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There is a rather active anti-database movement afoot these days. I initially chalked this up to the same “XML is going to replace databases” craziness that I heard back in the 90s but you can’t argue with the successes that some Web...
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Over the past week I have taken and passed two certification exams, 70-503: WCF, and 70-529: Distributed Application Development. Rather than take the exams in the .NET framework version order of 70-529 then 70-503 for .NET 2 and then 3.5, I decided to...
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I recently set out to build a WPF application using the Composite Client Application Guidance (lovingly known as “Prism”) code base. Additionally, I wanted to make use of the Blacklight controls – specifically, the DragDockPanelHost and DragDockPanel...
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I’m impressed with the Android Dev Guide . It’s fairly comprehensive guide, however, I can say from personal experience that the Dev Guide is not complete in all areas. One key example is the section on developing on a device . I followed the instructions...
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Body: Although no beta code has been released to the public, and I personally have had no access to it via other channels, we know or can make some intelligent guesses about a few things. First, what we know: 64 Bit! SharePoint Server 2010 will be 64...
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Here is a scenario – I have two tables – Users and Phones. Users table has two columns that relate to Phones table – PrimaryPhone and SecondaryPhone. If you build an EF model with these two tables, you will end up with Users entity with two navigation...
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This is one of those blog posts that simply exist for the simple reason that if I run into this issue again I can find it later (and hopefully someone else will find it and it will help them too). I recently got a new G1 and I exported my contacts into...
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After working with Reporting Services since the beta product when it was code named ‘Rosetta’ I finally got my first look at using the Microsoft reporting feature that is part of Visual Studio. I have used the Crystal Reports option within Visual Studio...
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Tomorrow we have another Twin Cities Pragmatic Beer event at the Herkimer in Minneapolis (Uptown). Another name for this same event is the Twin Cities ALT.NET Beers. For more information on where the Herkimer is and what time things are going to get going,...
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Thanks to everyone who came out to the user group meeting. It was great talking to you all. The slides and sample code used tonight are included in this post. If you have any questions please drop me a line through my contact page. ColumbusPASS_Jun23_CDC.zip...
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Continuing on my path to LINQ greatness, I want to cover another topic that some people get confused over: LINQ’s First() vs. Single() . Both perform a particular task for us, but just by looking at the name you’d never know which one performed the action...
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When I speak on TFS - I always stress how important it is to keep up-to-date on the software. The features (not just bug fixes) in SP1 of TFS2008 were VERY significant. And heaven forbid being "stuck" on TFS 2005 (we all know what the conventional...
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In most code that you find that uses lists you will find something like this: if(products.Count() > 0) { // Do stuff } Personally, I’ve seen this literally thousands of times. While this works and gets the job done, there is one issue with this...
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Body: Two quick items: My slides from my PowerShell for SharePoint Developers presentation is here: SharePoint Saturday Chicago 2009 - PowerShell for SharePoint Developers (4.81 MB PDF). The next meeting of the Chicago SharePoint User Group is next week,...
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A quick post of something I get asked from time to time and have to pause to remember. To get the name of the current login use SYSTEM_USER To get the security context of the current login use CURRENT_USER. This function is equivalent to USER_NAME()....
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My wife and good friend have a G1 and I’m absolutely in love with the damn thing. I plan on getting one soon, however I’ve read a lot and some people are saying to wait for the MyTouch . However, this does not prevent me from getting my hands dirty with...
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I’ve death with numerous different advertisers and such over the few years I’ve had my blog. Just recently I spoke with the guys over at the Lounge and we decided to work together. I needed a low maintenance advertising system that could help with the...
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I have another DimeCast that went live this morning. This one is entitled “ Exploring Expressions with Spark .”. Here’s what we cover: ” We are going to take a look at the various different ways you can use Expressions with the Spark View engine. We are...
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The answer, in SQL Server 2008, is quite a few. A day or so ago Paul Randall tweeted about the lack of consistency within the column naming in system objects that reference databases (id or name). It got me to thinking about the ones I knew which naturally...
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I was recently was helping out a collague with an ASP.NET MVC problem and I was given a link to a solution. I opened it and got this message: Which ends up giving you the following in the solution explorer. The reason I’m getting this is because I never...
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I do a lot of development using VirtualPC images. It keeps my base laptop relatively clean and allows my VPC images to join client domains. Recently, I rolled on to a project that had a very large VHD file. The file was too large to...
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I have been using Entity framework as DAL for a CSLA for Silverlight based application. I have player a role in uncovering a number of issues that make it very hard to use in these circumstances. Here is my (surely incomplete) list. 1. Foreign keys handling....
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My current project has hit that interesting point where the database design is pretty stable and we?re starting to go at the objects in multiple directions with code. I?m really outside my comfort zone this time as we?re doing predominantly LINQ...
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I have a new DimeCast up! The title is above. In this DimeCast I cover … how to utilize both global variables and local variables. We will also take a look at how to create and use both strongly typed viewdata and weakly typed view data. To view...
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Hello Everyone! So im taking a break on WPF today to blog about LINQ and sorting stuff. We’ve all had to perform sorting at some point in time and sometimes a lot of adhoc, on the fly mechansims get built. So I wanted to come up with a way to provide...
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