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So, all you SOA guru's out there, here's a good one for you. You have 10 days to build a website that generates dynamic content from a SQL Server database. The general idea is to have a data access layer that returns XML and for the page engine to provide XSLT to put this content into some web pages. So how should the data access be done? Datareaders, datasets, XMLDatareaders ? Can you help? To get the full story get yourself over to http://www.mybusines ... [ read more ]
Hey Ho and a bucket of prawns, Wow - have I been having some fun lately. Loads of GDI, a bit of managed DirectX and messing around with DirectShow - all in the .NET environment and getting some pretty spanking results. Anyhoo, today's chunk of wisdom - if you can call it that - is about the PaintEventArgs ClipRectangle parameter. Well, I won't go into a full and detailed explanation of the ClipRectangle - but to mention that this element informs the Paint Event / Overriden OnPaint method ... [ read more ]
This is a feature that's been in VB (.NET) since day one and is very cool.  If you've never used it before, what it does is add a condition to your catch statement so the catch is only executed the condition is met.  I've never really had much of a use for it, but it's good to know it's there.  A couple days ago though, I had a really good use for it though, even though a bit unconventional.  My scenario is basically that after a long process a webservice is called to update ... [ read more ]
Just to put questions to rest and reassure anyone who is concerned, I am actively working on CSLA .NET 2.0 and still intend to release 2nd editions of both the Expert VB and C# Business Objects books next spring - probably March or April. A few people have asked if this is still the case, since my web site post was a few months ago and I haven't updated it. But it turns out that the post remains pretty accurate and I really don't have much more to say :) CSLA .NE ... [ read more ]
Check it out, we opened up the Birds of a feather suggestion center … this is your chance to lead your own discussion at the PDC on topics YOU care about.   PDC is a great forum for this because the best-and-brightest developers targeting windows will be there as well as TONS of Microsoft folks.     As a Microsoft person, I am not able to lead any of these, but I figured it would be OK if a mused a little about what some fun sessions might be… If you want to pi ... [ read more ]
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