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• Enterprise Library and Oracle Stored Procedure Record Sets

  Published: August 27, 2007, 12:59 pm

  Tags: Net 2 0, Net 3 5, Visual Studio 2005, Sql, Oracle, Microsoft

  Perhaps I just don’t sacrifice enough innocents to Oracle daily to keep up on the odd things regarding Enterprise Library and Oracle.  Or, I’m just very lucky to have most of my projects based on Microsoft SQL Server and just expect things to work just as easily with Oracle. So what about returning a record set in Oracle?  It

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• ActiveReports 3.0 Hotfix released!

  Published: August 21, 2007, 7:48 am

  Tags: Visual Studio 2008, Net 3 5, Net 2 0, Visual Studio 2005

  DataDynamics released a hotfix for v3.0 of the ActiveReports product yesterday afternoon.  There’s 44 updates addressing various issues with SP2.  You can download the update here. Also, either a side note or a huge *cheer*… I installed this version up and VS2008 Beta 2 recognizes reports and the designer opens without a

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• ReSharper 3.0.2 is Out!

  Published: August 17, 2007, 11:26 am

  Tags: Visual Studio 2008, Net 3 0, Net 2 0, Visual Studio 2005

  downloads for both VS 2005 and VS 2008, satisfying the Orcas users out there.  Here’s the release notes.  Quite a lengthy list of fixes for such a quickly turned release—thanks to the entire ReSharper team for these updates! Tags: resharper, release

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• Updated: Creating a Lookup Modal Popup

  Published: August 14, 2007, 5:15 pm

  Tags: Visual Studio 2008, Net 2 0, Visual Studio 2005, Ajax

  is not necessary, simply a visual cue for my customers.  You might be asking: why did you add your results set to Session?  For our data paging, of course!  Why requery? GridView’s PageIndexChanging protected void StudentLookupGridView_PageIndexChanging(object sender, GridViewPageEventArgs e) // Recapture the current

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• Update to .NET Framework Cleanup Tool for 3.5b

  Published: September 6, 2007, 1:11 pm

  Tags: Visual Studio 2008, Net 3 5, Visual Studio 2005, Windows Vista, Microsoft

  Aaron Stebner has posted up the link and info for the .NET Framework Cleanup tool—a nifty little tool that can help cleanup servers, workstations, etc. that have various frameworks on them. This new version is good for those of us exploring .NET 3.5 with beta 1 and beta 2–-it recognizes and can remove both. Thanks Aaron! Tags:

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• Do-It-Yourself AJAX - A new appreciation

  Published: September 12, 2007, 12:49 pm

  Tags: Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2005, Javascript, Ajax

  Over all, the course has been “ok”.  We’re done with the AJAX part and moving into the JSP side now.  Everything we did with the AJAX, I knew how to do, but just didn’t because I had a .NET solution for it.  What the class has provided; however, is a bit of an appreciation for the time put into doing this

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• .NET 2.0 Generics — Any suggestions?

  Published: September 16, 2007, 10:50 pm

  Tags: Net 2 0, General Development, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008

  Beyond the typical Google parsing, anyone have a good reference book for .net 2.0 generics?  Looking for the full deal—from reasoning and usage of each type to extension and such using the interfaces.  Also, it needs to be at a level where you don’t need to be a full C# guru to get the pros/cons—something that a couple

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• AjaxControlToolkit v10920 Released!

  Published: September 22, 2007, 11:39 am

  Tags: Net 2 0, Net 3 5, Ajax, Javascript, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008

  advantage of new features in Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2. With the multi-targeting support in this Visual Studio Beta, IntelliSense will be available for the ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 flavor of the Toolkit as well. This article discusses the reference tag feature in detail. Extender designer support: Enhanced designer support for Toolkit controls using the

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• JavaScript Popup Reminder OnBeforeUnload Control for Multiple Browsers

  Published: September 23, 2007, 2:27 pm

  Tags: Net 2 0, Javascript, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008

  I’m putting the finishing touches on a grading application for work and needed a “reminder” for people to save.  Internet-based (*laugh* computer-based even) technologies are still fairly new in our organization.  I try to keep the bleeding out of bleeding edge—especially when teachers are involved. One

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• Catching Enter on Web Pages with JavaScript

  Published: September 25, 2007, 3:55 pm

  Tags: Ajax, Javascript, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008

  A common question in the .aspnet forums has been how to prevent the use of the Enter key when submitting forms online.  By default, a form submits when Enter or Return is pressed on the keyboard. The “best” way to deal with this would be form validation—if something isn’t filled out, the validators stop and pick it

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• Dynamically Setting a GridView Cell Background

  Published: September 26, 2007, 11:30 am

  Tags: Net 2 0, Visual Studio 2005

  Whether it be from a database image or directly from the file system, it’s sometimes useful to dynamically set the background of a cell to a specific image or color. If you have a particular color or image located in a datatable and want to use that to dynamically set the background-image or background-color of the cells, the RowDataBound

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• Windows Vista causing development woes?

  Published: October 11, 2007, 1:27 pm

  Tags: Hardware Software, Microsoft, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008, Windows Vista, Windows Xp

  I have to be honest that for Visual Studio (both 2005 SP1 and 2008) have ran like dreams on Vista x64.  I haven’t had a lick of trouble creating, compiling, debugging, and performance is amazing.  VS2008 starts up (after the UAC prompt) instantly and is ready to go.  Projects load in a matter of seconds—even pulling

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• Using Java in .NET

  Published: October 22, 2007, 5:34 pm

  Tags: Net 2 0, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008

  I saw a post on Microsoft’s Coding4Fun this morning regarding using a new SourceForge project called IKVM.NET (full details) that allows you to create a Java Virtual Machine inside of .NET.  So, since our student information system will be converting to Java (from Oracle Forms and Reports… mass celebration goes here) soon,

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• Basic tutorial on IVKM and Java in .NET

  Published: October 24, 2007, 2:00 pm

  Tags: Net 2 0, Net 3 5, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008

  Okay, a quick overview of the lifecycle from a Java .java file to a .NET .dll and consuming it in a .NET application.  The team working on IVKM is simply brilliant—this was great! Step #1 – Creating the Java source file. Let’s say I have a simple Employee class in Java (screenshots are in Eclipse, your Java editor may

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• Creating a Google AJAX Search Control in .NET

  Published: October 30, 2007, 10:02 am

  Tags: Net 2 0, Net 3 5, Ajax, Google, Javascript, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008

  As I discussed yesterday, the current non-SOAP Google approach is to use 100% JavaScript and their own custom UIs.  That really annoys me that I can’t take the service, call it, pass along some values, and get search results back. My next thought was, if nothing else, encapsulate all the odd options and such into a nice little

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