Derik Whittaker

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• Upgrading a Smart Device Project to Compact Framework 3.5

  ***** Disclaimer: I am a total NOOBIE to working on Smart Device Projects ***** Today I needed to upgrade on of our smart device projects from Compact Framework 2.0 to 3.5. I figured that I could do this via the properties dialog, but could not (see image... Posted Sep 10 2008, 08:49 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: .Net, HowTo

• Little nugget of simplification when loading an XDocument

  Today I needed to load in an XML file into memory for later use. At first I was going to use the XmlDocument library (old habits die hard), but later switched over to the XDocument library.  Why, not because one is better (ok, so I think that XDocument... Posted Jul 02 2008, 09:53 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: .Net, HowTo, Linq

• How to have a Single Config File for multiple developers

  In my last post I talked about how you can share a single config file among multiple project in a solution.  One of the feedback comments I got was how to have a single config file for multiple developers or even multiple environments.  So,... Posted Apr 16 2008, 08:13 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: Development, .Net IDE, .Net, HowTo

• Sorting List's the .Net 3.5 Way

  This post is another in the recent string of How-to's. But it is just so hard to resist. .Net 3.5 has so many cool features, it is just fun to explore them all. Ok, so here is the issue we are going to solve today. We have a list of entities and we... Posted Mar 28 2008, 09:09 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Development, .Net, Opinion, HowTo, Linq, Lambda

• Using System.ComponentModel Attributes to your advantage

  The System.ComponentModel namespace (more information here ) in .Net contains an array of various attributes that every .Net developer should know about.  These attributes provide a way for the developer to implement design-time and run-time behavior... Posted Jan 30 2008, 07:03 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Development, .Net IDE, .Net, UI, WinForms, HowTo

• Using Anonymous Delegates to handle Async Web Service Calls

  I just thought I would share a little trick I used today to back in Async web service calls into existing code using anonymous delegates. Here was my problem: I have a library that makes use of an existing web service that I do not control (so I cannot... Posted Oct 15 2007, 08:27 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Development, .Net, HowTo, Featured

• MOSS Development: Getting your environment up and running.

  I thought I would post a quick 'Getting-Started' guide for MOSS development. This post comes from my experience learning how to develop for MOSS. This post is a quick listing of what is needed to get your environment up and running. As you may... Posted Sep 22 2007, 04:29 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: Development, .Net, asp.net, HowTo, SharePoint

• Retrieving List Information in Share Point

  One common tasks that I have needed to do while working with SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) is to retrieve information in regards lists or libraries. You need this information when you want to perform add, update, or delete functions when working with data from... Posted Aug 25 2007, 08:42 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: .Net, HowTo, SharePoint

• WPF Gotcha: Cannot locate Resource "FileName.xaml"

  Today I was working with a WPF project and when I went to run the application I got the following error 'Cannot locate resource 'FileName.xaml'. Note, this is NOT a compiler error, this is a runtime error. When I opened up the App.xaml file, the StartupUri... Posted Aug 05 2007, 09:56 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: .Net, UI, WPF, HowTo

• Using XPath when there is Namespace information in the XML document

  If you have ever worked with XML, you know that XPath is your friend. Today I working with an XML document that was generated via MSWord and the generated document was well formed and included namespaces. Now, I have worked with namespaces in XML in the... Posted Aug 03 2007, 12:28 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Development, .Net, HowTo

• HowTo: Setting Expectations on Stubs using RhinoMocks

  When using a mocking tool like RhinoMocks, one of the features that it can provide is the ability to A) create a stub of an object and B) set expectations on Method/Property calls that are part of that method. Doing this is pretty easy, but like all things... Posted Jul 25 2007, 07:29 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: .Net, Rhino Mocks, Best Practice, HowTo

• Using Sharepoint's Web Services to QueryDocuments.

  For the latest thing I am doing at work I need to be able to grab some data from Sharepoint. I have chosen to do this by consuming SPServices.asmx server that is available. Because I was not able to find a decent post on the net on how to use/consume... Posted Jul 21 2007, 09:30 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Development, .Net, HowTo, SharePoint

• C# 3.0 Extension Methods, a Simple HowTo#

  I finally got around to installing Orcas on my laptop this weekend. You are probably asking yourself, what took so long? Simple, my laptop did not have the spare 14gigs needed in order to get it up and running. It took some pretty major house cleaning... Posted Jul 08 2007, 10:11 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Development, .Net, HowTo