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A couple of months ago an opportunity unexpectedly made its way into my life that would offer something different for my career. At first I ignored it, but after a while I started thinking about the possibilities before me. There were a couple of job openings at this “little” company, which you may have heard of before, Microsoft, that intrigued me. I began asking myself, “Self, would you ever leave Sparkhound and if you would what would the job have to be like.” Well, I wasn’t exactly sure, but...
Do you know what happens when you create a new instance of a class? Why do we need a value type and a reference type? Do you know what is meant when the .NET framework is referred to as a “managed” platform? What is managed versus unmanaged code? Why do we need a .NET runtime? What is a memory leak; is that like an oil leak? All of these are questions that you should be able to answer as a Microsoft developer. If you can’t answer them all, then keep reading as the next series of research blogs that...
In the world of custom web application development a critical component of our success is the hosting environment and services. We can choose to deploy our web applications using 3rd party hosting providers such as GoDaddy.com, Rackspace, DiscountASP.NET, or another provider, or we can choose to deploy to on premise servers either virtual or physical. In either case the web application must be serviced up to consumers by a web server software such as Internet Information Service (IIS), which is included...
I have stepped it up a notch and am speaking at numerous user groups and technical conferences in the South East in the coming months. These include .NET & SharePoint user groups as well as SQL Saturday and SharePoint Saturday all day conferences. I will also be submitting to a couple of more regional events that I’m considering including Houston TechFest. If you are in the area, I’d love to have you come by to check out these events. Also, if you are interested in having me present at your event,...
Mike Huguet Mike Huguet is a Developer Premier Field Engineer for Microsoft. He is an active member of the IT community as the President of the Baton Rouge .NET User Group, a founding member of the Baton Rouge SQL Saturday event, and an avid speaker at all day conferences and user groups. Mike was also a member of the Microsoft SharePoint Patterns and Practices Advisory team for their most recent release for SharePoint 2010. He has a software development background and has been delivering solutions...
My speaker bio General Technology Related Topics Tips for IT Career Advancement As you progress through your career there are many paths in which to take. Inevitably you will choose a path that is incorrect or reach a point in which you feel as though you are stalled. Mike has been there as well. He will share some lessons learned, advice, and tips that have led to a successful career. Hopefully, you will find something useful to help guide you in your career. Session Level: Beginner .NET Related...
This is my first real go round with Expression Blend and SketchFlow and it is taking quite a while to get used to it. After several iterations of names and screen dragging, dropping in the SketchFlow Map, and adding a few elements to some screens, I decided to try and run my recently created Silverlight SketchFlow project. To my surprise I received error message and a broken build. How could I get a build break if I didn’t even write any code? Man, maybe I should stick to Visual Studio. My co-workers...
For my first “real” attempt at creating a business application using Silverlight I decided to use WCF RIA Services, Silverlight 4.0, and Visual Studio.NET 2010. What easier way to get started than through a template provided by VS.NET 2010, right? Well, in its effort to make it easier it also create some headaches. Sometimes abstraction can add a learning curve as well. In this case it created some headache for me on this project. As an IT consultant for small to enterprise level business most of...
During the deployment testing of an integration component with Commerce Server 2009’s Order Service I encountered the following error at a client site "Column requires a valid DataType." It was occuring right at the point when deserializing the dataset from the GetPurchaseOrderAsDataSet() call. We did not encounter this problem at all on any of the workstations. The call stack was essentially of no help. After some usage of FileMon and a few other diagnostics tools it struck me that maybe there was...
I found it very odd that this was not available when doing some search engine queries. My requirement was to take in an AD user name and query SharePoint 2010 to determine the SharePoint groups in which the account belongs. The code was to run from within a RIA Authentication Service, which is code run on a server and is not likely on the SharePoint server. This code will also work with SharePoint 2007 (WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007). You will need to add a Web Reference to http(s)://<spservername&...
After the second installment of our Speaker Idol format, I was asked by INETA to write an article for the January newsletter targeting other user group leaders. It came out great. The article describes the event format and some of our lessons learned. You can view the article at http://ineta.org/newsletter... There is a lovely mug shot. That serves me right for not having a more professional picture ready and had to get someone to take a picture in the office with...
