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Looking for some .NET Developers

Published 6 June 8 10:19 PM | William

A client of mine located in the Aiken/Columbia South Carolina Area has asked me if I had any friends who are .NET Developers and looking for a job. They are looking for at least one Junior Developer, on Mid-Level Developer and several Senior developers...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Data Access, Web Services / WSE, .NET Basics, .NET General, Coding Techniques, Misc Technology, Biztalk, WPF, WCF, .NET 3.0 Framework, WIX, Sql Server Integration Services, SSIS, Silverlight, Sql Server, Sql Server 2008, Sharepoint, LINQ To ADO.NET, .NET 3.5 Framework, LINQ, LINQ Training, ADO.NET 3.5, C# 3.5, Windows Mobile, Job Stuff

Free Silverlight Training

Published 14 August 7 8:53 PM | William

My friend Brian Madsen who owns CSharpZealot has teamed up with InnerWorkings to extend a really slick offer for Free Silverlight Training for CSharpZealot members . In addition, Shawn Wildermuth has been way ahead of the crowd when it comes to Silverlight...

Filed under: Life in General, .NET Basics, Me, .NET General, Coding Techniques, Misc Technology, WPF, .NET 3.0 Framework, Silverlight, WPF/E

Comment of the week - Sql Server Reporting Services vs. Crystal

Published 27 September 6 6:27 AM | William

A while ago, I posted this about how much a55 I think Crystal Reports sucks. A long time ago, back at like v.7, I thought Crystal was a decent product. And to be honest, it still is a decent product. But it comes with a lot of baggage and has a lot that...

Filed under: Humor, Data Access, .NET General, Coding Techniques, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

Do you have any ideas about preparation for 70-529?

Published 28 June 6 3:30 AM | William

As you may know, I'm coauthoring http://www.microsoft.com/learning/exams/70-529.asp . In particular, I'm covering the following objectives: Create and configure an XML Web service method. Create a public method. Attach the WebMethodAttribute attribute...

Filed under: Web Services / WSE, Books, .NET Basics, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques, Misc Technology, Certification

Regular Expression Recipes for Windows Developers: A Problem-Solution Approach (A Problem-Solution Approach)

Published 16 April 6 7:52 PM | William

My buddy Brian Davis is probably one of the most kick a55 regex gurus I've ever come across. That's created a little bit of a problem b/c whenever I need a regex, even a really complex one, he can usually whip it up in his head faster than I can describe...

Filed under: Books, .NET General, Coding Techniques

If you want to prove you're a real programmer

Published 7 November 5 4:51 PM | William

Benchmarking things like this and this is definitely one way to do it. I shouldn't be surprised though, Roland has been rolling in cool posts and projects recently.

Filed under: Remoting, .NET General, Coding Techniques

Overriding ToString()

Published 31 July 5 12:28 AM | William

I had mentioned reading Effective C#, 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C# back a few posts ago . So I decided to show off a few of the techniques there as well as some new C# features and began with this post. . Anyway, when I started writing out the...

Filed under: Humor, .NET General, Coding Techniques

One of Tobin's most brilliant moments

Published 22 July 5 8:5 PM | William

Tobin's latest idea on creating JAXASS is brilliant. There's some wank action going on trying to get it deleted over here but I'm all for it. Just check this out: ----------------------------------------------- This should soon be followed up by the Farcical...

Filed under: Me, .NET General, Coding Techniques

With ADO.NET DataTables Remove != Delete

Published 10 May 5 7:39 PM | William

One of the very first mistakes I made when I was learning ADO.NET was confusing DataTable.Select with Remove. I wrote this a while ago which explains the distinction in detail. Bill Vaughn was kind enough to set me straight on the issue. Anyway, in a...

Filed under: Data Access, .NET General, Coding Techniques

Speech Server, Book Writing, Code Camps and Pimped out rides

Published 24 April 5 1:42 AM | William

For the last week, things have gotten kind of weird in my life. And by most standards, I'm pretty friggin weird to begin with. I stared working with Wally McClure on writing a book and so far, things have been going really well. But so far I've only encountered...

Filed under: Speech Server, MVP Stuff, Me, .NET General, Coding Techniques

Getting Props for .NET Refactor

Published 6 April 5 3:59 PM | William

My friends and former co-workers/boss and I created .NET Refactor to help us refactor some of our code and it turned into a pretty cool product pretty fast. Les is the man when it comes to writing Visual Studio .NET Add-Ins and Brian is the man that never...

Filed under: News, .NET General, Coding Techniques

Intellisense Weirdness when Inheriting from Page that inherits from System.Web.UI.Page

Published 4 April 5 4:0 PM | William

I was just wondering if anyone else has had this problem. If I create a page that derives from System. Web .UI. Page ie and then have a class derive from it (so UI.SomeBasePage inherits from System.Web.UI.Page) public class SomeClass : MyNameSpace.Something...

Filed under: .NET General, Coding Techniques

C# and VB.NET playing nice in the ASP.NET 2.0 Playground

Published 30 March 5 8:11 PM | William

I've been finding so much cool sh1t in the newest build of Whidbey that it's hard to keep up. It's really amazing how, when you actually have to build something professionally, you come across so much more than you ever would just tinkering through it...

Filed under: .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques

The Utter Coolness of Sql Mobile

Published 29 March 5 3:44 PM | William

I've been writing for a while about this Proof of Concept I've been doing at work and today, I just finished a major milestone. The only thing left to do now is Ink Enable the thing and actually, that's the easy part. I can't really divulge the code I...

Filed under: Compact Framework, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques

XM and C#

Published 17 February 5 5:22 PM | William

Thanks to my homie Jason Burton for this link . Ben Stallhood does an excellent job covering the XM Spec - and it's way cool - unless you aren't into XM Radio. Speaking of XM Radio - does anyone here listen to Phil Hendrie Show ? There was like a year...

Filed under: .NET General, Coding Techniques

Improving a CAPTCHA - An idea

Published 31 January 5 12:20 AM | William

Ok, so you have probably already heard about all of the controversy my homey KC caused with his Captcha beater. He posted his suggestions on how to make Captcha stronge, which are provided below: render the characters with different colors make some characters...

Filed under: News, Life in General, Me, .NET General, Coding Techniques, Mindless Babbling

More Casey Worship

Published 30 January 5 4:7 PM | William

One of the best things about being the leader of the Casey Chesnut Sycophant Cult is that he makes it increasingly easy to recruit members. Like much of his stuff - the coolness of it doesn't just come from the tech stuff it takes to write it - it comes...

Filed under: Life in General, .NET General, Coding Techniques

http://www.everythingado.net

Published 30 January 5 2:45 AM | William

Well, I finally bit the bullet and purchased my site from Brinkster. I'm going to be hosting blogs for a few of my disaffected DNJ friends - but well, due to the nature of the site - I'm not handing them out to everyone - If I know you, or you can convince...

Filed under: News, Humor, Compact Framework, Data Access, MVP Stuff, Me, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques, Mindless Babbling

LinkDemands, JIT and Exceptions

Published 25 January 5 8:16 PM | William

Ran across another little problem today that I figured I'd mention. To many people security is nothing but a pain in the butt so you just do what you have to do to make your code run. If you're one of those people, you probably should stop reading this...

Filed under: .NET General, Coding Techniques

Requests for Content

Published 23 January 5 10:40 PM | William

I've finally started to get a little free time these days and I'm going to be doing some quality Travelling in the next few weeks - if you're interested in something in particular, I'm taking requests. Anything ADO.NET, Anything Compact Framework, (Not...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Data Access, Remoting, MVP Stuff, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques