DotNetKicks.com : Stories kicked by wwinchester

dnrTV Aggregator Part 2 - LINQ to XML

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:46:02 GMT

In Part 1 of this series I went over the creation of a Windows Service and it's remote client. For this installment, I will be covering the use of "LINQ to XML" to gather the feed, and the saving and loading of the XML configuration files. I'll also show some code to download and unzip the videos using SharpZipLib from ic#code.

Outerglow / Outline Text with GDI+ in C#

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 02:38:19 GMT

My previous job required a bit of multimedia programming and involved the use of a lot of different graphics techniques. One day we ran across a bit of code to give drawn text either an outerglow or an outline around it. It turns outs to be much simpler to do than I previously thought and only goes to show that you can always learn a new tricks.

dnrTV Aggregator Part 1 - Windows Services

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:19:20 GMT

It is time for another personal project for me and this time I thought I would put together a dnrTV feed aggregator. Rather than watch each episode on my home computer, I prefer to watch them on the big screen TV in the living room. They are very viewable and I can sit in my lazy boy with the remote, a beer and maybe the laptop. ( mostly the remote and a beer )

.NET Graphical Resources

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:01:02 GMT

So you just got done prototyping that new Winform or WPF application and the interface is a bit lacking. You are a programmer, not an artist after all. Well, never fear, free icons are here (wow that really rhymed). All kidding aside, most of us are not good at drawing images and icons, so we need some resources for these items.

LINQ to SQL Part 3

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:51:43 GMT

We have seen a couple examples of how to use LINQ to SQL in the previous posts LINQ to SQL Part 1, LINQ to SQL Part 2, and how easy it is to use. The next question now becomes, What if your company strictly uses stored procedures for all of its data accessing? Companies today can have stored procedures number from the hundreds to the thousands. With LINQ to SQL, you can still call your stored procedures and even mix and match the type styles.

LINQ to SQL Part 2

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:46:02 GMT

In LINQ to SQL Part 1 I used a very simple query, almost too simple. This time I want to take it a step up and add a few joins into the mix, and show how to handle them. Below is a standard TSQL query that will to pull the employee name and his/her territory and region from the Northwind database.

LINQ to SQL Part 1

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:31:02 GMT

I'm sure everyone so far has at least heard of LINQ. If you haven't, it is Microsoft's new technology for Language Integrated Querying. LINQ is part of the upcoming 3.5 .Net Framework which will be part of Visual Studio 2008 ( codename Orcas ).

Microsoft Launch Event 2008

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:21:12 GMT

It is launch time again for Microsoft, and this time it is for Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008. The one here in Tampa is not until May 8, but as soon as I can register for it I will. You can get more information and register on their launch web site, Heroes happen {here}.

Free Ebooks from MsPress

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:36:29 GMT

Last week a co-worker let me know about these free E-books from Microsoft Press. It looks as if the LINQ book is in fact the full book while the other two on ASP.NET and SilverLight 1.0 are excerpts. More information can be found at the Microsoft Learning Portal.

Dual Monitors for Developers

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:16:01 GMT

Let's face it, a multiple monitor setup is the only way to go for a software developer, or any other computer professional these days. If you are still using only a single monitor, you are not working at your full potential.

Create an Access Database in C#

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:15:21 GMT

I wrote some code last year to create an Microsoft Access Database, fill in some data and email it out. It never made it out to production so I thought I would share part of it here.

Extension Methods in C# 3.0

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:28:55 GMT

Have you ever wanted to be able to extend a sealed class like string?

Organize Usings

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:09:51 GMT

New Visual Studio menu option "Organize Usings"

New Feature: Organize using statements with VS 2008

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:35:08 GMT

I pretty cool C# IDE enhancement that will become very useful.

Strongly-Typed Session Properties in ASP.NET

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:06:32 GMT

One way to implement Strongly-Typed Session Properties in ASP.NET.

TSQL, Looping through a result set without using database cursor

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:26:50 GMT

An alternative approach to looping through a result set without using a database cursor.

Appreciating a good, well-designed API

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:59:14 GMT

It's the little things in the .NET Framework that matter.

VS 2008 and unexpected errors

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:34:40 GMT

Visual Studio 2008 kept crashing because of unexpected errors, however, this article goes into how to go about finding the problem and solving it.

.NET and the Provider Model

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 05:55:02 GMT

A reminder on how the Provider Model Pattern can be used to create extensible applications.

DotNetRocks TV

Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:31:00 GMT

Carl Franklin has released a great new site which he explains as... "dnrTv is a fusion of a training video and an interview show. Training videos are typically sterile and one-way. Let's face it, you can only take so much. But you need to see the code! In this format, you get the spontaneity of an interview talk show, and the detail of a webcast or training video." The first episode shows how to build a composite web-control in Visual Studio 2005. Highly recommended.