Category: .NET Code Related

Its Labor Day…. so that means I labor today

4 September, 2007 (13:01) | General, .NET Tools, .NET Code Related | No comments

After returning from a wonderful vacation, its back to business. We are currently working on an interesting WCF project in which I actually get to dogfood our service implementation. At least thats the plan. Working with a distributed team, Jeff one of my guys,  is located in Northern California. He happens to be responsible for huge […]

We aim to please…

29 July, 2007 (19:44) | General, .NET Tools, .NET Code Related | No comments

Have you ever gotten into a situation where your customers development team uses tools that you know full well are not best of breed, but you go along with it and use them for their project because…. well they are the customer and pay the bills. I have precisely such a case. The customers […]

WPF Master Pages

10 July, 2007 (11:03) | .NET Code Related | No comments

Karin Huber describes her Master Pages idea for WPF applications in an article on CodeProject. Why does that remind me so much of ASP.NET 1.1 home made master pages? Good article !

Thanks Bob

22 May, 2007 (04:53) | .NET, .NET Code Related | No comments

For pointing out the following:
“….A tip o’ the hat to Ayande Rahien for having the guts to point out today that the stuff that comes out of Microsoft’s Patterns and Practices (P&P) group is mostly over-abstracted, over-architected crap. He said it nicer than that, and he rightly pointed out that it’s not that the […]

Debug Statements and Trace Statements

14 May, 2007 (07:45) | .NET Code Related, Asp.Net 2.o | No comments

dnrTV has a very nice episode full of information on using Debug.Writeline and Trace Statements to help debug applications. I continue to be blown away occassionally by the depth of Scotts knowledge.
Watch the show here

Rockford Lhotka - CSLA .NET 3.0 test release #3 available

29 April, 2007 (06:10) | .NET, .NET Tools, .NET Code Related, Software Architecture | No comments

While I haven’t used CSLA in a few years, I have always looked to Rocky and the code in his library as great examples of how to structure frameworks and how to use certain technologies. For example for ASP.NET 2.0 Rocky went ahead and worked on a custom DataSourceControl which was (to me) very trail-blazing. […]

Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Top Ten Signs Your Software Project is Doomed

25 March, 2007 (07:56) | General, .NET Code Related, Software Architecture | No comments

Dare added together the some of his experiences. You would be surprised how many projects I’ve seen like this. I especially like the piece on Schedule Chicken. Its fantastic.
I think this list is almost as great as Spolsky’s top 10 check list for tools and process.
Link here…..

The daily handful of links

26 October, 2006 (19:05) | .NET, .NET Tools, .NET Code Related, Asp.Net 2.o | No comments

Codeproject article on serializing a custom class (Via Frans Bouma)
Another drop in the CSS Friendly Adapter Toolkit. Its a nice way of changing the html/css output for server controls.It brings their output more in line with current CSS practices.
Ryan Farley discusses RSS Feeds in IE and Vista. Both have built in FeedReader classes.
Scott […]

The most links for one post

21 October, 2006 (19:11) | .NET, .NET Tools, .NET Code Related, Asp.Net 2.o, SQL Server | 34 comments

My collection of interesting links has been growing for weeks and I haven’t had the time to post them. So here they are in one massive list.

Daniel Zeiss is on rev 9 of his major Ajax framework comparison. Great stuff.
Today I installed ScrewTurn Wiki in 10 minutes (as opposed to an hour for […]

IoC - Been there - done that - have a whole framework and more of it

22 September, 2006 (11:56) | .NET, .NET Tools, .NET Code Related | No comments

Thomas and Josh are stoked about the IoC pattern found in the Castle framework project. As a result of their excitement they’ve posted a nifty little example on The Joy of Code.
I have had IoC incorporated in our PathNet framework for over 2 years now. It is very useful - even though the naming […]

Tools And Hacks - a place were religious wars are fought

21 July, 2006 (19:39) | .NET, .NET Tools, .NET Code Related, Software Architecture | No comments

I’d like to invite you to keep an eye on Dr. Tools and Mr. Hacks. Look to it for some irreverent treatment of some of the more sacred cows of our industry. For example buzz words that confuse people. The inaugural post deals with one of the more sexy topics d’jour – Inversion of Control […]

A small link fest

18 July, 2006 (06:33) | .NET, .NET Tools, .NET Code Related | No comments

“…Cool so when the President dies you can take his place ? “  – my daughter’s comments upon reading my title (VP) in an email signature line….

