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Looking for some .NET Developers

Published 6 June 8 10:19 PM | 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

Free Silverlight Training

Published 14 August 7 8:53 PM | William

My friend Brian Madsen who owns CSharpZealot has teamed up with InnerWorkings to extend a really slick offer for Free Silverlight Training for CSharpZealot members . In addition, Shawn Wildermuth has been way ahead of the crowd when it comes to Silverlight...

Filed under: Life in General, .NET Basics, Me, .NET General, Coding Techniques, Misc Technology, WPF, .NET 3.0 Framework, Silverlight, WPF/E

Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation

Published 18 February 7 11:41 PM | 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

Leviton, Microsoft's Z-Wave/Windows Solutions

Published 28 January 7 10:37 PM | William

This is very very cool.

Filed under: News, Compact Framework, .NET General, Mindless Babbling

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

Published 27 September 6 6:27 AM | 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

Could not complete the operation due to error 80041001

Published 6 July 6 6:34 AM | 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 28 June 6 3:30 AM | 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

I'll be speaking at Speech Server Days

Published 19 April 6 1:33 PM | William

I'll be speaking at Two Speech Server Days Events . I have one presentation on May 3 in Atlanta and one in Ft. Lauderdale on June 2nd. Marshall Harrison is going to be speaking as well at the Ft. Lauderdale event, so finally I get to meet him. If you...

Filed under: Speech Server, Me, .NET General

Regular Expression Recipes for Windows Developers: A Problem-Solution Approach (A Problem-Solution Approach)

Published 16 April 6 7:52 PM | William

My buddy Brian Davis is probably one of the most kick a55 regex gurus I've ever come across. That's created a little bit of a problem b/c whenever I need a regex, even a really complex one, he can usually whip it up in his head faster than I can describe...

Filed under: Books, .NET General, Coding Techniques

Coming out of hybernation

Published 26 March 6 12:4 AM | William

Recently I took a blog hiatus. The main reason (if anyone cares) is b/c I've been stretched thin on time. I have three books I'm working on, was working on a side contract, started working as a Moderator on the .NET Framework Data Access and Storage and...

Filed under: Me, .NET General, Mindless Babbling

Seasons Changing

Published 26 February 6 3:43 PM | William

Today one of my Tobin Titus is packing up for his move to Microsoft. At the same time, another good buddy, Chris Williams is moving to Greenville. Although I live in Augusta, I spend most of my time here in Greenville. Chump Change , since I know you...

Filed under: Books, Me, .NET General, Misc Technology

Lunch with Jeffrey Richter

Published 26 February 6 1:14 AM | William

Well, I've been so busy that I hardly realize how fast life is passing me by. Anyway, I had a chance to take off some time and do lunch with Jeffrey Richter . Got to hang out with a lot of great people. Shawn Wildermuth , GridViewGirl , Todd Fine, Doug...

Filed under: Life in General, Me, .NET General

Using the SqlConnectionStringBuilder to guard against Connection String Injection Attacks

Published 15 January 6 2:40 PM | 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 14 January 6 11:20 PM | 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

The Data Diva's new Blog

Published 18 December 5 5:20 AM | William

Was just checking through the referrers and saw a link from Julia's other blog . I've been a big Julia Lerman since I first misspelled her name , plain and simply put, she rocks. She's got a great article on DevLife and well, I couldn't agree more. Anyway...

Filed under: .NET General

Sahil goes big time.

Published 17 December 5 10:57 PM | 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

Misc Observations on Biztalk

Published 30 November 5 9:36 AM | 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

If you want to prove you're a real programmer

Published 7 November 5 4:51 PM | William

Benchmarking things like this and this is definitely one way to do it. I shouldn't be surprised though, Roland has been rolling in cool posts and projects recently.

Filed under: Remoting, .NET General, Coding Techniques

Overriding ToString()

Published 31 July 5 12:28 AM | William

I had mentioned reading Effective C#, 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C# back a few posts ago . So I decided to show off a few of the techniques there as well as some new C# features and began with this post. . Anyway, when I started writing out the...

Filed under: Humor, .NET General, Coding Techniques

System.Data.FillLoadOption

Published 29 July 5 9:18 PM | 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