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I'll be doing the presentation next Monday

Published 26 January 7 12:39 AM | William

If you're going to be in Atlanta next week, stop by the .NET User Group Presentation . As you probably know already, I tend toward non mainstream technologies. This presentation is going to be on Windows Cardspace , Windows Communication Foundation and...

Filed under: Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques, Misc Technology, WPF, Cardspace, WCF

How to be really annoying with Pocket Outlook

Published 25 January 7 6:8 AM | William

If you've been following my coding tonight, you can probably tell what I'm up to. If you call me regularly, you probably are already familiar with this little project, aka the CuckooBot. He's up to Version 4.0 and about to be released into the wild. Yes...

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

Password Protection != Encryption on SqlCe

Published 25 January 7 3:50 AM | William

I know this probably seems pretty obvious, but believe it or not, it's a very common area of confusion. Take a look at the following declaration: String ConnectionString = String .Format( @"Data Source=\BlueCuckoo.sdf;password={0}" , "SomeValue" ); SqlCeEngine...

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

SMS Messages with Windows Mobile 5.0

Published 25 January 7 2:40 AM | William

A while ago, I was playing around creating a bot, a Snarkier version of the Mobile Secretary Application . Well, it was late and I got sloppy. So basically, my little app sent out a text message to everyone on one of my company's Outlook distribution...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

A very slick Smartphone Emulator feature

Published 25 January 7 1:25 AM | William

I'm finishing up some SmartPhone articles I should have posted soon but figured I could discuss this one very quickly. Any professional application should be thoroughly tested on a physical device that it will be run on. However that's not practical for...

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

Musings on the database formerly known as Sql Everywhere

Published 2 November 6 2:53 AM | William

The IM volume I received today about the Rollback to SqlCE issue was enough to border on overwhelming. Between PMs and some lazy SOB CRM guy trying to get me to do all his work for him, it was hard focusing on work today. (And seriously, if you are a...

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

Transferring data around with ADO.NET 2.0 - SqlBulkCopy

Published 26 August 6 5:3 PM | William

I'm working at a client on a data migration and found some results that were surprising. I expected there to be a difference but not one quite this large... Synopsis of Problem: Right now I'm working on a rather complex migration from a bunch of disparate...

Filed under: Data Access, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques

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

2.0 Framwork Enhancements on System.XML - And misc ramblings

Published 19 August 5 9:53 PM | William

For the past few weeks, I've been upskilling as the lower cased one calls it. I'm also to get back into the groove at the newsgroups and about the only thing I'm slacking on is support over at my beloved Devbuzz which I'll be getting back into this weekend...

Filed under: Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques

OOP, Generics and a little Humor

Published 25 July 5 7:15 PM | William

Well, I decided to show a few examples with a little humor. I know a few of you thought my “Shocker” post was in poor taste, and I apologize if you did, but obviously many people liked it. Anyway, I'm gonig to show a few examples of how to...

Filed under: Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques

What's wrong with this Transaction?

Published 15 April 5 6:55 PM | William

I've seen this come up in newsgroups quite a bit and figured that although it's not exactly hot news, it's worth mentioning. Let's say that you have a DataSet and you want your updates to work transactionally [meaining that they all succeed or fail together...

Filed under: Data Access, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques

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

Published 30 March 5 8:11 PM | 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

Assertion Giddyness

Published 29 March 5 3:53 PM | William

I know I already talked about this and I babble about assertions all the time, but I keep having my Assertions fail exactl where they should in my ASP.NET 2.0 app, and it is just too cool! That I know of, there's nothing that even comes close to Assertions...

Filed under: Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques

The Utter Coolness of Sql Mobile

Published 29 March 5 3:44 PM | 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

Please do this at home...

Published 17 February 5 1:16 AM | William

Using new VS.NET 2005 - I have a challenge - I beat the CAPTCHA twice today - using a tool that was avaialble in VS.NET and previous versions of Pocket PC.. Replicate this behavior using a Test project and you get a prize!

Filed under: Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques

http://www.everythingado.net

Published 30 January 5 2:45 AM | 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 23 January 5 10:40 PM | 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

BinaryFormatter in ADO.NET 2.0

Published 23 January 5 10:26 PM | William

This is hardly hot off of the press, but I had a few questions about it and figured I'd post it. There is a new RemotingFormat property w/ DataSets in ADO.NET 2.0 - and depending on how you are trying to work things, the differences can be profound. Note...

Filed under: Data Access, Remoting, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques