November 2004 - Posts

Wednesday, November 24, 2004 8:45 PM

DataReaders, Stored Procedures and Output parameters

If you're running a stored procedure via ExecuteReader and the stored procedure has some output parameters, you won't be able to access the values of the output parameters until you're done with the IDataReader. Thanks to Bill Vaughn for an MSDN article that cleared this up for me. See the section "Using a DataReader to Process the RETURN Value and OUTPUT Parameters". Note how he calls the DataReader's Close() method before accessing the output or return values.
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Wednesday, November 17, 2004 9:28 AM

Michigan's second .NET To Go Roadshow

If you missed the October ".NET To Go Mobility Roadshow" held at Microsoft's Detroit office in Southfield, MI don't worry. You've got another chance to attend the roadshow in Grand Rapids, MI on Dec. 2nd, 2004. You'll get the same great content as well as a chance to win a mobile device.

And my good friend Josh Holmes will be presenting at this one. Don't miss it. Go the Microsoft Events page to sign up.
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Monday, November 15, 2004 10:57 PM

Tom Barnaby at this month's User Group!

This month our local .NET User Group, GANG, has an INETA speaker -- Tom Barnaby. The topic is "Understanding Web Services" and should be a good one for those who haven't jumped into web services yet. If you're in the metro-Detroit area this Wednesday, stop by the Microsoft offices in Southfield for some free Pizza and good .NET stuff!
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Monday, November 08, 2004 10:55 PM

Getting back in the swing of things

Man -- a whole month without posting. That was painful. I've been so busy at work and home that I haven't fired up RSSBandit for weeks. But I ran it tonight and let it fill up with tons of news that I'm slowly scanning.

As for .NET, I learned something new today -- unfortunately it wasn't the answer I was looking for. It seems that in the current (1.x) version of the .NET framework, the ServiceInstaller class doesn't allow you to provide command-line arguments to your service. Not a big deal -- I can get them in with a registry tweak, but it would have been nice if the framework had supported it.

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