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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

Filtering data ADO.NET Synchronization Services

Published 13 November 7 9:20 PM | William

If you dabble in Orcas or are a data aficionado, then you have probably at least heard of Synchronization Services . If you haven't heard of it, let me try to pique your interest. The business case for Sync Services is simple. You have data in one...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Coding Techniques, ADO.NET Synchronization Services, .NET 3.0 Framework, DBServerSyncProvider, Synchronization Services, SyncAgent, Microsoft.Synchronization

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

Theory matters after all...

Published 8 August 7 4:53 AM | William

There are many discussions developers have with each other that always make for interesting discussions. One of the best ones is "How much does a Computer Science degree matter?" If you argue that it's really important, you'll invariably...

Filed under: News, Coding Techniques, Misc Technology, Cool Stuff

Coding Arguments - aka How to Start Religious Wars

Published 23 July 7 5:33 AM | William

I am lucky enough to work for a company that really encourages us to get together and learn/hang out etc. One way this happens is by Tech Nights. Basically, we have in office meetings which are recorded via Live Meeting, where someone picks a topic and...

Filed under: Data Access, Life in General, Coding Techniques

Programmatic Malpractice

Published 31 January 7 10:23 PM | William

In the category of "I couldn't make something like this up even if I tried" comes the following code. Rather than try to dissect what it is that's wrong with it, it's a lot easier to find what's right with it. If the person that...

Filed under: Coding Techniques, WTF

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

Cool things you can do with Windows Mobile

Published 24 October 6 1:11 AM | William

There's a lot of possiblity to create cool stuff like this on Windows Mobile . Devices are waiting for a compelling app and stuff like this, or like Casey often does are going to drive us to finding it (my money is on Casey to actuall invent it but...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Coding Techniques, Misc Technology

Differentiating between "Denormalization" and excuse making.

Published 27 September 6 6:47 AM | William

I've actually got a lot to discuss about database stuff but wanted to start out explaining a very basic concept. All me to disgress for a moment. I've worked at a few places where there were some Cobol/AS 400 developers that were quite full of...

Filed under: Data Access, Coding Techniques

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

Normalization really does matter

Published 7 September 6 3:30 PM | William

It seems like years ago, but I remember one of my professors giving us an assignment. It involved taking a database chock full of redundancies and writing the SQL Statements to make a few small updates. We thought it was an assignment to test our SQL...

Filed under: Data Access, 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

Stealing code ;-(

Published 3 July 6 11:45 PM | William

I don't know why I even let it bother me but a lot of times is still does. Usually starts out with me working on something, an article, a book, a newsgroup question. I start searching around and use words that I think describe what I'm looking for. Low...

Filed under: Life in General, Me, 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

Biztalk - What do you call a 'difficult' application

Published 15 June 6 3:19 AM | William

I think I'm going back into one of my hypomanic phases b/c everything seems so clear and I'm learning at an amazing pace. Back to Biztalk. Ok ok. Back in the day I was pretty big into Biztalk. For a while, it seemed like it was fizzling out and since...

Filed under: Coding Techniques, Biztalk, Biztalk Server