We just wrapped up Silicon Valley Code Camp. It was an awesome event. This year was our second time around the block so the preparation wasn’t quite as draining as last year. We did have a new dean (Timothy Woods) to work with at Foothill College and when we initially found that out, I was worried. What if he doesn’t want to do this? Well, turns out, that could not have further from the case. Tim was a stellar partner and everything that could go right did. The weather was perfect, lots of people chipped in for both planning as well as execution, and everything really came together. We had over 900 registered, 75 sessions, and about 400 on Saturday attending and 250 on Sunday.
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So, I’ve been preaching for a long time that it’s best to use the Using pattern when working with anything that implements IDisposable. That way, you don’t have to worry about calling Dispose, or calling Close. The framework will just do it for you. I’ve answered this question on the forums several times so I thought I’d past some code I’m doing right now for simple ado.net stuff. It’s actually code that is inside a business object that I hook up to an ObjectDataSource in asp.net 2.0.
The code is posted below. I think you’ll get the idea.
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I’m Speaking at Silicon Valley Code Camp on Silverlight
Sunday at 1:15PM, October 27th. Foothill College
http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com
This coming Sunday, October 27th at 1:15PM, I’m giving a presentation about a Silverlight application I developed for Microsoft and Leverage Software. It will be a pretty technical session on all the things I learned and the tricks I had to use to make things work. The session can be found here.
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Silicon Valley Code Camp Schedule Done!
(now, just to key it in)
Mike Van Riper and I just spend several hours working through all possible issues to make the perfect schedule for
Silicon Valley Code Camp. Here it is.
OK, you can’t read it? we should have it up on the web site by Tuesday. Look for it there.
(Using Membership ObjectDataSource From MSDN Article)
I’m doing a project where I have lots of DropDownList’s on a page and want a simple way to set the initial values based on some known value. The DropDownLists are retrieved using ObjectDataSource but I don’t want the first value displayed. I wrestled some with how to do this using page_load or page_prerender but didn’t come up with good solutions. I did finally
decide that programming the databound event of the dropdownlist was probably the best way to go.
The solution is pasted below. The MembershipUtilities.MembershipODS c# code can be downloaded from MSDN or on my web site at the following location.
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