August 2004 - Posts

More fun with the SqlCeResultSet

Published Wed, Aug 11 2004 2:34 | William

As Sam has pointed out , there's not a whole lot out there on this guy (see nothing). I'm going to get pretty in depth with it tomorrow if the audience is interested . If not, oh well. Anyway, this is a totally different beast then what you're used to...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Data Access

Am I really this much of a Dork?

Published Tue, Aug 10 2004 19:39 | William

Today was really really rough. Normally I don't suffer from insecurity or any of that crap but today it's just been overboard. This morning I woke up ready to kick some a33 and was feeling great. I tried to spend the day keeping my mind off of the web...

Filed under: Data Access

Sycophant Cult Update!!!!

Published Tue, Aug 10 2004 16:23 | William

As you may http://msmvps.com/williamryan/archive/2004/06/01/7447.aspx , I annointed myself Supreme All Knowing Casey Chesnut Sycophant Cult leader a while back. I know, I pretty much suck as a cult leader but I've got a lot on my plate these days. Anyway...

Filed under: Compact Framework

Back on the Grid again

Published Tue, Aug 10 2004 12:11 | William

Since last Friday, I've been pretty much off of the grid. Went to my parent's vacation home on St. Helena Island and they live in this part of it that's partially impervious to cell phone signals. They aren't computer lovers so there's no broadband either...

Angel and Sushil both have some COOL new stuff

Published Thu, Aug 5 2004 1:15 | William

Just checked out Angel's new stuff as well as Sushil's . Ok, this is just some poached code - all credit goes to Angel for this one... New Perf Monitors [Yep, it's this easy]; //I added this after the Fact - I had it outside the using block b/c I was...

Filed under: Data Access

"Like being in a candle store without a pipe bomb"

Published Wed, Aug 4 2004 22:17 | William

I had a brain shut down again tonight and it basically sucked. I just went through LiveMeeting training yesterday and have been trying to get things ready for my webcast (Yes, I'm plugging it again) . In the last week I've shoved more into my brain than...

Damn spammers are creative

Published Wed, Aug 4 2004 19:39 | William

Andy just posted this piece by Michael G on some spam he received. I have to admit, I never ever would have expected this

Filed under: Humor

My ResultSet is better than your!

Published Tue, Aug 3 2004 23:35 | William

For years, we Compact Framework guys have been working with a cool but much smaller framework than developers who work exclusively with the Full Framework. “That's not supported” or “You'll need to P/Invoke it”. So finally, FINALLY...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Data Access

Casey's link to IceRocket

Published Mon, Aug 2 2004 22:45 | William

Normally I would have thought it was lame, but it was on www.brains-n-brawn.com and content there goes from ultra cool to cannot describe cool. So Casey posts this link to Mark Cubans' http://www.blogmaverick.com/entry/1511731206339485/ blog entry about...

Filed under: News

Turning your iPOD into a universal remote

Published Sun, Aug 1 2004 19:02 | William

Even though I really want to see PMC give it a a33 kicking - the iPOD is definitely an impressive (and increasingly popular) gadget. Phil Torrone is even more impressive. Every time I read Phil's stuff I have found myself thinking “How is he that...

Filed under: News

An RSS Consumer in 7 lines of code thanks to ADO.NET 2.0

Published Sun, Aug 1 2004 11:55 | William

And I actually could have done it in 4 lines if I was really trying ;-) DataGrid dg = new DataGrid(); //Could to w/ Designer XmlTextReader xr = new XmlTextReader(@"http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/rss.xml"); DataSet ds = new DataSet("TestSet"); ds.ReadXml...

Filed under: Data Access

Greg's been slacking a little bit

Published Sun, Aug 1 2004 11:27 | William

Darn it Greg , you get me in the habit of reading your blog and then you go and get busy with work and stuff like that. Actually though, I wasn't aware of the 20th Anniversary Edition of the Mythical Man Month but looks like something worth picking up...

Filed under: News

This is WHY VB gets a bad rap

Published Sun, Aug 1 2004 11:20 | William

But in all fairness, this could also be done in C#. While you're there, make sure you don't miss this piece of logical wizardry. Now don't get me wrong- writing in a language doesn't make for good code. And I probably hate the VB.NET/C# debate worse than...

Filed under: Humor