March 2006 - Posts

Miguel Castro @ dnrtv
Published 03-30-2006 9:30 PM | jokiz
i just saw the first episode of DNRTV (dotnetrocks tv) about webcontrols. fantastic pioneer episode and excellent presentation by Miguel Castro. i noticed though that the pro developers have been using third party refactoring tools eventhough they are...
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dotnetrocks tv
Published 03-29-2006 8:28 PM | jokiz
i was trying to catch up with the previous podcasts of dot net rocks where i've heard of their new project dnrtv . i tried downloading the tdd episode of boodhoo to my dismay. reason is i haven't used nmock framework which is where the episode actually...
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vs 2003 bug with embedded resources
Published 03-29-2006 10:22 AM | jokiz
an officemate of mine got this problem wherein he had specified already the mapping xml files for nhibernate but when he tries to debug it, it was not able to load the said mapping files. turns out he found a bug in vs 2003 that i should have found out...
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SlickRun
Published 03-28-2006 1:40 PM | jokiz
i just downloaded SlickRun after hearing it from boodhoo's episode in dotnetrocks. my officemate has been using it for quite some time now and i've decided that i give it a shot. seems like i can now eliminate the most used application icons in my quick...
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NHibernate Documentation
Published 03-27-2006 8:28 PM | jokiz
I've been trying to learn this NHibernate O/R mapper but the documentation for NHibernate is still incomplete. I was reading the incomplete docs weeks ago when i ran into this statements: Implicit polymorphism means that instances of the class will be...
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Remote SQL Server debugging
Published 03-27-2006 7:47 PM | jokiz
back in my previous company, i was not able to debug stored procedures remotely using either visual studio (i like its debugger by the way) or through Query Analyzer. back then, the KB's that i found just talks about a settings when the SQL 2000 was installed...
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VS 2005
Published 03-22-2006 4:13 AM | jokiz
i tried to open a 7.0 version of a VS project file with VS 2005 a while ago. conversion wizard prompts me with the usual dialogs and suddenly it hanged. i killed the devenv.exe process and take a look at what my VS 2005 now looks like: guess i have to...
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Server Explorer
Published 03-21-2006 7:03 PM | jokiz
I wanted to browse the tables of a Microsoft Access mdb file but unluckily, i just have the standard edition of Microsoft Office on my machine (which obviously does not have Microsoft Access). Obviously it's not a problem for me, since I have Visual Studio...
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set collections
Published 03-20-2006 12:39 AM | jokiz
i recently downloaded NHibernate and saw that it uses this special (set-based) collections (Iesi.Collections) found here . Operator overloading is really cool!
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@@IDENTITY vs SCOPE_IDENTITY()
Published 03-20-2006 4:26 AM | jokiz
I have read a number of books/articles and I wonder why they always use the global variable @@IDENTITY in obtaining the generated identity after an INSERT operation. They should be using SCOPE_IDENTITY() instead which is safer due to triggers. With SCOPE_IDENTITY...
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Handling designtime resize for controls
Published 03-17-2006 7:08 PM | jokiz
How to do this? You don’t have to override OnResize and do those checks (DesignMode, IsHandleCreated, etc.). I’ve been here and I’ve encountered a number of problems. A better way is to create a designer class, attach a handler on the Resize event of...
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locked assemblies
Published 03-16-2006 4:42 PM | jokiz
once in a while, VS will issue me a "Could not copy temporary files to the output directory" when trying to rebuild a solution. this is a known bug and is described in this KB . problem is, i have configured the referenced assemblies as copy local true...
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Sql Server Enterprise Manager context menu
Published 03-16-2006 4:37 PM | jokiz
sql server and iis both uses mmc so they both are grouped together in windows xp. my question is why did ms designed the mmc such that the help menu is below the close context menu (which should have been the bottom menu as far as most windowed program...
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form close and input validation
Published 03-14-2006 5:27 AM | jokiz
a guy from my first tech talk asked me if he can use ISupportInitialize for input validation . i told him that ISupportInitialize is used in batch initialization of the properties of a control, not for input validation. the particular scenario that he...
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phishing with yahoo
Published 03-14-2006 2:40 AM | jokiz
i got an IM from a friend this afternoon telling me of this site: http://geocities.com/who_wants_my_picture/ (warning, don't supply your user/password) tried to access the site and saw the yahoo login page. immediately i realized that it was a phishing...
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