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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

The Microsoft® Windows Mobile Line of Business Solution Accelerator 2008!

Published 17 March 8 9:4 AM | William

Rob Tiffany has got the details... . The main features include: Intelligent resolution awareness Synchronization Services Windows Communication Foundations "Store and Forward" MapPoint LINQ Custom Controls Managed Stored Procedures and Triggers...

Filed under: News, Humor, Data Access, Misc Technology, WCF, ADO.NET Synchronization Services, Microsoft.Synchronization, Mobility, LINQ, Sahil Malik

Whitney Weaver is now blogging

Published 11 March 8 5:38 PM | William

My friend and co-worker, Whitney Weaver is now blogging at the Magenic blog site . Actually, he's been blogging for a little while now, I've just been a bum and not updated my blog in a while. Although he's certainly an up and coming programmer...

Filed under: Data Access, Misc Technology

Coding Arguments - aka How to Start Religious Wars

Published 23 July 7 5:33 AM | William

I am lucky enough to work for a company that really encourages us to get together and learn/hang out etc. One way this happens is by Tech Nights. Basically, we have in office meetings which are recorded via Live Meeting, where someone picks a topic and...

Filed under: Data Access, Life in General, Coding Techniques

ADO.NET Synchronization Services

Published 26 January 7 3:10 PM | William

So little time, so much cool new technology to play with .

Filed under: Data Access, ADO.NET Synchronization Services, Visual Studio .NET Orcas

My Update isn't working...

Published 25 January 7 5:7 AM | William

A while ago, I used to answer so many "My update isn't working. It doesn't throw exceptions but it doesn't do anything" type questions that I wrote this article . Those days seem long removed, or at least they did. Seems the problem is creeping back up...

Filed under: Data Access

Musings on the database formerly known as Sql Everywhere

Published 2 November 6 2:53 AM | William

The IM volume I received today about the Rollback to SqlCE issue was enough to border on overwhelming. Between PMs and some lazy SOB CRM guy trying to get me to do all his work for him, it was hard focusing on work today. (And seriously, if you are a...

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

A mobile database by any other name...

Published 1 November 6 2:1 AM | William

I'm really torn about this post. On the one hand Microsoft has repeated one of their most annoying feats. However they did it with a product that I love, so I feel a little bad dogging it out. What am I talking about? They renamed that little database...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Data Access

Differentiating between "Denormalization" and excuse making.

Published 27 September 6 6:47 AM | William

I've actually got a lot to discuss about database stuff but wanted to start out explaining a very basic concept. All me to disgress for a moment. I've worked at a few places where there were some Cobol/AS 400 developers that were quite full of...

Filed under: Data Access, Coding Techniques

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

Normalization really does matter

Published 7 September 6 3:30 PM | William

It seems like years ago, but I remember one of my professors giving us an assignment. It involved taking a database chock full of redundancies and writing the SQL Statements to make a few small updates. We thought it was an assignment to test our SQL...

Filed under: Data Access, Coding Techniques

Transferring data around with ADO.NET 2.0 - SqlBulkCopy

Published 26 August 6 5:3 PM | William

I'm working at a client on a data migration and found some results that were surprising. I expected there to be a difference but not one quite this large... Synopsis of Problem: Right now I'm working on a rather complex migration from a bunch of disparate...

Filed under: Data Access, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques

To use Stored Procedures or not.

Published 14 June 6 9:14 PM | William

A while ago, Frans wrote Stored Procedures are Bad, M'Kay . None other than Adam Machanic chimed in, arguing essentially the opposite . The always insightful Anatoly Lubarsky gives his take on it and well, my head is spinning. I was Mr. Stored Procedure...

Filed under: Data Access, Coding Techniques

Where's the Extra Connection String Coming From?

Published 14 June 6 1:33 AM | William

One of the issues I came across when writing my new book was with ConnectionStrings. Examine the following configuration section: <connectionStrings> <add name="AdventureWorksString" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" connectionString="Data...

Filed under: Data Access, Coding Techniques

Pablo Castro on ADO.NET 3.0

Published 12 June 6 11:39 PM | William

I'm bummed that I couldn't make it to Tech Ed, Sahil is presenting and everyone I know is up there. Anyway, i've been reading Kent Tegels liveblog of Pablo Castro's ADO.NET 3.0 presentation report on ADO.NET 3.0 and am green with envy. Pablo is one of...

Filed under: Data Access, Coding Techniques

Bill Vaughn's Blogging again

Published 12 June 6 10:17 PM | William

Well, I'm out of commission today but a bit restless. Getting caught up on a few things. Anyway, Bill Vaughn is blogging again ago but I've forgotten to post it. Anyway, if you aren't familiar with him, Bill is the man and there is sure to be a lot of...

Filed under: Data Access, Misc Technology

Learn ADO.NET from the Best

Published 6 June 6 10:29 PM | William

Well, saying someone is 'the best' is a pretty big statement, but one thing is certain, any discussion of 'the greatest talent in ADO.NET' will have Sahil's name featured prominently. Just look at what his people who read his book say! Anyway, if you...

Filed under: Data Access, Coding Techniques

DataView.ToTable method in the 2.0 Framework

Published 6 June 6 12:37 AM | William

This is a really simple trick but it's way cool. Now that I have some time again, I've been trying to get up to speed with LINQ and ADO.NET 2.0. God I missed it. Anyway, this comes up in the newsgroups all the time so I figured I'd write up a quick sample...

Filed under: Data Access

Sahil's moving again...

Published 24 May 6 5:2 PM | William

Totally a day late and a dollar short on this (I think Sahil mailed me last week) but anyway, better late than never New website - www.winsmarts.com <-- This is the suit/tie version of me. New blog - http://blah.winsmarts.com New RSS - http://blah...

Filed under: Data Access

Using the SqlConnectionStringBuilder to guard against Connection String Injection Attacks

Published 15 January 6 2:40 PM | William

One new object in the ADO.NET 2.0 Library worth taking a look at is the SqlConnectionStringBuilder . Considering how late it is in the game, you are probably aware of the dangers of Sql Injection Attacks . One the off chance you aren't, let me throw in...

Filed under: Data Access, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005