Mads Nissen

Yup. That's right. You've been a good boy (or girl) and annotated your typed dataset XSD with codegen:nullValue attributes to instruct the codegenerator in how to handle DBNull values. And you actually thought the MSDataSetGenerator would care? Well it does, if you add the minOccurs="0" aswell. Otherwise nothing happens.

Ever wondered how to construct multitable DataSets in a proper manner? Whether to use one dataadapter or several? Just found this one on MSDN:

When working with Java at least one thing is pretty straight forward. You use packages and they have to map directly to directories on the harddrive. .NET is nicer and allows you to do whatever with sourcefiles, namespaces and project files. This can cause a real mess though, if you don't have a well-thought policy on how it should be done.

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Seems like tools for PDF creation in .NET is popping up like mushrooms (norwegian expression). Thomas Johansen commented the native way of doing it back in feb. I did a scan in march and looked into NFop. Fabrices SharpToolbox has a growing list. Recently I discovered PdfCreator on gotdotnet written by Serdar Dirican, which is a free, great reporting tool with designer support for VS.NET. This one is a goodie. What it doesn't support although, is xsl transformations, so this must be done in code.

As mentioned earlier, I'm going to the westcoast of the US this fall to attend OOPSLA. Somehow they've managed to place this on the same dates as PDC. I want to be able to see both, but programming backpackers can't even afford the exhibition-only pass at PDC. Anyone know of a contest, lottery or something I can attend to win a ticket?

I've been using ASP.NET applications as remoting clients for a while now. Recently I wanted one of the applications to also act as a server and I wanted to expose a remoted object from the ASP.NET application. This is a bit tricky.

Last week I completed my degree: Bachelor of Information Systems! Last friday we celebrated the accomplishment in Oslo. As class president I hosted the celebration dinner and festivities. The party was a smashing success with live band, standup and tapas.