It's been a few days
Ok, so it has been a few days since I posted. I really wanted to keep a daily record of what has been going on, but I have been so swamped the only thing I have wanted to look at was my pillow.
I have had my head buried deep in docs trying to get a better understanding of Active Directory and how I can manipulate it with .Net. There are hundreds of articles and MSDN articles, but nothing really comes close to what I want to do. I did find something at Planet Source Code from a guy named Craig Aroa, his file is here, called Active Directory Helper. Now it doesn't have everything that I need but it will give me a start.
On a different subject. As I have been thinking about developing in dot net, I keep forgetting that dot net is the perfect platform to create mobile applications. I threw together a 5 minute app on my Dell Axim this morning that basically allowed me to connect to a database, run a query and see the results in a grid. Yes I know that is way too simple. But that's the point. dot net and the VS IDE makes it so easy to quickly develop prototypes or even full blown applications with little coding. All I had to do was tell the database object where to connect and what query to execute. Easy. 5 minutes later I was looking at data from my SQL Server 2000. It was amazing. That's what I love so much about dot net. It's why I have struggled so long with deciding to learn something like Java.
I have also been encouraged to link to other dot net blogs. I would love to. When I find ones that interest me you can be assured I will include a link. That's all for now.
--Thom