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I did a presentation this afternoon on some of the basic functions of WCF. I had put a slide deck together using a new Microsoft Office add-in called PPTPlex. You can see demos of what this add-in does in the provided link, but basically is allows for a much more dynamic experience of going through the slides in a slide deck. As compared to the ...

I recall my first experience with Word 2007...it took me 20 minute to figure out how to do a Save As. Who would have figured that the cute icon in the top left corner actually had functionality associated with it. :) In a blog post from Chris Sells, I was point to a tool whose purpose is to bridge this gap. You see an on-line image of Office ...

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 challenging. Not since ADO.NET implemented a provider model using the Db... classes that are part of ...

Recently, a question regarding the cost associated with migrating from VB6 to VB.NET was asked by one of our clients. Since that is a question whose answer has a broader appeal than just to the asker, I thought I would replicate my response here. It should be stated up front, however, that I don't normally recommend a migration from VB6 to .NET. ...

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 qualified type name (including the name of the assembly). But the GetType failed. Naturally, ...

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 with a user interface that looks more like a typical Windows form. You know, with labels, and ...

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 seem to end. At the moment, we're looking to add some consultants to our team. ...

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. But it turns out that the file was still 'being used by another process'. The solution is ...

I just sat through a session on Expression Web. They were showing some of the functionality that was currently being used, along with some of the plans for the next version. There are a couple of points that I'd like to make clear that came out of the session. Expression Web fills the same space as Visual Studio. They are targeted to different ...

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 platform, all was well and good. The problem arose when I delivered the application. Like ...