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Catching up to MVC

Posted in .NET, Enterprise, MVC on January 29, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Contrary to my nature, I’ve been reluctant to adopt the “latest and greatest” from Microsoft for the past twelve months or so. A good deal of my tech lag time has been due to my primary position leading an Oracle Enterprise Business Suite (EBS) project which has put me in the world of red, not [...]

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TFS Management with Team Foundation Sidekicks 2010

Posted in .NET, TFS on August 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Recently, I’ve had a series of unfortunate events regarding my development environment. I’ve had some hard drive issues, some difficulties with a VM that I had been working on, and so it goes. All of these problems led to a rebuild recently and the spin up of a brand new development environment. Unfortunately, rebuilding your [...]

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Reviving Dependency Walker

Posted in .NET, General on April 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »

If you haven’t noticed, I am a big fan of reviving the fanfare of some of the older development tools that are out there. Of course, there are constantly new tools released to help developers work smarter, faster, and more effectively – but often with all of the excitement over these new tools we forget [...]

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Tips For Working With Enums

Posted in .NET on February 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

If you use enums frequently throughout code, you may be interested in the following code snippets. The first, is a fairly common extension method I’ve seen for getting descriptions from enum values (this is not my code and unfortunately, I can only site Google as the source). /// <summary> /// A collection of extension methods [...]

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PhotoMemory WP7 App

Posted in .NET, WP7 on January 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »

The Basic Outline of Functionality Choose the difficulty mode to play in. Clear default picture values used in development. Set the board up based on the difficulty mode. Get personal photos from the phone. Shuffle photos and select appropriate number based on difficulty mode. Create pairs and shuffle all cards/photos. Display unturned cards and any [...]

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VS2010 Schema Compare Order of Operations

Posted in .NET on October 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Take the formulas 1 + 2 x 3 and (1 + 2) x 3; two completely different answers. In the case of Visual Studio Schema Compare, what I would assume the order of operations to be for updating a database would be to first update tables, then updates views (which could be dependent on the [...]

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VS2010 Schema Compare Crashing

Posted in .NET on October 5, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Immediate crash on VS2010 schema compare.

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Qxtend Query Service, .NET, and Dexter

Posted in .NET, Enterprise on September 24, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Connecting to QAD via Qxtend and .NET without using XSD’s.

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Cache Management Helper Class

Posted in .NET on March 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »

As a follow up to my post on creating a Web Session Management and Centralization Class, I thought I would also touch on one method of presentation level caching. Caching, as well all know, stores a local version of some data closer to the actual requestor making the call, whether it is in the BLL, [...]

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