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  • Entity Collection View Class?

    As I'm working more and more with Entity Classes and Collections of them, I'm running into some interesting problems. I've been able to DataBind my classes to things like DataGrids, no problem, but I'm finding myself wishing there were such a thing as a CollectionView class. This would function like...

  • VERY Cool Winforms Data Binding Helper

    Roy has posted a very interesting Custom Attribute class that will simplify WinForms data binding ... [it's] is a simple Custom attribute that you can put on a control instance on the form (TextBox for example) that has some meta-data as to what data binding it will use at run time. I love stuff like...

  • More GMail...

    This will be my last post about GMail accounts, promise. Got 6 more today, and they keep coming, so if you want one, send email to brendan dot tompkins @ gmail.com. I have a feeling that they're ready to open up GMail to everyone, so this will be a thing of the past shortly. -Brendan

  • Good Consulting Information is Hard to Find.

    I'm always interested in hearing DonXML's thoughts on consulting, as they usually jibe with my own. In fact, I first ran into him on line in some comments he left on a post I made about consulting rates . Recently he's come up with a list of consulting guidelines. They're pretty insightful - check 'em...

  • More GMail Invites...

    Since I first started giving these things away last week, they've seemingly opened the floodgates with this email invite thing. I've got 8 more to give away if anyone wants any, email me at brendan.tompkins@gmail.com . Rory has a whole list of bloggers giving away invites here too .

  • Flooded with Gmail Invites...

    Dunno what has happend this week, but I've gotten a bunch of Gmail invites to hand out. They seem to be giving me more every couple of days. If you would like one, send me email to “brendan dot tompkins at gmail.com” and I'll set you up. I've only got a few, so first come, first serve. Wow...

  • Exceptions vs. Error Codes

    This is something that I've wondered about. This post here sums it up well. In the comments, Andy writes : I totally agree. It can be summed up into one key rule: "never use exceptions for applicational logic or flow control" -Brendan

  • How To: Make a Web Smart Tag

    Last year I created a SmartTag for Office XP for internal use here at the Port . It's been a success, and recently our director asked if I could do something similar for our Web Site. Specifically, he wanted a popup context menu to appear whenever there was a container number on the site. This menu...

  • Good SOA and Indigo Blog

    Rich Turner's blog has a lot of good information on SOA, including hot topics such as DataSets vs. Custom Entities , Remoting vs. ES vs. ASMX/WSE , etc... Check it out. Answers a lot of questions that I've asked here about these things. -Brendan

  • Being Independent: Using a Pass-Through Agency

    Robert and James have recently posted some good information on going independent. Scott also has a good series on being independent . I posted a few times earlier this year about this as well. So you have a client and a project to work on... where do you go from there? I wanted to offer some insight...
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  • Best Refactoring Tools?

    Does anyone know of any good refactoring tools for Visual Studio? I've been playing around with ReSharper , and although it's pretty cool for refactoring, it pretty much kills the IDE for normal development. It seems to override CodeRush 's hooks too, and if I have to choose, it's CodeRush all the way...

  • Announcing: WSMQ and XMLQ

    OBSOLETE CONTENT The author of this post has determined that this content is obsolete. Use at your own risk! Blog posts are a point-in-time snapshot of the blogger's thinking and should not be assumed to represent this blogger's current opinions. This post was left up for historical purposes. I've created...
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  • Nice Addin - GhostDoc

    From GhostDoc's site GhostDoc is an add-in for Visual Studio .Net 2003 for automatically generating those parts of a C# documentation comment that can be deduced from name and type of e.g. methods, properties or parameters. Just used it to doc a bunch of code! Nice! Perhaps he'll win Roy's contest. ...

  • Nice Fix for System.TimeSpan Serialization

    If you've tried to XML serialize a System.TimeSpan value, you may have noticed that your node is null, no matter what you set the TimeSpan value to be. There's a nice workaround to this posted here by Ben Lucas. Basically, you [XmlIgnore] your object's TimeSpan property, and add another that serializes...

  • OT: Fat Boy Slim - Google First Dammit!

    Don't know if you've heard Fat Boy Slim's new single, but other than sounding like a bad rendition of a Beastie Boys song, it sounds like an add for Slashdot . It goes : “Slash dot, slash dot, slash dot, slash dot, slash dot, slash dot, dot dot com!“ ...Or something thereabouts. I don't think...
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