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Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation

Published Sun, Feb 18 2007 23:41 | William

I went on a book binge this week and have had my nose buried in WCF all week. There's a lot of really good stuff out there, but without a doubt, Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation by Chris Peiris is probably my favorite. Overall, the book...

Filed under: Books, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005, WCF, WIndows Communication Foundation, .NET 3.0 Framework

Could not complete the operation due to error 80041001

Published Thu, Jul 6 2006 6:34 | William

Just as an FYI about this... If you are using the documentation for WSE 3.0 and trying opening it after installing IE7 - you get an error with the following message "Could not complete the operation due to error 80041001" This is a total drag b/c all...

Filed under: Web Services / WSE, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005

Do you have any ideas about preparation for 70-529?

Published Wed, Jun 28 2006 3:30 | William

As you may know, I'm coauthoring http://www.microsoft.com/learning/exams/70-529.asp . In particular, I'm covering the following objectives: Create and configure an XML Web service method. Create a public method. Attach the WebMethodAttribute attribute...

Filed under: Web Services / WSE, Books, .NET Basics, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques, Misc Technology, Certification

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

Misc Observations on Biztalk

Published Wed, Nov 30 2005 9:36 | William

Yesterday, to my surprise, there was quite a bit of hype about Biztalk 2006. As far as the marketing hype went, I'll go so far as to say that it was featured almost as prominently as Visual Studio 2005 and Sql Server 2005. There were a few differences...

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

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

Sql Server 2005 - Biztalk 2006 will be here soon....

Published Tue, Jun 7 2005 10:38 | William

Greetings, It is official - the countdown to launch has begun! During my Tech.Ed keynote this morning, I announced that SQL Server(TM) 2005, Visual Studio ® 2005 and BizTalk ® Server 2006 will launch the week of November 7. This will be the...

Filed under: News, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005

Musings over code camp

Published Sun, May 1 2005 21:33 | William

The idea for Code Camps is really cool. Basically, you have a bunch of developers meet at a Microsoft office and have other developers do in depth code presentations. I had two presentations at the Charlotte code camp which sort of sucked b/c I missed...

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

C# and VB.NET playing nice in the ASP.NET 2.0 Playground

Published Wed, Mar 30 2005 20:11 | William

I've been finding so much cool sh1t in the newest build of Whidbey that it's hard to keep up. It's really amazing how, when you actually have to build something professionally, you come across so much more than you ever would just tinkering through it...

Filed under: .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques

The Utter Coolness of Sql Mobile

Published Tue, Mar 29 2005 15:44 | William

I've been writing for a while about this Proof of Concept I've been doing at work and today, I just finished a major milestone. The only thing left to do now is Ink Enable the thing and actually, that's the easy part. I can't really divulge the code I...

Filed under: Compact Framework, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques

Assertion Coolness in ASP.NET 2.0

Published Mon, Mar 28 2005 12:11 | William

As I mentioned in a few other posts, I'm currently working on this app that's going to run w/ SQL Mobile on a Tablet PC as well as a Web equivalent. The big challenge of the Proof of Concept is that the same code will run on a Tablet PC/Web App/Desktop...

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

Excel Application Yuckyness

Published Thu, Feb 17 2005 11:46 | William

If you've done much w/ VBA in .NET - you are probably familiar with the old Ghost entries of Excel or Word for instance that stay in your process list even after the application closes. There are ways to deal with it of course - but it's a pain. Started...

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

Unit Testing in Visual Studio .NET 2005

Published Wed, Feb 16 2005 18:51 | William

Today has been like some sort of rebuttal to the entire last week - everything went right and then some. Well, not totally but pretty close anyway. As I was screwing around with the new Magneto bits - or should I say sitting there wondering what it would...

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

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

Sql Mobile - Too Cool for words

Published Sun, Feb 6 2005 13:13 | William

I was in the middle of writing an article on Sql Mobile before Kim dragged me away ;-). The new Management Tools for Yukon alone are enough to make me love the product. The Sql Server team definitely did their homework well on this one b/c the whole UI...

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

Unable to Start Debugging in ASP.NET Applications.

Published Thu, Feb 3 2005 15:59 | William

Well, it's happened to my on a few machines so I figured I'd mention it. You're going along, your ASP.NET apps are working fine other than the bugs you've coded in them, and then you reboot one day and poof - as soon as you try to compile you get a “Unable...

Filed under: News, .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

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