Archives
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Whidbey...I was in the dark
Just announced Tuesday, I am no longer in the dark
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Fat Datasets and Renoting
We are passing some fairly large datsets around using remoting with IIS as the host. We have seen a lot of performance issues with doing this. My research has revealed that a DataSet hard-codes the serialization as a diffgram regardless of the characteristics of the underlying stream. I have heard that MS recognizes the design issue with this and is working on doing something.
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Performance Tips
I stumbled on this today. Rather dated, but none the less worth looking over.
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Snob posting follow-up
In follow-up, I think it is important to remember this is a public forum and all of us on here are intelligent, well-spoken folks who wish to share their experiences, else we would not be blogging. I do not see where any good can come from a blog that suggests one is a lesser because of a language choice, or for that matter, for anything we do in our development lives.
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Mr Rogers
I was saddened to hear the news
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Sick and tired of C# snobs
Why do I continue to read blogs from C, C++ and C# snobs that have to degrade and knock down VB developers? http://dotnetweblogs.com/AKrowczyk/posts/post.aspx?ID=3126
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DevelopMentor Technical Book Series
Looks like DM is giving some of these away for free:
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What, another Microsoft bashing
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Serializing & Deserializing an Array of Structures
I banged my head on this for 2 hours yesterday. I am passing an array of Structures over http to a remoted object using the Binary Formatter. Well, seems there is a bug with doing this.
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Passing SqlParameters to a remote object by value...kinda
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KISS
I just read an article where KISS states pyro techy stuff is safe. Hey, if KISS says they are safe, then they are safe, being the pyro experts that they are.
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Blog Compendlum
I found this rather interesting
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Top 10 ADO.NET Tips
Nice article by Dino Esposito
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SqlClient Types and remoting
I am going nuts over here. First, I run into all kinds of remoting issues with SqlParameter types. Now, I discover SqlConnection types are not remotable!!
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Database Projects Template
I just discovered the Database Project Template in the VS.IDE. So far, it looks very nice for organizing and managing our database objects and integrating with VSS.
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Remoting with SqlParameters
So, I have developed a very nice data access component (SqlClient specific) that we have been using locally with great success. This week, I started testing using this same component remotely over http (IIS as the host). Some of the methods of this component expect SqlParameter types.
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Snow Photos
I saw Sam's photos....wow...we were suppost to get that In Richmond, VA. We did not...thank God. Sam, I can mail you my shovel! Lucky for us our neighbor has one of those all terrain things with a snow blade and he loves to plow!
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I am still here
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Data Access Portal
This is a nice sample on building a DataAccess portal. It also provides some tips (indirectly) on how a smart client can determine if it needs to connect to a server object locally or remotely.
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How quickly things change...
Sowe lost our T1 connection today. I am using an Erols dialup. I think I actually saw dust blow out the back of my machine when the modem fire up. I had to spray some ether in the back to get it to go. Wow is this slow. I can remember 2-3 years ago modem was all I had and I never paid much attention to how slow it was.
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VB6 Code Advisor
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COMInterop quirks
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To web service or to remote, that is the question
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My book came in the mail...
Its official, my book copies came in today's mail. Wow, it is pretty cool seeing your name on the cover of a technical book. Someone actually allowed me to share my thoughts and actually published them...now that is scary!
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Developer Tools
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Reflection...finally
Besides the LoadFrom method call for our Smart Client, I finally get another chance to use reflection! I wanted to create a data driven About form for our app. The current one is all hard-coded. Rather than read this from a table or xml file. everything I needed was in the assembly file. So, easy enough I do this:
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Hackers
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IIS is winning the fight
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Finally, a Smart Client 'Real' Example
I think I have seen enough 'Show Form' smart client\no-touch deployment examples...here is a more thorough one on smart clients.
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Be a Better Programmer
So, even you can be a better programmer.
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Bug Catcher
A .NET Bug Catcher?
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Music, books and memory
Why is it I can drop a CD in my CD Player that I have not listened to in 10 years and know every meaningless word to every meaningless song, but I can read a technical book tonight, and forget what I read tomorrow and have to pick the book back up to recall? Can someone out there start writing songs related to .NET? Would it not be too cool to navigate over to Amazon, do a search on ".NET CLR" and get 10 hits under Music!!
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Why do we Blog
I read brad's posting http://dotnetguy.techieswithcats.com/archives/002085.shtml and it made me think, why do I blog, why do others blog? I have to agree with Brad, it is therpeutic. I also keep a personal blog, http://dotnetrocks.blogspot.com/ , so my family and friends can keep up with Amy and I. Its almost like letting the world know who you are and what you are all about. I hope this particular blog will get me to blog more about .net, however, I have a long ways to go there!
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Another test
This is another NewsGator test
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Test
This is a test to see if NewsGator is working.
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Win Forms Custom Controls
I have spent the past few days setting up a template for building custom controls, using inheritance. It took me a while to figure this out, but, with the help of some gurus, I now have a nice template. Here it is for those interested. Simply replace the Inherits statement with whatever win form control you want to be your base. I also built a DefaultProperties class which allows me to set the properties for all controls in one place. I only have this working for Font so far. Bits and pieces of this are well documented, it just me a while to put those pieces together...yeah, I am a little slow!
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How Honored am I
Wow, how honored am I to be able to blog here with the true .net gurus! Hopefully I can post some interesting stuff that someone out there will find helpful or, at least entertaining!