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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
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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
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Named after a venerable Canadian national park (due to the overwhelming influence of Canadians on the Microsoft Data team, who are taking over the U.S. one developer at a time), Jasper is one of the incubation projects from the System.Data team introduced
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The more I see about Silverlight, both 1.0 and 1.1, the more I realize that WPF has found a client to service. From the moment I heard about XAML and WPF, I questioned where it was going to fit in the real world. A large part of the 'coolness' of XAML
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The April 20th edition of Computer Canada had a feature article on (generally) the asset value that employees bring to a company. I mention this because, as it turns out, I'm quoted in the article. I believe that documentation is not the solution to the
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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
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The second annual Toronto Code Camp took place this past Saturday. By all accounts, it was a tremendous success with over 250 people giving their Saturday over to many things technical. I gave a presentation on extending the ObjectDataSource control,
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I'm doing some work creating WebPart components in ASP.NET 2.0 and discovered a dependency that I wasn't initially expecting...the need for a database. It appears that in order to even place a WebPart onto a form, you need to have a database. Or at least
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I was using the BoundField element in ASP.NET 2.0’s GridView control. More specifically, I was attempting to use the DataFormatString element in order to change the look of dates and dollar amounts as they get displayed. Much to my dismay, it didn’t
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I just got through a grueling session of installing the release candidate for Team Foundation Server. And by grueling, I mean about 16 hours worth. And given all of the glowing reports, I was surprised that this install turned about to be more challenging
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