I wanted to direct everyone to some links that came up over the weekend. The first is a link from Scott Gu's blog. SSW has released some pretty extensive coding standards. Check them out here. I consider myself a good developer, but I know I have a lot to learn, as does a good portion of the industry. Second, there has been some news about Microsoft releasing their internal documentation compiler, Sandcastle. Check out their MSDN Blog and download the first CTP. Also, I'm working on a test skin for...
Things have been a bit crazy the last couple of days (my wife is pregnant and there have been a few complications), but I wanted to share some links I've come across the last couple of days: Video - Visual Studio 2005 for Database Professionals (MS Channel 9) Implementing Role Based Security with ASP.NET using Windows Authentication and SQL Server (From ScottGu's Blog) Free web site templates - Open Source Web Designs Chris Technorati : .NET, ASP.NET, Database Professionals, Microsoft, Open Source,...
I just finished another article - Launching a desktop application from ASP.NET using Remoting – An Experiment. It's an app I wrote a while back as a “Proof of Concept” project. I hope everyone enjoys it! Chris
Introduction This article covers an application that was written as a “Proof of Concept”, testing the ability to trigger the launch of an application from a web application. The application is also a bit of a practice in Remoting, a subject that I have not explored very much. The application is intended to work within an Intranet environment as it would not work correctly within an Internet environment. In addition to the main subject, it covers creating remoting proxies to different...
As you may know, I recently finished an article - Sending an Email in Visual Studio 2005 – The System.Net.Mail.MailMessage class. Well, the people over at Only4Gurus.com happened to read about it and decided they wanted to include it in their next newsletter! I'll make sure to post when the newsletter is out. Chris
I've just finished an example on Exporting data to CSV and included a small application that I wrote. Enjoy! Chris
Once again, the article took much less time than I anticipated. Enjoy! Sending an Email in Visual Studio 2005 – The System.Net.Mail.MailMessage class Chris
Introduction Among the many changes to .NET in 2.0, there was an overhaul of the classes for sending E-Mail. For those of you unfamiliar with the new System.Net.Mail classes, or those of you trying to send mail for the first time, this article is for you! I’ll be specifically targeting sending mail through Exchange, so you may need to make some small changes if you’re using another type of server. What has changed? The most obvious change to sending mail in VS 2005 is that the classes...
I finished orientation for my new job yesterday. I'll be starting Hanover County Public Schools on their first big .NET project. It'll be my first exposure with IBM DB2, but hopefully that will eventually go away to be replaced with SQL Server or Oracle. In other news, I've seen almost 180 hits on my articles that I published last week! That's certainly better than I expected. No feedback yet, so I'm not sure if that's good or bad. I've started work on my next article, sending email in .NET 2.0....
Introduction This 3 article series will cover inserting data into SQL Server, without the help of Visual Studio’s drag and drop controls and configuration wizards. A special emphasis will be placed on its application within a tiered environment. Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 Part 3 – Executing the Insert Now that we’ve covered creating a stored procedure and creating a connection to the database, we’re about to get to the most important part of this article –...
I've just wrapped up the second part of my articles on Inserting into SQL Server without the VS Designer. This is only my second article, so comments are welcome! Inserting into SQL Server, without the Designer - Part 2 - Creating a Connection And if you haven't read part 1, you can find it here: Inserting into SQL Server, without the Designer - Part 1 – Creating a Stored Procedure Chris...
Introduction This 3 article series will cover inserting data into SQL Server, without the help of Visual Studio’s drag and drop controls and configuration wizards. A special emphasis will be placed on its application within a tiered environment. Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 Part 2 – Creating a Connection Now that we have a stored procedure, we need to be able to connect to our database. I’ll cover a brief overview of a SQL connection string, some basics about the SqlConnection...
I've posted my first article, the first in a set of 3. Please check it out! I expect to have part 2 done by Friday. Inserting into SQL Server, without the Designer - Part 1 – Creating a Stored Procedure Chris
Introduction This 3 article series will cover inserting data into SQL Server, without the help of Visual Studio’s drag and drop controls and configuration wizards. A special emphasis will be placed on its application within a tiered environment. Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 Part 1 – Creating a Stored Procedure While inline SQL may be an easy way to access databases, it’s far from ideal. Stored procedures are the recommended method of SQL Server access. They protect you from...