So, if you run a notebook with different monitor configurations, you may find yourself unable to find a program you launched to a different monitor previously.  Happened to me with NotePad++ today.  So, in Vista, you would right click on the taskbar program, choose move, then use the arrow keys to [...]

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  So, sometimes I feel like “how did I get myself here”.  If you pushed some buttons and didn’t realize you did something, you may find your directory view looks like the following: Well, to clear it, all you have to do is put your cursor at the very bottom of [...]

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  I’ve finally moved my Lenovo W500 over to Windows 7 RC.  What motivated me was my wireless networking was getting really really unstable.  Sometimes it would connect, other times it would not, and it never seemed to want to work at starbucks anymore. So, here I am, and so far, vary happy.  [...]

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  So, you have an enum defined as follows: public enum CompanyAddressType { Unknown = 0, Primary = 1, Warehouse = 2, [...]

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  We’ve built a data access layer on top of LINQ2SQL for dynamically building the layer we call for data access.  It’s convenient because we pass in a query object as a parameter that has a bunch of nullable variables in it.  Here is kind of what it looks like: [...]

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  Last night, I had the honor of having dinner with three other VSLive speakers including Jim Wooley, one of the authors of the awesome book on LINQ titled LINQ in Action.  Jim is a wealth of knowledge as well as very entertaining.  He had an interesting analogy for what using try/catch statements to [...]

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  Today was my first time doing 2 presentations during the same day at a professional conference (VSLive, Las Vegas).  Both sessions were fun to present and hopefully the audience got as much out of it as I did.  Lots of great questions, several twitter posts and best of all, they both finished on [...]

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  So, I’ve been on kind of a rant lately about how slow LINQ2SQL is if you don’t compile your queries before executing them.  To be fair, if you are doing Windows Forms Programming, WPF or Silverlight it really does not have much impact.  The reason is that a very complex LINQ query may [...]

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  I’ve been doing a lot of LINQ2SQL lately and just in case I have not said it loud enough how enthusiastic I am about LINQPAD written by Joseph Albahari.  I have the $19 version which has intellisense, but even without, it would be totally awesome. Today, I discovered you can actually put [...]

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  So, I recently blogged about the huge penalty for not compiling your LINQ2SQL.  This problem is so big that it occurred to us that maybe all of LINQ has the problem.  So, time for a simple test.  Below is a very simple program that basically generates a list of Ids.  In one case, [...]

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  So, this is very straight forward, but I sometimes forget it.  I figure I’ll do a short blog post on it so next time I search for it, I’ll probably hit my own blog post. So, say you have a list of objects as follows: public partial class CompanyAddressResult : ResultBase [...]

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  So, I’ve struggled some with this and did not have much help with searching.  Here is the problem. You have a declaration that looks like this: 1: public partial class CompanyQuery { [...]

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  Last night, I gave a 90 minute presentation on how to use ExtJS with ASP.NET serving up the data at the San Francisco Microsoft Office to what seemed to be between 50 and 100 people.  I started out with just a basic overview of ExtJS, starting with a hello world app, then, finally [...]

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  Last week, we had our 5th Meetup of the San Francisco ExtJS Meetup Group at ClickTime.  Xiaohui Chen and I both presented different aspects of some new features in ExtJS V3. Specifically, I showed you to use the new Proxy Writer to do restful CRUD operations from ExtJS to Asp.Net with ease, and [...]

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  For the past couple years, I’ve had the T-Mobile Dash Windows Mobile phone.  It’s been a nice phone but not great.  It’s broken a couple times, crashes too often, requires me to carry an extra battery around just to get through the day and gives me an inadequate browsing experience based on the [...]

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  At tonight’s meet up, we will be having several short presentations on the new features in ExtJS version 3.0.  For my short presentation, I will be showing how to build a simple asp.net application that lets you Create, Update, Delete and Edit Membership data using the ASP.NET built in membership providers.  I will [...]

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In this article, it is shown how important it can be to use the CompileQuery class when using LINQ to SQL. Doing a simple query in LINQ to SQL verses ADO.NET is shown to run 37 times slower without taking advantage of the Compile feature in LINQ to SQL. If you are doing the same query over and over in LINQ to SQL, this is a no brainer. I’m surprised I did not know this myself previously.

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  Programmatically setting JavaScript into an ASP.NET page is very straight forward when you do it in code.  That is, in my case, I simply put it in the Page_Load event of the page and have it load from there.  I’m currently working on an ExtJS project that requires me to show some details [...]

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  My guess is 75 people showed up at Dolores Labs last night for this meetup.  It lasted about two hours and had about 6 great presentations.  Douglas Crockford kicked it off with a discussion on upcoming security models around new versions of JavaScript followed by several other presentations that included a Google engineer [...]

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  Come hear about how to see ExtJS integrated with ASP.NET for awesome Membership and Profile Management!  I will speaking at the Microsoft Office at a meeting of Bay.Net Users Group. http://www.baynetug.org/DesktopModules/DetailXEvents.aspx?ItemID=378&mid=49 ASP.NET: Membership with Profile and High Performance ExtJS JavaScript Interface When:  Wednesday, 5/20/2009 at 6:30 PM [...]

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