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Introduction One of the new features being added to version 4.0 of ASP.NET is the ability to control the client side IDs that are generated by the framework. Previously the framework would modify the client side IDs to uniquely identify each control....
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Yesterday's post dealt with Len Silverston's Party Role model and how to take it to a physical model using ER/Studio. After re-reading the post, I realized that while a party may have a role that distinguishes it as a person rather than an organization...
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A central theme in my current work is the idea of a universal data model. Research in this direction led to noted author and consultant Len Silverston and his work on the subject which led to licensing ER/Studio and Len's models from Embarcadero Read...
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On Tuesday I got a call up from a developer that was dealing with an unusual ASP.NET problem and was looking for some help. I am not an expert with ASP.NET at all, but we booted up in a Shared View session to look at the problem (that had been stopping...
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I've recently been looking for simpler and more effective tools for collaborating with geographically distributed teams. The first order of business is to find something better than a whiteboard that can be shared amongst multiple users. After some...
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A few weeks ago I made some updates to my Regular Expression Assembly Builder that I wrote some time back. These updates have long been requested by users and I finally carved out some time to get them implemented. These are the new features in verion...
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Suppose you have a table (tblDemo) and a view (vwDemo) over that table that joins tblDemo to another table to retrieve their results. The view might resemble the following: CREATE VIEW vwDemo AS SELECT d.*, o.OtherField01, o.OtherField02 FROM tblDemo...
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I had a lot of fun preparing for and presenting on Silverlight 2 at the Utah .NET User Group the other night. It was a great evening. Thanks to all that come out to participate and help bolster the .NET development community. :) Read More...
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After a long search for the right business process management platform that would allow us to integrate and extend with .NET, my team selected the Ultimus BPM Suite . The primary factors in the decision were the comprehensive nature of the solution which...
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Alright, this has been a downright stumper and I'm currently at a loss. For this reason, therefore, I'm opening up to the community to see if anyone out there has any recommendations to this dilemma. The issue revolves around running a 32-bit...
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Two years ago I wrote this poem at a particularly dark moment, the result of having been shunned by a sibling in the harshest of terms cutting off all communication. Now two years later, the circumstances of that event are brought to the fore reminding...
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The following spam message (less the links) skipped through my spam filters somehow. If you are not a native speaker of English, this message may appear to be in order if your skill level with the language is limited. Otherwise, I suspect you will find...
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In some instances it might be best if your tests did not run in the same application as the website being tested. This is where the “IApplicationPathFinder” interface comes into play. If you implement this interface you will see that it only has one method...
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I had a colleague ask me how he could solve a databinding problem while building a WPF Menu. The immediate answer wasn’t apparent to me, though it’s actually quite simple. A while back Karl Shifflett wrote up an excellent example of doing...
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I'm experimenting with using the Guid type in databases and applications but I don't like the string format of the Guid. It's not easily read or formatted on a report. I wanted to find a way to represent very large integers such as the Guid...