January 2006 - Posts

Java, .NET, Web Services and Enums

While working on getting a Java Web service and a .NET Web service client to talk to one another, I ran into an interesting situation. The problem had to do with the WSDL being produced by the Java service. Actually, the entire process involved the following Read More...

A Must-Attend Conference

For those of you interested in furthering your development career, might I suggest checking out Waterfall 2006 . It’s new, but oh so relevant. Thanks to Howard for the heads-up. Read More...

Automatic Check-Out Not Working with VSTS/TFS

For the last little while I have been having an issue using source control under TFS. Specifically, when I go to edit a file that (I believe) is under source control, I'm allowed to do so. What's worse, when I go to save the file (like when the application Read More...

News on TFS Release Candidate

Just passing this information on to any who might have missed it. Look for the Release Candidate for TFS in early February. http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffbe/archive/2006/01/19/514801.aspx Read More...

Equality Overloading and Code Analysis

One of the things I like about VS 2005 is the integration of FxCop functionality into the IDE. Most of the time, it informs me of better practices to things that I would have done differently in previous versions of .NET. A good example is the IsNullOrEmpty Read More...

Toronto Code Camp is in the Books

Well the first Toronto Code Camp is finished and, as far as I can tell, it was a success. There was somewhere north of 175 people who spent their Saturday to hear some wonderful speakers discuss technology. Current technology. Future technology. And lots Read More...