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Thursday, December 06, 2007 12:08 AM

Dallas InstallFest at NDDNUG - Santa's Got Nothing On Us

What a great meeting! Tonight, we ( http://www.nddnug.net ) took out the year with a bang! We held InstallFest and gave away a ton of software, hardware and T-shirts. We had anywhere from 225 to 300 people who: ate 100 pizzas played one of several Xbox...
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Sunday, November 11, 2007 4:03 PM

Gospel of the GUID - Answers to your Burning Questions, Comments and Insults.

Gospel of the GUID - Answers to your Burning Questions, Comments and Insults. First and foremost, I was blown away with the number of nice responses and questions to my Gospel of the GUID post. For the most part, I got a lot of “wow, I never thought of...
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Sunday, November 04, 2007 10:35 PM

The Gospel of the GUID - And Why It Matters!

The Gospel of the GUID There is only one commandment in the Gospel of the GUID: I. Thou shalt always use a GUID to uniquely identify a row in a table. Whenever I hire a new member for my team, this is one of the first rules that I teach them. At first...
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Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:41 PM

How to log in to the "Orcas" - January 2007 Community Technology Preview (CTP) Base Image

If you were like me and downloaded the CTP today, all anxious to give it a whirl, you probably found out like I did, that the credentials that the web page state to use DON'T WORK! The website says: VPC Credentials: Username: Administrator Password...
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Friday, December 08, 2006 6:20 PM

DLINQ Gotcha: How to fix the DataContext.SubmitChanges() causing an "ObjectDisposedException"

If you are receiving this error, when trying to persist your data with a call to SubmitChanges() on your datacontext, you will find that not only can you not trap it, it blows up your running instance of your webserver… dandy! It took a lot research...
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Monday, November 27, 2006 7:05 PM

How to easily deal with Nullable Types

If you have to work with mapping data to objects you know what a pain working with nulls has been historically. In the past, your database can deal with nulls very easy but your object model could not. As developers and architects, we would have to come...
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Thursday, November 23, 2006 8:45 AM

The best way to show code in your blog

Forget what I said earlier ... get this: http://www.jtleigh.com/people/colin/software/CopySourceAsHtml/ This is a much better solution. For example: public IQueryable < Property > SecuredProperties { get { IQueryable < Property > q; //if the...
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006 11:41 AM

How to turn that that ugly URL into something memorable... a.k.a Url Remapping in ASP.NET

Have you ever had some horrific URL that you needed to email, tell someone over the phone or just type yourself? Wouldn’t it be nice if instead of http://www.nddnug.net/Meeting.aspx?ID=fa92013d-9d75-43b5-b611-55ce3ec1ea18 you could just have a little...
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006 9:51 AM

Free File conversions via Zamzar

Have you ever needed to convert a document, a pic or some other digital doo-hickey and you just don't have the software on hand to do it. I know I have been working on some website for a client, and invariably they send me something in a digital form...
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Sunday, November 19, 2006 11:50 PM

Working with CSS and ASP.NET

If you are like us , you get someone else to do your skins for your website. When doing so, they may be unaware of how skinning, themes etc work in the ASP.NET world. As a matter of fact, the better they are, the less they will know about it. As I work...
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