April 2004 - Posts

nUnit.org and Test Driven Development
26 April 04 11:28 PM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

I attended my second Tulsa .Net Users Group meeting tonight. BJ Pohl gave a very good presentation on nUnit and Test Driven Development . It was definitely a good meeting! It made me really start researching the various development methodologies. I'll Read More...

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Enterprise Web Solutions with ASP.Net
16 April 04 08:39 PM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

I attended a training class on developing Enterprise Web Solutions with ASP.Net on 4/13/2004. The instructor was Keith Nicholson from developerLabs.net and he's also the President of the Oklahoma City .Net Users Group . The only new subjects covered, Read More...

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I Have Only One Major Complaint with .Net! Windows95 Support!
16 April 04 08:42 PM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

It reoccurred to me recently that I still have one major complaint with .Net! Even though the .Net Framework can be installed on WindowsCE, Windows 95 is not supported! The last major Windows Application project I was on, was designed for 900-1000 small Read More...

SharpZipLib Zipped XML File Upload with In Memory Unzip and SQL Import
08 April 04 10:34 PM | dwalker | 1 Comments   

SharpZipLib follow up: Today I was able to finally get a File Upload and In Memory Unzip working, without writing out to a file. (This way, I could upload a Zipped XML file via ASP.Net and Import it into the database without ever having to write to the Read More...

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Follow Up: DotNetNuke Skin and My Son Learns Chess
08 April 04 10:22 PM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

Ok, first, last night my son and I played Chess for over an hour, since he had spent the greater part of the day playing Chess Master 8000. While, he still needed a lot of coaching, he definitly is starting to get an understanding of the game. I'm sure Read More...

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SQL Server 2000 Bulk Import Best Possible Performance
08 April 04 10:21 PM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

Okay, as a follow up to my previous post, I will describe the methodology I finally had to settle for. SQL Server 2000's OPENXML method is limited to 8000 characters. But, ADO.NET's SQLCommand.CommandText has a large limit, supposedly around 2 meg. I Read More...

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First DotNetNuke Skin and my 6 Year Old learns to play Chess
07 April 04 09:19 PM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

Yesterday, I completed and tested my first DotNetNuke 2.0.3 skin. Of course, it being my first one, it was really simple and basic. I simply added the Corporate Intranet logo and link to the header of the Default Skin. I'll be doing more soon! My 6 year Read More...

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SQL Server 2000 Bulk Import Options (HA! What a Joke!)
01 April 04 06:00 PM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

Well, it sad to say that I am so disappointed in the SQL Server 2000 import options! I've spent the last couple of days on two different projects trying to improve the performance when importing data. The one that should be the easiest to achieve is taking Read More...

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