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I have a new talk I am giving this Fall at user groups called Bigger, Stronger, Faster : Making Quality .NET Applications Fast and Bug Free. The premise behind the talk is really an answer to a common question I get, ‘How do you create web sites so fast?’.
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So I have been having a problem designing a rather odd LINQ to EF statement the past week and I decided to contact my friend on the Entity Framework team, Erick Thompson. he said oh yah, I created something like what you are looking for in the 101 sample
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I am sure just about any of us that have done any development work against a database, and who hasn’t, has come across this error, ‘String or binary data would be truncated’. This is really a warning more than it is an error, but will
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Mainstream support for .NET 1.1 is retiring on October 14, 2008 . What this means is if you have not installed at least Visual Studio 200 5 and .NET 2.0 by now, you really need to. Yes you can buy an extended support contract for mega bucks, but seriously
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Dealing with Null values (nothing in VB.NET) is a common problem for programmers of any stripe. Null dates stored in the database seem to be a common issue developers experience when they start dealing with null values. Null values in the database for
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I was perusing the ASP.NET forums tonight and saw an entry where the person was asking on help on getting the number of days in a month in .NET . While the asker was making a simple mistake and could not see the forest for the trees, it got me thinking
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I am not going to even bother talking about what is in it, I am reading it like everyone else! But go get it, install it into your favorite virtual machine development environment and see for yourself. Scott Gu Talks about Visual Studio 2008/3.5 SP1 Download
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At least in my history of programming I have always concatenated paths as I build them in my code. A good example of this is deciding where to store uploaded photos in a photo album. There are really two paths that need to be managed, the physical path
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Thought I would bring this back again and see if it was popular or not this time around. So many things to link to now that MIX is done. IE 8 Installation Information Text and Data Compression - Kind of interesting that we only gain compression on the
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A recent InfoWorld article, by Bill Snyder, points out that Java is quickly becoming outdated , so much so that it calls Java the new Cobol. It goes on to point out several times that .NET is quickly replacing Java as the platform of choice. I am not
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I never, and I mean never use the System.Web.UI.Page class as the class I inherit my Web Forms. I have a base class that I inherit from the Page class that has a set of methods and properties that I reuse many times over. Often I create more classes that
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I read a lot of programming books, I have two books shelves to prove it. I even have my own book on my shelves. But I listen to a lot of Podcasts each week. Obviously I listen to the Pwop Productions line up, thank you Carl and Richard. Those two along
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For some reason I started reviewing some of my friend's Brad Abrams old Blog entries. It was one of those things I thought I would see what he was saying 2-3 years ago about things that are now released and established. I thought it might give me some
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Digging through some stuff on Brad's Blog history I found this interesting post on DateTime formatting. He was referring to something on Julie Lerman's old Blog, but it is not there anymore. But Brad has a very long set of datetime formatting code that
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This summer I got to work on a project that stretched my experience a little by requiring that I learn to use the compression classes in the .NET framework. There is not a whole lot of stuff out there on using these classes so I thought I would attempt
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