January 2007 Blog Posts
I needed to open a port on my Virtual Dedicated Server, which is hosted by godaddy. Since I don't have a software firewall installed there I decided to call Technical Support to see how I could do this. I really try to avoid calling their Customer Support and here is why.From the moment I said I had a Virtual Dedicated Server, the "technical" rep, if you can call him technical, put on his mind that I shouldn't get any support because they don't provide support for Virtual Dedicated Customers. It was all on me. I told him I had no...
I was looking around for a way to change source control providers. I found a bunch of blogs and articles talking about updating the registry so I was going to summarize it here until I found out about the following:You can change your source control provider of Visual Studio 2005 by going to Tools - Options - Source Control - Plug-in Selection. There you have a drop down to change your provider. Happy Programming!
When you add a DataTable with a DataAdapter on a DataSet for a web app, Visual Studio takes you through a wizard to set some properties of the DataAdapter. One of those properties is the ConnectionString and it saves that info on the web.config, which is exactly where we want that piece of information. The problem comes when you want to set the DataSet on an external project with a DLL output. For example when you're implementing N-Tiering (the DataAccess layer.) The ConnectionString gets saved on the app.config file.When you add the reference of the DataAccess layer the app.config doesn't get...
This past weekend was the 2007 Atlanta Code Camp. It was a total success. Great speakers, sessions, organization, and participants. I must say we must have had over 300 attendees and about 25 sessions. Both of my two sessions went great, but I guess the truth lies on the evals sheet. Anyway, if you're looking for the code and powerpoints of my 2 sessions you can find them here. If they are not there, be patient, they will be there.Thanks everyone who attended my sessions and asked questions...Happy Programming!
This Object Data Source is very nice to use and almost all examples you see out there use primitive types as parameters. The question arrives when you want to pass an object as a parameter. You can't do it declaretively, so you have to do it on the codebehind. I've done this a million times, I told myself. I have changed the value of a parameter dinamically before. All you have to do is handle the inserting, updating, deleting event of the ODS and change the ods.updateparameters[0].defaultvalue. Well there's a problem with that! The DefaultValue takes a string and we...