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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

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

Professional Microsoft SmartPhone Programming

Published 23 January 7 12:59 AM | William

I just got a copy of Professional Microsoft SmartPhone Programming and all I can say is NICE! I always worried that the first real SmartPhone book would not go into enough depth to be useful. Not an issue here. Basically, the book is a list of "What would...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Books, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Misc Technology

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

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

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

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

All Express Products will be free for a year.

Published 7 November 5 5:38 PM | William

Read on

Filed under: Visual Studio .NET 2005

SqlBulkCopy

Published 21 August 5 5:33 PM | William

Kim just got a new Media Center PC and I loaded the latest Visual Studio 2005 bits on it. Got a little frustrated with XPath so I took a little while away to see what's going on with the ADO.NET 2.0 Library. When I had played with the SqlBulkCopy before...

Filed under: Data Access, Visual Studio .NET 2005

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

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

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

Oracle 10g Lite ADO.NET Adapter

Published 18 July 5 10:36 PM | William

Ok, so I read about it on Mike's as well as the Compact Framework Team but I sure can't find it anywhere. I'm probably just having a case of idiocy flare up, but I've been trying to find it for 30 minutes now. If you know where I can grab it, please let...

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