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VS.NET Help Lacking or am I spoiled by Google?

When I search for “DataView“, I get 500 entries and I have to scroll down to the bottom to find the main class reference page. I cant help thinking that if MS got together with Google, I could type “dahta veew” and it would politely say, “Did you mean System.DataView”...

Published Tue, Dec 30 2003 10:27 AM by Brendan Tompkins
Cool Tool or Fun Toy?

Via CodeProject, I came across AssemblyGrapher. It will generate type graphs that look like this: Well sort of, anyway. Here is the full assembly with all it's classes . Anyone like spaghetti? -Brendan

Published Tue, Dec 30 2003 7:10 AM by Brendan Tompkins
Mary Chung's Dun Dun Noodles - Good food For Software Developers

Went up to New England this year for the holidays and stopped into Mary Chung's on Mass. Ave. in Cambridge. On Saturday and Sunday until 2 pm she serves Dim Sum, and let me tell you, it is out of this world! The cool thing about this place is that it's in spitting distance from MIT, and is always...

Published Mon, Dec 29 2003 11:05 AM by Brendan Tompkins
Create a SQL Server View of your AD Users

I posted about this earlier today , and the solution was so simple and straight-forward that I'm posting the solution in a separate post. So, to create a view in SQL Server of your AD users, simply do this: Step 1: Create a linked server to your Active Directory sp_addlinkedserver 'ADSI', 'Active Directory...

Published Fri, Dec 19 2003 1:43 PM by Brendan Tompkins

Filed under: SQL
From Active Directory to SQL Relational Data

Here at the port, we use AD as our back-end user account and group store, like I'm sure many of you do. To relate user data in our SQL database to these accounts, we have a slimmed down user table that looks like this: [GN_USER_ID] [int] IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL , [GN_USER_AD_LOGIN] [varchar] (50) NOT...

Published Fri, Dec 19 2003 8:27 AM by Brendan Tompkins
In the "Yeah, but does it support the .NET Framework?" department

Now, if we could write managed code to control Sony's new robots. Now that would be cool! -Brendan

Published Thu, Dec 18 2003 11:20 AM by Brendan Tompkins
Naming Things

A big part of our jobs as software engineers is to name stuff. We do it all the time when naming variables, controls database tables, etc. We all (hopefully) have guidelines and standards we follow when we're doing this kind of naming. But, sometimes we have to name more abstract functionality, like...

Published Tue, Dec 16 2003 11:53 AM by Brendan Tompkins
Where do we go from here?

My good friend, Mark DiGiovanni, blogged on about other .NET languages, and he mentions *antique* software developers. I'll let others out there comment on his pejorative use of *antique* to describe “seasoned” developers, but this kinda brings up something that I think about quite often...

Published Thu, Dec 11 2003 7:54 AM by Brendan Tompkins

Filed under: Consulting
SharePoint Part Caching (and RTFM)

Okay. Like most sane people, I try to do most things without reading the manual first. So, I'm happily developing my SharePoint Portal web parts, and I'm storing data into the PartCache, using the following method. The method takes 4 values, Storage type, a cache key, the data, and a System.TimeSpan...

Published Wed, Dec 10 2003 6:31 AM by Brendan Tompkins
SharePoint Portal Server 2003 - First Impression

So, I spent the week messing around with SharePoint Portal Server 2003, and I'll have to say, I'm really impressed. Installation: I got it up and running on a VMWare virtual Win 2003 server on my development machine here at work. Setup was easy and straightforward. I spent around three hours swapping...

Published Fri, Dec 5 2003 11:40 AM by Brendan Tompkins
Managing Multiple .config Files

We're getting a lot of re-use out of our .NET framework here at the port. We've got our public web site, Web Services, Windows Services, and now we're creating SharePoint Portal web parts - all using the same underlying managed framework. I've run into a problem re-using .config files across applications...

Published Wed, Dec 3 2003 8:19 AM by Brendan Tompkins

Filed under: .NET General
Sysinternals Autoruns Tool

I just love Sysinternals. Every developer, in my opinion, should have a copy of their FREE tools. I don't know what I'd do without DebugView for monitoring remote System.Diagnostics.Trace messages. Or FileMon for identifying and fixing file location and permission problems (expcially useful for fixing...

Published Mon, Dec 1 2003 11:35 AM by Brendan Tompkins

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VS.NET Help Lacking or am I spoiled by Google?

Cool Tool or Fun Toy?

Mary Chung's Dun Dun Noodles - Good food For Software Developers

Create a SQL Server View of your AD Users

From Active Directory to SQL Relational Data

In the "Yeah, but does it support the .NET Framework?" department

Naming Things

Where do we go from here?

SharePoint Part Caching (and RTFM)

SharePoint Portal Server 2003 - First Impression

Managing Multiple .config Files

Sysinternals Autoruns Tool