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Entity Framework originates from WinFS
As I started to learn more about Entity Framework, i stumbled upon an interview with Quentin Clark who led the WinFS project from 2002 to 2006. WinFS was shut down in 2006 but much of the work done their lives today in several area's as QC mentions ...
Naming convention for DB2 OLEDB Connection
When connecting to a DB2 using OLEDB, we can set since V5R3 the Naming convention option. With this we can indicate if we need to specify the schema name or not in our queries. The option can have these values: 0 : (default) SQL Naming should be used...
Visual Studio discovery does not detect my WCF Service
Recently I needed to create a windows service application for one of my customers and I decided to use WCF for both incomming as outgoing communication mechanism. The problem I had was that I could not discover any WCF services in my solution. Only WCF...
Unit Testing in Visual Studio 2008 Pro edition
From the blog posting of Scott Guthrie , Unit Testing will be available on the Pro edition of Visual Studio 2008 instead of only on the Team Suite Editions. Unit testing support is now much faster and included in VS Professional (and no longer just VSTS...
DateTime and Number format overview
Very handy if you always need to start the VS Help to lookup on those date or number formats.... http://john-sheehan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/msnet-formatting-strings.pdf
ASP.NET Tooltip control
We regularly use an advanced tooltip control for web projects hence this ASP.NET Server control. It is based on the LGPL licensed freeware code of walter zorn . For your convinience I wrapped it into an ASP.NET server control. Basically you can create...
ASP.NET single submit button
Dimitris, a colleague here at MSP, recently create a slick new ASP.NET Server control. The control is in fact a button with one additional behavior; it will disable itself after you've clicked on it. This behavior is very interesting for sites where...
Integrate your Framework documentation into Visual Studio Help
At the moment I'm working on a small, but usefull, .NET framework for one of my customers. The purpose of this framework is build around Logging, Configuration, etc. The customer has a team of .Net Developers that will be using this framework with...
Use masterpages in Web Sites and Web Application Projects
Since Visual Studio SP1, you have the option to choose between 2 approaches when building websites ASP.NET Web Site ASP.NET Web Application The ASP.NET Web Application has been added in SP1 (actually you could download it seperately already before SP1...
Start developing WSS 3.0 Webservice
My goal was to programmatically create a view on a document library. In my previous post I briefly described how to develop WSS using the Object Model directly. In this post I wanna talk about the Web services wrapped around WSS. You can get more info...
Start developing for SharePoint 2007
In SharePoint 2003, we needed to develop webparts on a server where SharePoint was installed. So, either you installed Visual Studio on a development server together with sharepoint or you created a complete new virtual environment on your dev machine...
Visual Studio 2005 SP1 has finally arrived
Since the launch of Visual Studio 2005 back in October 2005, we did several projects, ranging from Web applications, web services and winforms apps. Back then we were still relying on Visual SourceSafe as source control but we slowly changed this to SubVersion...
Posted: Dec 18 2006, 07:28 AM by ErikL | with no comments
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Initialization using Interfaces
Hi, For some time now, I'm a dedicated user of Interfaces in my code. I really like to develop using Interfaces because it offers a loosely coupled integration between my components. However, I find them having one minor drawback, that is, they don't...
Posted: May 22 2006, 10:02 AM by ErikL | with no comments
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