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.NET codecamp in Alabama at Huntsville.

The Alabama .Net Code Camp 6.0 event will be held on Feb 23rd. Call is out to speakers. Many have signed up mainly mainly from Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi.

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.NET codecamp in Alabama at Huntsville.

The Huntsville Alabama Code Camp will be held on February 23rd, 2008 from 7:30 AM – 5PM. The location is Virginia College in Huntsville.

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Community Credit…

When a site bills itself as ‘We give stupid prizes to smart people’, it certainly deserves attention. If you have not checked this site out, do visit http://www.communitycredit.com/. David Silverlight is the brains behind this community driven effort. Each month the site recognizes members of the developer community that has contributed to the community in […]

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Junction Points

On XP, the utility linkd.exe can be used to create NTFS junction points. Junction points let you ‘graft’ a target folder onto another NTFS folder or mount a volume onto an NTFS junction point. Junction points solve the problem of needing more then 26 drive letters. e.g. linkd c:\mydir c:\wheresourceis\alongwayaway This utility is available on […]

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WCF webcast series

If you are trying to learn WCF, check out Michele Leroux Bustamante’s great 15 part WCF MSDN webcast series this summer. Michele is the chief Architect of IDesign. Read her book – “Learning WCF” and also check out Juwal Lowy (also from IDesign) – “Programming WCF Services” book.

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Learning LINQ

Learning LINQ and the various nuances, including how C# 3.0 features are leveraged. Anonymous Types var test = new {Field1=value1, Field2=value2}; var fullName = new {FirstName=”Susan”, LastName=”Howe”}; Extension Methods List customers = new List(); customers.Add(new Customer(1,”Roger”,”Minnesota”)); customers.Add(new Customer(2,”Susan”,”San Francisco”)); customers.Add(new Customer(3,”Hector”,”New York”)); var abe = collection.Single(c => c.Name.Equals(“Hector”)); Lambda Expressions (int i) => {return i […]

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Asp.net applications – data access in a database agnostic data way

string databaseConnectionString =ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings [“DatabaseConnectionString”].connectionString; string databaseProviderName = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings [“DatabaseConnectionString”].ProviderName; DbProviderFactory databaseProvider = DbProviderFactories.GetFactory(databaseProviderName); using (DbConnection dbConn = provider.CreateConnection()){ dbConn.ConnectionString = connectionString using (DbCommand command = dbConn.CreateCommand()) { dbConn.Open(); using (DbDataReader dr = command.ExecuteReader()) { // Do Something… } }}

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XBAP or WPF

XBAP or WPF is a subject that came up recently. Came across a link that lists the differences>>

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Beginning AJAX with ASP.NET – book review

Recently, had a chance to review a book on AJAX called ‘Beginning AJAX with ASP.NET’ by Wally McClure, Scott Cate, Paul Glavich and Craig ShoeMaker. Wally was kind enough to send me the book. The entire review is posted on the local user group web site, however here’s an excerpt. This is a good book […]

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Montgomery Code Camp

The .NET code camp at Montgomery, Al was excellent. Bruce Thomas and crew put on a great show. Some excellent presentations, including one of my favorites – Vb9/C#/ and first look at LINQ to SQL by Jim Wooley. Jim is a great presenter. Also, attended the first .NET University event at the code camp. This […]

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