July 2006 - Posts

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Covariance, Contravariance and Generics by dotnetgeek

This post is a result of an expensive lesson I learned. The situation: We use an MVP style architecture, Presentation Abstraction Control , on our application. As such the controller maintains a reference to the view(presentation) and the model(control...
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Finally On 2007 Beta 2 by dotnetgeek

Well, I have finally got my VPC with Office 2007 Beta 2 installed. Here is my first post from Word 2007. Nothing new I know. Dave Cooper has done it and so has Rick . Oooh wee I feel special. Pretty cool. Once I registered, it figured out my eligible...
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Windows Forms 2.0 Development - Error and Information Providers by dotnetgeek

So as some of you know, in my previous life I used to be a server side developer that worked mostly on middle tier work. That meant that mostly I dealt with applications that would run on web servers and loved the work. For the last year though I have...
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Migrated to Community Server 2.1 powered by ASPNIX.com by dotnetgeek

Well its official! We are officially migrated to CS 2.1 Beta 2 and here is the proof! First I have to say a big shout out to ASPNIX.com. Not only did we upgrade but we are now proudly hosted by aspnix.com. If you didn't know, ASPNIX is the place to be...
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What Every Developer Should Know About Character Sets by dotnetgeek

Alright, I admit it, I had never really understood character sets until recently (gasp!!). Let's face it, learning to be an international superstar developer is hard enough without having to worry about big/little endian or ASCII / Unicode. This was always...
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Data Dude Chugs Along by dotnetgeek

Wow. It seems like only a month or so ago that I was at MS to learn about VSTE for Database Professionals and they have already released CTP4. Worse, it was 2 weeks back! So I am downloading it now to give the new project system a try. This release was...
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CodeRush 2.0 and DXCore by dotnetgeek

Let me start by saying it is not my intention to start a which tool is better CodeRush 2.0 or ReSharper debate. I think that each has some stronger points and in the end you should be using one if not both of the tools. This is a post about what I really...
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Packet School 101 by dotnetgeek

I came across a post on Darrel Norton's blog about learning to use Ethereal for debugging netowrk traffic. The tutorial comes from Chris Sanders. Check out part one here . From there you can follow the rest of the series. You can download Ethereal here...
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XmlSerializer by dotnetgeek

Scott Hanselman is at it again with his latest video casts for developer tools. You can follow the latest installment here . It is worth the watch. Especially if you have ever fought with complex object graph serialization. Wow. 20 minutes goes fast....
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The Hanselmetric by dotnetgeek

This is a good one from Scott Bellware [MVP]. Scott introduces the Hanselmetric. He writes about a subject that I have to agree with. Scott Hanselman has done a great service by letting us know the products that seem to work for him. I know that I have...
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Medium Trust Please??? by dotnetgeek

So I was looking at changing my host from webhost4life to aspnix since I have read and seen a lot of good things lately. Affter having signed up for aspnix, I learned that CS 2.0 will not run in Medium Trust. After doing a little more research it appears...
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Presentation Abstraction Control by dotnetgeek

Presentation Abstraction Control (PAC) pattern is similar to the Model View Controller (MVC) pattern. The main difference between the patterns is that in MVC there is a coupling between the model and the view, the model and the controller and the controller...
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