A very funny Wiki discussing programming.
Sahil Malik writes about web parts. (I still haven’t done anything with them yet)
Jeff Prosies has some nice tips on ASP.NET performance
Streamlined […]

Link O Rama

20 June, 2006 (05:16) | General, .NET, .NET Tools, .NET Code Related, Asp.Net 2.o | No comments

Via Jason Haley – WebServiceStudio, a small utility program that can be used to test web services interactively. Might be fun to try out.
Poor Man’s Camtasia . Yes Software produces a screenshot animation tool that costs only $50..00 and can be used to produce software demo’s and training snippets.
AJAX and the market saturation of […]

The Code Project - Introducing TaHoGen - An Open Source Implementation of a CodeSmith-Style Code Generation Engine

31 August, 2005 (05:48) | .NET Tools, .NET Code Related | No comments

A few weeks ago I blogged about my dissappointment with CodeSmith. At the time my buddy Dan suggested that it would be easy to write a replacement using Eclipse and a couple of other free tools available in the Java world. It appears that may not even be necessary. Today I came across TahoGen which […]

More than one way to do this

16 August, 2005 (16:38) | .NET Code Related | 1 comment

Today I came across Milan Negovan’s test of provider patterns and the time one might save in instantiating it from a cache.
Why even go there? The system I’ve worked with recently that utilized providers all over the place simply instantiated them via a singleton that loads when the app starts. ( I […]

Rob Caron’s Blog - A Team System Nexus : Suggested Reading - 2005-07-31

14 August, 2005 (09:26) | .NET Code Related | No comments

OK just call me a linkaholic. I look at my blog as a reference tool as much as a soap box thatI can stand on and espouse my wisdom. So here are some more links - this time from Rob Caron.
Love it!
Link here

101 Samples for Visual Studio 2005

14 August, 2005 (09:20) | .NET Code Related | No comments

101 Samples, in both Visual Basic and C#, featuring many of the new features available with Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0.
Lets hope the link doesnt get stale. Just as they did in VS 2003, here are some samples for VS 2005. Funny thing is I never used the 2003 ones. They […]

Know Thy Code: Simplify Data Layer Unit Testing using Enterprise Services — MSDN Magazine, June 2005

3 June, 2005 (04:46) | .NET, .NET Code Related | No comments

Roy Osherove discusses the uses of Enterprise Services (Transactions) in a database connected test scenario. The idea is that restoring even a small SQL Server db to a nown state before each test can take a loooong time. So…. transactions to the rescue. Nice idea. Read More

Microsoft listened - thats nice

23 May, 2005 (14:59) | General, .NET Code Related, Asp.Net 2.o | 1 comment

It appears that MS not only provided VS 2005 with a new “Object Datasource” - allowing me to bind controls to business objects, MS also has become more and more vocal about the need of using proper domain objects instead of datasets. Thats nice. After 3+ years of railing against datasets as the “cure-all of […]

SQLConnectionBuilder Class

17 May, 2005 (18:54) | General, .NET Code Related, Asp.Net 2.o | No comments

So there I was perusing the Beta MSDN Documentation when I came across this little ditty.
MS has finally decided to give us a class that lets us deal with a connection string in terms of properties as opposed to a straight out string. So now you can do stuff like “builder.Password = someNewPassword”.
Wadda ya […]