Don't you hate when tools try to promote themselves in your work, especially if you paid for them? Last night I was noavigatin around in Reflector when I stoped by the embedded resource named System.Data.Odbc.OdbcMetaData.xml (in System.Data.dll 2.0). What I saw was both familiar and a little aggravating...

After the IoC talk we had the monthly discussion. This time we tried the fishbowl format (or some approximation of that). The topic was ORMs.

I finally got some time to import and upload the videos of September's Chicago ALT.NET meeting that happened almost 2 weeks ago. In this first video jdn shows how DI and IoC containers can be used to add flexibility to an application design.

A friend of mine was telling me about a bug he found in one of his applications caused by a simple lack of escaping quotes when producing CSV files. It immediately reminded me of an old trick in .NET. If you really want, you can create CSV files using ADO.NET and OLE-DB (or ODBC.) I wouldn't necessarily...

***** 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 below). But as you can see, the Target Framework...

We just spent far too long on what turned out to be a stupid problem ... we kept getting an error telling us that the view did not inherit from System.Web.UI.Page ... unfortunately the guy who was working on the particular view and controller could not think of a specific change he had made to cause...

Next Wednesday, September 10 th , is the next meeting of the Chicago ALT.NET user group. This time IoC containers will be the topic du jour . Expect to see an introduction to this technology and learn why IoC isn't just overhead. Don't expect to leave with just another introduction to some technique...

Expecting it to be painless to move from Preview 4 to Preview 5 was probably hoping a little too much ... but it certainly wasn't the worst thing in the world. A couple of things did catch me that I didn't find in the notes for upgrade, so I thought I best post them in case someone else gets...

Last night I attended another LCNUG meeting. I think it's great that we have this new group forming in the northern suburbs of Chicago. It's definitely not easy for us suburbanites to attend CNUG 's meeting in the West 'burbs or even the Chicago ALT.NET meetings downtown. It's special...

I will be at the Codeapalooza on Saturday, September 6th. This will be a free event with numerous sessions covering many different topics. I haven't made up my mind yet on which sessions I will attend but I'll be helping the event organization in some capacity. I already noticed that two of my...