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.NET Training, Consulting, Coaching & Development
October 2003 - Posts
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Visual Studio .NET 2002/2003 has great designer support for ADO.NET with Windows Forms and Web applications. However, I'm not doing data access directly from the presentation layer, but instead from components in a library.
Whidbey will have ADO.NET Read More
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.NET 2.0 has a new FtpWebRequest class to upload and download files to a FTP server. This class can be used similar to FileWebRequest and HttpWebRequest.
If you need such a class with 1.1 or want to extend WebRequest for other protocols, there is a FTP Read More
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.NET 2 has new factories that makes it easier to write data-programs independent of the databsae.
With .NET 1.0, we could program independent of the database using interfaces:
IDbConnection connection = new SqlConnection(connectionString);IDbCommand Read More
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PDC Information from the Microsoft Research keynote - Rick Rashid:
1998 Microsoft had the Terraserver with more than 1 TB data of satellite pictures from earth. Now we can look into the sky:
skyserver.sdss.org
10 TB of picture data, 1 TB catalog information. Read More
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A new Microsoft Developer Tools Roadmap 2004-2005(6) is available!
The article not only mentions the improvements of Whidbey, but also gives some information about Whitehourse (inluding pictures) which is a tool to design service-oriented applications Read More
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Chapter 2 is sent to the publisher :-)
This chapter covers contexts - discussing both COM+ and .NET Remoting contexts, and how they relate, as well as building a simple serviced component, JITA, and object pooling.
Christian Read More
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At PDC I've bought the new books from Al & Dave. Definitely worth having a look at: new ASP.NET, ADO.NET, and XML features.
A First Look at ASP.NET v 2.0
A First Look at ADO.NET and System Xml v 2.0
Every PDC attendee received Read More
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Doug Purdy demonstrated versioned serialization in his presentation "Indigo: Using XSD, CLR Types, and Serialization in Web Services".
Until now the BinaryFormatter was not version-aware, that's why we always had to implement the ISerializable interface Read More
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With Indigo there's no longer the question to choose between .NET Remoting and ASP.NET Web Services.
Indigo covers all: Indigo Web Services and Indigo RemoteObject Services. ;-)
Christian Read More
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Indigo will not only be available with Longhorn, the bits will also be available with Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.
Information from Don Box during his PDC presentation "Indigo: Services and the Future of Distributed Applications".
Update: Read More
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Eric Rudder mentioned new .NET languages in his keynote-presentation:
Beta
Delphi
F# (CAML)
Pizza
P# (Prolog)
Ruby
Who is using other than C#, VB.NET, C++, J# for .NET Programming in real applications?
Christian Read More
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Yesterday I've done the new certification for the MSF Practitioner. Passed :-)
I've already been MSF (Microsoft Solutions Framework) certified for many years. With the first MSF version an on-site certifcation was needed. Last year the re-certification Read More
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Scott Guthrie describes his Cool Tips and Tricks talk for PDC: Cross Page Postbacks ValidationGroups: no validation with a Cancel Workflows with the asp:Wizard control new ImageGeneration service Url Rewriting SiteCounter service A content management Read More
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Filling a DataSet with multiple tables can be done by sending multiple requests to the database, or in a faster way: Multiple SELECT statements can be sent to the database server in a single request. The problem here is that the tables generated from Read More
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I've added a new category to my weblog: Code Snippets.
Here I will show some code segments that generate special interest in my courses.
For example, one "homework" that I've given to my online students is that they should create a class to make this Read More
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SBC received the Professional .NET Network Programming book, and has some good comments about it :-)
I also like the comments on Amazon :-)
The book is nearly out of stock, but the last copies are sold at a very low price. A new edition Read More
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Jason Zander has a really good blog about NGen - he talks about the advantages of NGen, and where it should / should not be used. Jason also gives some Future Directions on this tool that we may see at PDC: ngen /repair - fixing up cached images New Read More
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Jeff has sent me a T-Shirt for blogging about PDC! Thanks, Jeff!
Corey Gouker has a T-Shirt picture in his blog.
Christian Read More
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I've just created a web service client to get a cinema ticket for Matrix Revolutions. Microsoft Austria offers cinema tickets for Matrix Revolutions by calling a Web Service. I like this idea!
Calling the web service an email is returned that includes Read More
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After PDC, I'm extending my vacation for a few days to fly to San Francisco. My wife Elisabeth is flying directly to this city (from Europe), so we can have some good days there!
What belongs to the "must-see" in Frisco (besides the Golden Gates Read More
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I've just finished the first chapter of my new book. The major part was already done before, but now I've updated the styles to a new format from the publisher. Also, I've changed some sections.
Chapter 1 gives an overview about distributed applications, Read More
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A extra course date was added (1 to 5-December) where I'm teaching the Microsoft course "Analyzing Requirements and Defining Microsoft .NET Solution Architectures". The course is in Vienna, Austria. You can contact me for more information.
This will Read More
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Scott Guthrie is on .NET Rocks to talk about ASP.NET 2.0. Edgar Sánchez gives a summary about this interview, and lists many new ASP.NET 2.0 features. Christian Read More
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Frank Eller is coming to Vienna, .NET User Group Austria, to talk about creating Windows Forms controls.
Christian Read More
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One of the first things I've done in my new company (besides doing organizational stuff, preparing for a course, writing a book…) is writing a small utility to measure my time spent. The reason for this utility is that I really want to know how Read More
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UI design is one thing I'm not doing by myself. The same is true for business cards. I'm more in the services-side of software development (Enterprise Services, XML Web Services, .NET Remoting, Data Access...).
I will always remember the words Read More
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After working for Digital Equipment and Global Knowledge for 18 years, today I'm starting my own company offering .NET training, consulting, coaching, development: http://www.christiannagel.com. The website will get a new design (and will be available Read More
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