in a hierarchy. Public Folders\ \Testing...
I was working on a small web application that was built very quickly using Linq to SQL and I wanted to ensure that a particular page wasn't loading more data than needed into memory. This particular page had a simple GridView, and in the one and only item template, there was an ASP.Net Image (along with some other stuff). The data source was of type IQueryable<Article> and an Article may have zero to many ArticleImages. A relationship was present in the dbml, so the ArticleImages were generated...
Hi!, In first post I wrote, that I'll write posts from beggining, so that newbies could start writing MVC apps as my new posts would be coming. But I change my mind :D. We'll start from knowledge that is here. MVC pattern and ASP.NET MVC approach is something that you have to know, but you don't have to read other tutorials on asp.net/mvc, because we'll egzamine them in different way - understanding it from the total basics - looking at the MVC source code. So watch that video and next post I'll...
Welcome to my new blog about web technologies. Firstly, sorry for my poor english, I guess that sometimes it would be difficult for you to understand, what I wanted to say, but you should always try ;]. You know I'm from Poland and that's a country, where they teach as they wouldn't want you to know anything. Very sad country. But whatever happens, you must never give up. In next posts I'm gonna consider mainly ASP.NET MVC. Kinda new framework, as described by guys form m$ it's alternative approach...
To Use VS 2005 Web Deployment Projects 1. install VS 2005 Web Deployment Project add-in at "setup" link below a. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/asp.net/aa336619.aspx 2. In File Name Box - "*.*" -> Click Open Button 3. Select an available .wdproj file Other links: · http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/asp.net/aa336619.aspx · http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa479568.aspx...
I came across a requirement where we needed to create types dynamically based on XML Configuration files, so that in the furture new types are required we dont need to update the application again by creating a new class. The additional requirement was to populate the property names of the class based on the Cml configuration and its values using the Querystring values from the HttpWebRequest. I earlier thought about using Dynamic methods from .NET Framework 2.0, but that did not fit my purpose since...
This is a lot harder than it sounds. At first you think there will be a built in option with the Read Identities method on the IGroupSecurityService Interface, but you would be wrong! When capturing an event from Team Foundation Server you have access to a lot of information about the change, including the Display Name of the fields for Assigned To and Changed By. But what if you allow Work Items to be assigned to groups! First, lets achieve that. Create a group called “Program Management” on a project...
So, got the Motorola MC75 working with its inbuilt camera. However during a demo the other day I inadvertently clicked my camera capture button on a device that doesn't have an inbuilt camera (doh). Of course my application then blew up. So here's the code that performs a camera capture but also detects (well catches) if the device doesn't have one... try { CameraCaptureDialog ccd = new CameraCaptureDialog(); ccd.InitialDirectory = @"\"; ccd.DefaultFileName = "test.jpg"; ccd.Mode = CameraCaptureMode.Still;...
Tampa CodeCamp is this weekend. Great speakers and great sessions, see you there! 12/6/2008 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM Welcome Time: 12/6/2008 7:30 AM Eastern Time K-FORCE BLDG 1001 E Palm Ave Tampa, FL , FL 33605 Be sure to sign up for this event ASAP at - http://www.tampacodecamp.com/...
The 2009 date has been set for January 24, 2009 from 8:00 - 4:30 at New Horizons of MN. Details are being finalized and as soon as the registration page is open, we will post the information here SharePoint Camps are about the SharePoint community at large. They are meant to be a place for developers, administrators and any SharePoint user to come and learn from their peers. Topics are always based on community interest and never determined by anyone other than the community. Registration link: http://www.nhmn.com/Courses/CrsDetail.aspx?C=NHTCSPCamp2...
To access a method from master page in the content page ensure first: The method in master page is declared as public than call this code from your content page code behind: MasterPageClassName MyMasterPage = (MasterPageClassName)Page.Master; MasterPageClassName.SetMenuToRegistered(); where: SetMenuToRegistered() - is a method positioned in the master page class...
Annual Holiday Networking Event Where: Eagan Community Center When: Tuesday, December 9, 2008, Special Time: 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Speaker: Sue Lindgren, YESS! Registration Link: http://www.ctamn.org/cde.cfm?event=219036 Are you as effective as you could be? Do you know what is holding you back or getting in your way so you can be effective? What is Emotional Intelligence? Event Notes: • Afternoon Event (3 p.m. to 6 p.m.) • Plenty of Networking Delight • Appetizers • Cash Bar (registration includes...
You're invited. Register at www.sharepointmn.com Please join us on Wednesday, December 10, for another opportunity to collaborate with experts on methods used to maximize the potential of the Microsoft Office SharePoint platform. Previous MNSPUG presenters will team to facilitate an open forum around the platform. Be sure to bring your questions and experience to participate in this dynamic discussion. Several subject areas within the SharePoint platform will be covered, including: • Planning •