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Looking for some .NET Developers

Published Fri, Jun 6 2008 22:19 | William

A client of mine located in the Aiken/Columbia South Carolina Area has asked me if I had any friends who are .NET Developers and looking for a job. They are looking for at least one Junior Developer, on Mid-Level Developer and several Senior developers...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Data Access, Web Services / WSE, .NET Basics, .NET General, Coding Techniques, Misc Technology, Biztalk, WPF, WCF, .NET 3.0 Framework, WIX, Sql Server Integration Services, SSIS, Silverlight, Sql Server, Sql Server 2008, Sharepoint, LINQ To ADO.NET, .NET 3.5 Framework, LINQ, LINQ Training, ADO.NET 3.5, C# 3.5, Windows Mobile, Job Stuff

Comment of the week - Sql Server Reporting Services vs. Crystal

Published Wed, Sep 27 2006 6:27 | William

A while ago, I posted this about how much a55 I think Crystal Reports sucks. A long time ago, back at like v.7, I thought Crystal was a decent product. And to be honest, it still is a decent product. But it comes with a lot of baggage and has a lot that...

Filed under: Humor, Data Access, .NET General, Coding Techniques, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

Using the SqlConnectionStringBuilder to guard against Connection String Injection Attacks

Published Sun, Jan 15 2006 14:40 | William

One new object in the ADO.NET 2.0 Library worth taking a look at is the SqlConnectionStringBuilder . Considering how late it is in the game, you are probably aware of the dangers of Sql Injection Attacks . One the off chance you aren't, let me throw in...

Filed under: Data Access, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005

Pimping RowState in ADO.NET 2.0

Published Sat, Jan 14 2006 23:20 | William

There are two new methods for the DataRow object in ADO.NET 2.0 that haven't gotten much coverage but can be quite useful. The two methods are SetAdded and SetModified . I consider myself to be an ADO.NET afficionado and until last week, I wasn't aware...

Filed under: Data Access, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005

Sahil goes big time.

Published Sat, Dec 17 2005 22:57 | William

Well I knew it was coming for a while, but all I can say is it couldn't happen to a more deserving guy . Congrats Sahil . If they're half as good as good as his book that's resplendent in every way, they'll be a must have for any serious ADO.NET developer...

Filed under: Data Access, Books, .NET General

System.Data.FillLoadOption

Published Fri, Jul 29 2005 21:18 | William

System.Data.FillLoadOption is one of the cool new features of the ADO.NET 2.0 SqlDataAdapter. In the new framework, we have a lot more control over the inner workings of the DataAdapter and hopefully it will shed it's stereotype of being a “Black...

Filed under: Data Access, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005

A priceless discussion on DataSets vs. BusinessObjects

Published Wed, Jun 8 2005 8:33 | William

A whole bunch of heavy hitters are mixing it up here . My take on it is that discussions like this are not for the lightweights. Step into that discussion and you BETTER know what you're talking about.

Filed under: Data Access, .NET General

If the past is any indicator...

Published Mon, May 16 2005 20:54 | William

then this this is damned sure going to be a must have book!

Filed under: Data Access, Books, .NET General

With ADO.NET DataTables Remove != Delete

Published Tue, May 10 2005 19:39 | William

One of the very first mistakes I made when I was learning ADO.NET was confusing DataTable.Select with Remove. I wrote this a while ago which explains the distinction in detail. Bill Vaughn was kind enough to set me straight on the issue. Anyway, in a...

Filed under: Data Access, .NET General, Coding Techniques

My Homie Sahil on Bridging Relational, Object and XML Data Models

Published Fri, Mar 25 2005 10:26 | William

Sahil has a really amazing writing style - on that allows him to make just about any topic, no matter how dull, interesting. And watch out when he actually has an interesting topic to discuss . Excellent job my friend!

Filed under: Data Access, .NET General

The Welcomed Demise of Access

Published Mon, Feb 7 2005 20:14 | William

It's only Monday and it's already been one of those weeks... Anyway, I needed to just come home and distract myself but my ADD was kicking in hard. If you are unfamiliar with ADD - it's a fancy term “I can't f***cking concentrate on anything and...

Filed under: Data Access, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005

http://www.everythingado.net

Published Sun, Jan 30 2005 2:45 | William

Well, I finally bit the bullet and purchased my site from Brinkster. I'm going to be hosting blogs for a few of my disaffected DNJ friends - but well, due to the nature of the site - I'm not handing them out to everyone - If I know you, or you can convince...

Filed under: News, Humor, Compact Framework, Data Access, MVP Stuff, Me, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques, Mindless Babbling

My Homey Moved

Published Thu, Jan 27 2005 22:21 | William

My homey Sahil moved his blog - and well, now I can actually read it without a parameter exception!

Filed under: News, Data Access, .NET General

Requests for Content

Published Sun, Jan 23 2005 22:40 | William

I've finally started to get a little free time these days and I'm going to be doing some quality Travelling in the next few weeks - if you're interested in something in particular, I'm taking requests. Anything ADO.NET, Anything Compact Framework, (Not...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Data Access, Remoting, MVP Stuff, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques

Data Design Time Changes Beta1 to Beta2 from the VB.NET Team

Published Fri, Jan 14 2005 18:55 | William

Definitely looks interesting...

Filed under: Data Access, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005

SqlConnectionStringBuilder

Published Mon, Jan 3 2005 19:03 | William

You know, working with connection strings has never been 'hard' but it's always been a pain in the ass- especially when you know all the information but you don't remember the exact order. This is hardly the most impressive thing I've come across in ADO...

Filed under: Data Access, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005

Andres on Remoting Datasets...

Published Thu, Dec 16 2004 12:40 | William

Andres Aguiar , the superbrain behind Deklarit responds to Rory's comments on Stuart's post . <<As I cannot comment in Stuart's blog, I'll do it here ;) a) He's right about that if you are not going to update data, then it's probably not a good...

Filed under: Data Access, Remoting, Web Services / WSE, .NET General, Coding Techniques

Remoting DataSets - and DataSets from Web Services

Published Sun, Dec 12 2004 13:42 | William

I just read Sahil's post about using RemotingFormat and binary serialization for datasets. I've had similar findings although I don't remember the file size staying the same - I'm pretty sure that it got smaller but I was using pretty big datasets and...

Filed under: Data Access, .NET General

Bad Advice

Published Thu, Dec 9 2004 0:28 | William

UHHHHHHHHH - I can't sleep so I'm grouchy - but Poor Chris - bad advice is worse than none at all. If Scott wants to correct Norman, at least he could be polite about it - AND PROVIDE A GOOD ANSWER! Here's my answer: Once you have the dataset, you can...

Filed under: Data Access, .NET General

Sushil's Back - Notification Support in SqlClient Managed Provider

Published Tue, Dec 7 2004 20:55 | William

It's good to see Sushil's blogging again and he's back with a vengeance. This feature is so cool mainly because it's pretty straightforward to use. The only downside is that I can almost feel the avalanche of newsgroup posts from people getting a little...

Filed under: Data Access, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005