Archive for June, 2005

DataUtils Sample Project

Thursday, June 30th, 2005

Well, someone suggested that a sample little project would be much better than just the DataUtils Dll’s & a couple of sample xml files, so I’ve made a quick sample to get you started.
You can find the project here.
Note: You must create a DSN called “DataUtilsSample” that uses the Access DB file included […]

XmlSerialization in .NET part 3 (arrays & lists)

Friday, June 17th, 2005

Well, it’s been a while, but here we are again, in our third episode of our adventures in Xml Serialization in .NET.
Today, I’m gonna be dealing with how to serialize nested object trees, in arrays & lists. I’m gonna be using the last example, where we deserialized / serialized a class of type […]

ASP.NET 2.0 Seminar Day 3

Friday, June 17th, 2005

Weyhey !!! .. what a day ! Since today, I’m an official, Microsoft Certified … attendee !
Seriously now, this has been perhaps the most interesting day in this 3-day seminar. We got a closer look at Web Parts, talked briefly about a few changes in the ASp.NET Cache, and took a closer look […]

ASP.NET 2.0 Seminar Day 2

Friday, June 17th, 2005

Well … today has been a more interesting day. We spent it on Data Access where much change has come about indeed !

Starting off, then, with .. Declarative Data Access:
Apparently, in Visual Studio 2005 and in ASP.NET 2.0, there’s a bunch of new components called Data Sources. There’s an Sql Server data source, Xml data […]

ASP.NET 2.0 Seminar day 1

Tuesday, June 14th, 2005

For three days, I’m attending a seminar from Microsoft on ASP.NET 2.0. It’s my first time on an official Microsoft course, so this is all new to me.

What struck me on the get-go, was that the mix of people attending was not what I’d originally expected. There were four people from traditional MS-based solution […]