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Beantown .NET User Group on 9/4/2008: Jason Dolinger, WPF Patterns
Reminder: Beantown .NET is meeting this week on Thursday, September 4th. For our September meeting, we have Jason Dolinger from Lab49 presenting “WPF Patterns”. As always, our meeting is open to everyone so bring your friends and co-workers. If you’re planning to come, please RSVP by 3pm on 9/4. Click here to RSVP. Our location…
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Playing with .NET’s Named Pipe Streams (with .NET-to-.NET and Win32-to-.NET samples)
I get my first deadline-free and commitment weekend in weeks and what do I do? I spend 12 hours writing code. I didn’t leave my house yesterday. I’m just that cool. (And yes, it was completely worth it. I had a great time just writing code.) Anyway, I decided that I wanted to try to…
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My slides from DevTeach Toronto 2008
I spoke at DevTeach Toronto 2008 a few weeks ago. Here are the two talks I gave with links to download my slides. Enjoy. Talk #1: Customizing the Team System Web Test Framework (slides) At first glance, the Web Tests in Visual Studio Team System might not seem very powerful or interesting but the web…
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Convert a column data type on the fly with LINQ To SQL
I got an email yesterday from a reader with this LINQ To SQL problem. He was working with an existing database and some of the columns in his database weren’t the same type as what he wanted to use in his C# classes. The database column is a string but in the LINQ To SQL…
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My New Favorite Refactoring in DevExpress Refactor Pro
DevExpress has been pushing out upgraded versions of their Refactor Pro and CodeRush products a lot in the last year. My current favorite refactoring is “Move Type to File”. The C# best practice is to have only one class per .cs file but sometimes you’re in the coding groove and you just want to quickly…
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September 2007 Beantown .NET User Group Meeting
The Beantown .NET INETA User Group is back on September 6, 2007 after our summer vacation. For our September meeting we have Richard Hale Shaw presenting “WCF: State of the Service?”. As always, our meeting is open to everyone so bring your friends and co-workers. If you’re planning to come, please send me an RSVP…
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COMException When Trying to Access Any Member For an IIS DirectoryEntry
I’ve been playing around with writing a Custom Installer Actions for a VS2005 Web Application Deployment Project (aka Web Application Installer). The most challenging thing after figuring out the syntax weirdnesses for Custom Installers was manipulating IIS from C#. There are a ton of blog entries out there on how to manipulate IIS from .NET…
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Problem Connecting to SQL2005 & Surface Area Configuration
I ran into a problem a few days ago where I needed to connect to my SQL Server 2005 instance on my laptop (Windows XP) from another server on my network. From SQL Management Studio on the server, I typed in the connection info for my laptop’s database and kept getting an error: Cannot connect…
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ICCA Boston Panel Discussion on Microsoft Technologies.
It looks like I’m going to be making an appearance at this month’s ICCA Boston meeting. They’re doing a panel discussion entitled “Microsoft Technology: What does it mean to your clients?” and I’m going to be a panelist. -Ben Microsoft Technology: What does it mean to your clients? Clients demand ever higher levels of productivity, business…
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Looking for my next job.
Well, it looks like I’ll be wrapping my current project at the end of next. So, now I’m looking for my next job. If you know anyone who’s looking for a .NET architect and/or senior C# developer, let me know. (Especially if you’re using NHibernate.) Here’s my resume. -Ben