August 2004 - Posts

dasBlog Security Patch

Just passing the word along. If you are running dasBlog, you should be aware of a potential security problem and the appropriate steps to take. More details are available here . Read More...

Avalon and Indigo on Windows XP

If you haven't yet heard the announcement, Microsoft is planning on having Avalon and Indigo running on Windows XP. This might seem like old news, but until now, there was no confirmation of backwards compatibility. As well, the target date for the client Read More...

Flash and Blogging Combined

If you're looking for an interesting combination of Flash and blogging, check out http://www.elusiverealm.com/verbiage/ . Nick is the person behind the look, feel and graphics of www.ObjectSharp.com , as well as someone with a little too much spare time. Read More...

Wrapping your Hands around the Throat of EnforceConstraints

Do enforced constraints have you down? They did for me today. I was getting the following error as I set EnforceConstraints on a freshly filled DataSet to true. Failed to enable constraints. One or more rows contain values violating non-null, unique, Read More...

Getting the App Config Path

Need to path to your app.config file? This blog entry describes how to get it. Read More...

Legal Analysis from an Easy Chair

So I was cruising around the Internet, as I frequently spend my spare time on the weekend (as sad as that is), and I came across this post by John Dvorak. He refers to a BBC article that describes how Microsoft is clamping down on sites using peer-to-peer Read More...

The Danger of using

It is well known that the C# using statement is quite handy, especially when the object including in the using statement needs to be disposed. However, there is a danger associated with having certain tasks done for you. That is, that it is easy to forget Read More...

Smart Client seminar

We have scheduled the second in our series of Architect's Breakfast seminars . It takes place on Sept 23 in downtown Toronto and will be digging into the architectural details surrounding Smart Client technology. If you are trying to resolve the conflict Read More...

Once more with NVARCHAR2

You might have guessed from my prior post on NVARCHAR2, that I'm doing a little work with Oracle. As with many other aspects of technology, it's always a little dangerous to be completely familiar with a competing product, as you tend to bring along the Read More...

Assembly Signing Changes in VS2005

Just spending the evening playing with Visual Studio 2005 (which says a lot about my life, but that's another story). Actually, because a lot of my most recent has been with COM+, I've been poking and prodding in that area. As a result, I have been (by Read More...

When Structs Go Bad

The assignment of a property in a struct throws a compilation error ("The left-hand side of an assignment must be a variable, property or indexer.") if the struct has been added to certain collection data types. This entry describes the reason why. Read More...

Oracle, Unicode and NVARCHAR2, oh my

Inserting values into an NVARCHAR2 field can unexpectantly throw a 'value too long' exception. This blog describes the reason behind the problem. Read More...