Long time, no Blogs

So, I have been quite the quiet Blogger.  Been on vacation and we are also cranking away trying to get our first release out.  We have been living in  ADO.NET, BindingContext, Threading, Stored proc and User|Custom Control world.  One thing for sure, MS got it right with DataBinding and BindingContext.  Wow, how sweet this is and how much time and effort it has saved us.  We are using Janus's GridEX for our Grids.  All I can say is buy it now.  Do not waste your time with the .NET DataGrid (WinForms).

Our app pulls back a massive Dataset on the initial load. This was taking 6-7 seconds.  Using Threading, we are now spawning off many worker threads in the background to retrieve data the user does not need immediately when the app loads.  Doing this has cut 3-4 seconds off our app start up time.  Wow, threads scared me in VB 6.0, now, what a wonderful thing.  

We still have our headaches with the IDE and countless mini-dumps. We have to blow away our obj folders 2-3 times a day.  Still having problems with Project references and the compiler getting confused.  Hopefully this will be fixed in the next release.

Remove these headaches, and VS 2003 gets a A+.  Hovering around a B+ - A- for now though!

Scott, can we get some aspweblog blogger gear like Blogger is selling?

https://www.googlestore.com/cgi-bin/googlestore/GO0068.html

Go Agassi, Go Roddick, Go Capriati !!!

 

 

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2 Comments

  • I would settle for some .Net gear. I can't believe there isn't any.





    Regards,


    Paul Speranza

  • Our main problem is with Project References. It seems the compiler has a bug with these and sometimes does not compile the projects in the right order. We see build errors like "variable not declared" when it is, or "control not declared' when it is. MS's suggestion was to use File References when we see this. So far, so good. We also see "unable to write to .pdb...". deleting the obj folder for the project in question fixes this.

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