Today is the start of me coming off of a client project that I have been on and off for years now. I really like the project and I tend to jump in when the client is planning some large items over the coming months. Sadly that reign has come to an end, and it’s off to different things. Regardless, a somewhat unique thing that we do as often as possible is work at the client’s location, their building, their office. While this provides enormous benefits when working with the client, it does mean that

If you read my previous post about dealing with SQLite and SQL CE, then you know that I am on a mission to get unit tests working correctly with a SQLite database. I decided to see if I could get “assembly retargeting” working. First, what is “retargeting”? .NET allows assemblies to be “redirected” in a sense when the platform is different. This is how the .NET Compact Framework actually works. All .NET CF assemblies are retargetable. In your application, you are

I don’t like to think of myself as a “C# Developer”. I prefer to think of myself as a “.NET Developer”, mainly because C# is not the only tool I know how to use. However, I primarily use C# as a language of choice because that’s the majority of what most .NET developers use, and I never had a reason to know or understand VB.NET. It’s not to say I was clueless about VB.NET, I’ve glanced at the syntax and I felt that it was similar enough to C# that I didn’t really need to get into the dirty details

The First Try As of late, if you for whatever reason on earth follow me on twitter, you might’ve picked up on the fact that I am working on a Windows Mobile project. Written in VB.NET. Here is my experience with working with a SQL database in the .NET Compact framework, and hopefully save someone some headaches. I naturally wanted to use SQL CE for a database. It comes out of the box, right? It’s made by the SQL team, which I usually have no problems with. SQL Server has been a solid Microsoft product

While it was leaked out via a Bit Torrent, as most things do these days (erm, Windows 7 “RTM” as people are calling it) I decided to wait until it was available to me under Microsoft Connect. Yesterday I got the chance to download and install it. I wanted to share my thoughts on it as well. Native x64 Yes, Office 2010 is now available to run x64. This surprised me actually, that’s a huge undertaking and I didn’t immediately see the benefit. However, people that spend their lives doing analysis and

While it was leaked out via a Bit Torrent, as most things do these days (erm, Windows 7 “RTM” as people are calling it) I decided to wait until it was available to me under Microsoft Connect. Yesterday I got the chance to download and install it. I wanted to share my thoughts on it as well. Native x64 Yes, Office 2010 is now available to run x64. This surprised me actually, that’s a huge undertaking and I didn’t immediately see the benefit. However, people that spend their lives doing analysis and

While it was leaked out via a Bit Torrent, as most things do these days (erm, Windows 7 “RTM” as people are calling it) I decided to wait until it was available to me under Microsoft Connect. Yesterday I got the chance to download and install it. I wanted to share my thoughts on it as well. Native x64 Yes, Office 2010 is now available to run x64. This surprised me actually, that’s a huge undertaking and I didn’t immediately see the benefit. However, people that spend their lives doing analysis and

We last left of here, http://msmvps.com/blogs/vcsjones/archive/2009/06/07/asp-net-ajax-4-0-client-template-rendering.aspx about a simple introduction to the AJAX 4.0 Client Template Rendering. I’d catch up on that one if you haven’t read it before you read this one. Our last example was pretty simple. We took a chunk of JSON, and displayed it in an unordered list with simple JavaScript and the AJAX Framework. Let’s take this a step further with actually manipulating the data. The framework allows

Recently I have been dabbling with the ASP.NET 4.0 Framework. There were two things that immediately got my interest: An actual new version of the CLR. More of come on that later… AJAX 4.0 Now, I didn’t mean to say I was pumped an excited about it, but a certain element caught my attention, and that is Client Rendering. This basically, allows you to bind simple HTML to JSON or a simple JavaScript array. The idea is interesting, but I wasn’t sure how well it’d play. To get started, I looked here:

As an ASP.NET Developer, not a designer, it’s pretty easy to write crappy HTML. As I have come to learn, content designers will hate you for that. One that has always fooled me is how to properly center content. Centered content is nice sometimes. It put information right in front of the users face, exactly where they expect it. HTML has come a long way since 2000, and it’s worth looking at some of the right and wrong ways to do it. Your designers will love you for it. The oldest, and simplest way