Mads Nissen

Martin is speculating about young developers platform preference. Beeing a young developer at 23 and just two months out of school I can somewhat relate to Martins assumptions. Among most "regular computer geeks" in my school there were virtually none that perferred Microsoft technology. They all wanted java and linux. These were naturally also often some of the best students (although some were just lost). The Norwegian demoscene (scene.org), which is among the most active in the world, is dominated by youth, and java have the majority of votes. It's the "doItFromTheCore" and "the less user friendly the better" mentality.

on something else than a string the MSDataSetGenerator will fail to generate any code file at all. Usually when errors are detected in the XSD both the xsx and cs file is generated with only an error message, but now this did not happen.

I recently made a fairly simple crud app in asp.net. User management was the theme, and a whoole lotta columns was supposed to be edited in a nice and tidy fashion. Of course the standard TextBox is not databindable and I ended up with approximately 200 lines looking like this:

Yesterday I decided to fiddle around with MS Visio for Enterprise Architects database modelling tools. After drawing up and validating a pretty straight-forward use case i created a new Database Model Diagram Template from visio. After telling Visio to use the Sql Server ODBC driver I got all the Sql datatypes correct for my Entity construction. Relationships creates foreign keys automatically.

[PrincipalPermission(SecurityAction.Demand, Authenticated=true, Role = "Administrator")]

I just killed a System.StackOverflowException that occured when calling the GetChanges() method on my typed Dataset.

Windows 2003 server seems to be doing well and the server base to run .NET applications gets bigger -> Good news! 300% increase in active sites running 2003 in three months. And 8000 Windows 2003 servers have replaced Linux. More at Netcraft. Combined with Microsofts $90M deal with US homeland security they should be pretty happy these days.

Every time I've embarked on ASP.NET projects the dynamically loaded controls have been the big bad wolf. I always seem to loose track of load and reload and state somewhere along the way. A few weeks ago I searched for a containercontrol that handeled this issue and only found a dead link to a component by Denis Bauer.