Browse by Tags

ORA-01008 Not All Variables Bound error

I have recently had the opportunity to work ( once again ) with Oracle. Specifically, I had to create a mechanism that would, based on configurable settings, update either a SQL Server or an Oracle database. In and of itself, this is not particularly Read More...

GetType on a Dynamically Loaded Assembly

The application on which I'm working has the opportunity to dynamically load and assembly. Later in the application, one of the types from the loaded assembly need be retrieved using GetType. More specifically, the GetType was performed using a fully Read More...

An Old Problem is New Again

I ran into a problem yesterday that brought back memories. And not the good kind of memories either. I'm doing some work using TypeConverters. In particular, I'm creating a Windows Forms control that functions in a manner similar to a PropertyGrid, but Read More...

Looking for Mr (or Ms) GoodDeveloper

Business has been booming of late at ObjectSharp. Don't know whether it's the weather or the business cycle, but our recent company barbeque had more new faces that I've seen in many years. And we haven't lost any of the old faces either. And yet it doesn't Read More...

Relieving File in Use Problems

It's quite possible this is old news to people, but it took me more than a couple of minutes to find the solution. I was using the FromFile method on the Image class to create a new Image object. When I was done with the Image, I needed to move the file. Read More...

What's the Big Announcement?

For weeks now, there has been a buzz about a big announcement at the Mix '07 conference. Well, in his keynote, Ray Ozzie made the following announcements: Expression Studio is shipping today - See here for the details. One of the interesting elements Read More...

A Big Strike Against TableAdapters

I'm hoping that someone reads this post and corrects me. But I'm not holding out much hope. I don't normally use TableAdapters, but for a small application I decided that they seem like a reasonable choice. And so long as I was using them on my development Read More...

A Peek into the Future Of Dynamic Languages

Technorati tags: Mix 07 , dynamic languages , clr There has been a lot of nothing coming out of Microsoft over the last couple of months. I mostly noticed it at the MVP Summit in March, where the level of NDA content (for C# people anyway was non-existent) Read More...

Taking it on the Road

This coming Saturday (April 28th), I'm going to be doing my Extending the ObjectDataSource talk at the Calgary Code Camp. While this isn't the first time I've spoken in Calgary (I did an MSDN User Group Tour there a couple of years ago), it has certainly Read More...

Roadmap for VSTS

Microsoft has just released ( here ) a moderately detailed description of where Team Systems is going over the next 12 months or so. The roadmap also includes the beginnings of the functionality that will be found in the next version of VSTS (code named Read More...
More Posts Next page »