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I am now an MCP!

I took the Microsoft 70-536 .NET Framework Foundation exam today and passed! Whew, it was kind of scary. I haven't taken an exam in over ten years, not since college. I spent about two weeks studying. I read the MS Press book , and read it again. Then I took the tear-out objectives worksheet and typed...

Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 07-06-2007
Exceptional Exceptions

There are many, many exceptions in the .NET framework. The base type of all exceptions is the System.Exception class. There are a couple rules you want to follow when throwing exceptions. First, avoid throwing the System.Exception or System.SystemException base types. When you go to catch an exception...

Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 06-20-2007
Frameworks

A couple weeks ago I bought Pro WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 3.0, as an eBook of course. I'm in chapter two, and something the author said made me stop and think. "The term framework implies order, structure, and control. It represents much more than just a collection of classes. It provides...

Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 06-14-2007
Lessons of HyperCard

Robert Scoble posted an article about 1989; the year that Apple released the Macintosh II. He argues that part of Apple's lack of market penetration is due to a lack of developer tools, whereas Microsoft focused heavily on the developer aspect of their platform. He also talks about HyperCard . This got...

Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 06-14-2007
Hashtables and Stacks and LinkedLists Oh My

In the ArchDevBrainPick call this morning, a question was asked regarding how to determine which collection type to use. In .NET, the System.Collections namespace is quite vast and it can be easy to get lost in there. Ok, well maybe not vast, but it does leave you with some design choices. I'll present...

Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 06-08-2007
Managed Package Framework and VB.NET

I attended a session by Don Demsak (aka DonXML) on Visual Studio extensibility at Philly.NET's Code Camp two weeks ago. I have always been interested in extending Visual Studio, and I got some good insight. I finally had a chance to start playing with the VSIP stuff again this weekend. I created...

Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 06-06-2007
Editable ComboBox

A colleague ran into an issue awhile back trying to edit data in a DataGrid. He had a ComboBox, and wanted to be able to edit the text to a value not bound to it. The answer is really simple, but not well documented. The first step is to create a class that derives from DataGridViewComboBoxCell. This...

Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 06-05-2007
Are you .NETicated?

Yesterday I acquired a new domain name, www.dotneticated.com, thanks to GoDaddy backordering. It’s a name that came to me a couple of weeks ago, and I think it makes sense. There are several dozen English language words that end in “icated”, some of the more technical ones are: authenticated communicated...

Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 04-27-2007
Two-Phase MQ Commit From .NET

Awhile back, I was building a .NET application which needed to do two-phase commit between MS SQL 2000 and MQSeries (5.3 CSD04 on production). I had the 5.3 CSD05 client installed on my dev box, and the SQL code worked out. But I couldn't figure out how to implement the MQ Series 2-phase commit in .NET...

Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 04-26-2007
Xml Schemas – Part 2

As I posted previously, I have issues. For the purpose of this discussion we'll limit it to my issues relate to working with Xml Schemas. I have found more fodder for my discussion. Anything pre-version 2.0 in OFX was laid out in DTDs, not XSDs. For XSDs, .NET has the System.Xml.Schema namespace. There...

Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 04-19-2007

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