For the first time in my career I have attended a major conference and it was well worth the wait. I had a handful of major objectives in attending of which all were met. Gain an understanding of Azure and how we can leverage it for our small and mid market customers. Gain more detailed insight into changes in SharePoint 2010 that will impact customizations and solutions that we provide our customers. Have some dialog with some of the MS data team members and others to understand MS’ vision for data...
Today I took on the challenge of improving the performance of a set of repository retrieval methods that have been a bottleneck for our system for the past week. Here were the requirements and details for the most challenging method: There is a Clinic and a Service table with a joining table for the many-to-many relationship, ClinicService. A clinic provides one to many services and a service can be provided by one to many clinics. The method accepts in a list of primary key integer values for the...
I’ll be very busy over the coming weeks wrapping up a big project for a client so I won’t have much time to write. Here is a brief update on happenings. This week I was able to purchase my PDC 2009 ticket. I am very much looking forward to this event as there are a LOT of exciting topics with the upcoming releases, Office 2010, VSTS 2010, and .NET 4.0. I’ll be pretty busy after this event doing presentations at work, for clients, and a few user groups in the area after learning more at the PDC. Next...
It has been a long time coming and I was finally able to find a diamond in the rough by locating a wrapper for the “challenging” yet powerful Lists.asmx service provided by WSS 3.0. On my current project we had the need to interact with WSS to pull back some document templates that reside in a document library. It only made sense for the implementation of this repository to use Lists.asmx or interact with a custom service that uses the SharePoint object model. I figured by now someone had created...
The Baton Rouge Area SQL Server User Group has started up a technology live meeting during lunch time. Please see Patrick Leblanc’s blog for more details in participating both as a presenter and as a participate. This is available from anywhere and is not restricted to Louisiana. Also, even though it has “SQL” in the name the topics can veer off of SQL Server topics such as a topic on .NET development. This is a great avenue to test out your presentation skills since it is a short live meeting event....
This past week I was reminded of the “fun” in which hosting an application within SharePoint can present. We are developing a custom application for our client in which some areas must reside within a SharePoint environment. We did quite a bit of our development in this first iteration within a web application in order to pull things together and present the client with a working end-to-end “prototype.” The architecture is composed of several layers all of which will be “in process” communications...
We found that in some cases you need to consider using Uri.EscapeDataString. In our case we are encrypting the querystring and found that UrlDecode is converting a plus (+) to space. This was causing us errors during decryption. Using Uri’s Escape and UnescapeDataString makes sense for us when constructing a custom querystring in the URL. Here are some details from another blogger… http://blog.nerdbank.net/20... Technorati Tags: .NET,ASP.NET...
Here I am after a week of putting Windows 7 to the test while working frantically on a tight timeline project and am happy to say that all is well. It has crashed a time or two and I still cannot install Visio 2007 or SQL Server 2008 Developer Edition, but I am still pleased. It seems to be faster than XP and I quickly got the hang of using the UI and the search feature. There are quite a few handy conveniences that will make life easier such as the RDP client has a recently used list. I went ahead...
After a long break, I’m back at taking MS cert exams. I recently passed the MS 070-541 exam, MS WSS 3.0 App Dev. Man, SharePoint is interesting. Some of the questions were tricky, but in the end with a good bit of hands on real-world experience and a few weeks of reading and studying the test was passed. It is interesting how you can take one exam and become an MCTS. I’ve already started studying for the first of two upgrade exams from .NET MCSD to VS 2005 MCP Enterprise. I have less than three weeks...
Want a free IDE for the .NET 2.0 release? You can get it, SharpDevelp 2.0.
My co-worker Steve wrote this cool VS.NET add-in that adds SQL intellisense. I've used it at work and it seems to work pretty well. One bug that I'm aware of is the list of columns for a table doesn't display properly for an update statement. All in all a great tool. Check it out. This hasn't been tested in VS.NET 2000 or 2005 so beware. SqlAssist
Any of you ever installed a distributed multi-machine system? How did you do it? Did you use an off-the-shelf (OTS) product such as WISE or InstallShield? Well, my company was faced with this decision last year. Here is my story, but I'd like to hear yours. The company that I work for recently released our newest product that is a highly distributed Windows system with tons of C++ COM dlls, DCOM proxies, Registry entries, message queues (MSMQ), Services, .NET Interop, and lots of databases (including...