UPDATE: Added the presentation to download below. I found through a blog post of Greg Duncan a site (Research channel) that has a video of 3 hours on how to design class libraries in .net. “Produced: January 22, 2007 Description: This class presents best practices for designing frameworks that are reusable object-oriented libraries. The guidelines [...]
Archive for March, 2007
Part2: On my way to MCTS
Today I passed my second certification exam. I took the 70-529 exam (Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0: Distributed Application Development). I got 93,7% which is not bad if I say so myself Next on the menu is the 70-526 exam (Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 – Windows-Based Client Development). I think I will take this some near [...]
Running an Ajax ModalPopup from code behind
The ajax control toolkit contains a control called ModalPopupExtender. This extender allows you to create a dialog-like interface for webpages.When you use it like it is meant to use you would set a TargetControlID and a PopupControlID. The first is the control that will trigger the popup to show while the latter is the control [...]
DesignMode + UserControls = HELL!!!
Today I had to work with some usercontrols in our project. The problem was that we do some database access from within the constructor. For all this to work well everything needs to be in the right place and configured correctly which is not the case in design mode. So when I tried to open [...]
IE Png Transparancy fix
When I was working on the ISBNDB API wrapper website I faced the problem of having grey backgrounds on my png images that were supposed to be transparant. After searching for a bit on the all knowing google I found the following site that proposes a working fix in the form of a javascript. URL: [...]
ISBNDB API Wrapper: First Result
Hello, I’ve been working on and off on the isbndb api wrapper. It’s a managed component that wraps around the api of isbndb.com. I’ve created a small website that will demonstrate the functionalities of the wrapper. It is still very basic and there are already more functionalities completed that can not be tested on the [...]
Disclaimer
Due to recent postings I would like to take your attention to this blog’s disclaimer. You can find it by clicking on the about link on top of the page. Anyways here it is once more: Disclaimer Suddenelfilio ‘s Blog The information in this weblog is provided “AS IS” with no warranties, and confers no [...]
Which way? OneWay! (Web Services)
I’m currently studying for my next microsoft exam (70-529) that gets you certified for distributed development. I was reading in the training guide when someone asked me what the use was of the OneWay attribute. So I explained to him that you can mark a web method with the OneWay attribute which indicates that this [...]
Think twice
Today I arranged that I would go to my company to set up some software in the evening. We have got a server there that we used to run some test vm’s on. On this server there was a paper taped to it stating that nobady should shutdown or disconnect the server. I’ve been gone [...]