Yesterday we had the VS 2005 C++ team at the dotned user group meeting. It was a good meeting and a good talk. Ronald Laeremans is somebody who can, and will, talk for hours. The C++ vision on .net is quite interesting, let me reproduce some of the things I learned. To me the C++ language has always been you had to learn to live with, never did...

SQl reporting services is bound to a SQL-server installation. You can set up reporting services on another machine, fi for development , but the setup has some flaws. It took me some blogreading and guesswork to get it done. The setup needs to do some fiddling in the sql instance (create / alter a db). It needs the credentials of a...

Brendan as wandering if it would make sense to do a multilingual Codebetter site using Babelfish. As a test he created a link to a Babelfish translated Dutch version of the CB home page. Was it any good ? It was hilarious ! Not only the code went funny, the result of translating a product name can be quite funny to. The quality of the text...

For quite some time I am a very content user of an external Maxtor USB drive. This week it was joined a Maxtor "shared storage drive". With a price of an euro a gigabyte I couldn't leave it on the shelf. The maxtor site, the documentation and the utilities were pretty vague. It's very easy to set up by the average nitwit, but when you're a geek...

I am a rookie when it comes to regular expressions but learned one thing which I want to share with you. With a regular expression you can do very sophisticated matching of string patterns. The content of a regullar expression is a science on itself. The .net framework makes evaluating the expression quite simple. string Pat =...

The coming meeting of the Dutch user group DotNed is monday may 2nd. It will be a special one. Held in the new Microsoft Technology Center in Barneveld (You're not supposed to know that untill you have registered). Speakers will be Ronald Laeremans, Nikola Dudar, Ray Stephenson and Scott Currie from the MS C++ team and the topic will be VS...

Just as curious as everybody else I went for for the VS 2005 beta. Had to take some bumps to get it up and running, these are some things I learned: You're not the only one trying to download it. Download speed varies dramatically. Starts at 400/500 K, soon drops to a fraction of that and eventually the stream will stop. In the MSDN downloader...

 In a recent post I wrote some things on a datagrid and what to do over roundtrips. In a comment  John asked me what I did with the data over the roundtrips. He mentions 4 ways to store it. I always use the first one: a full reread from the DB on every roundtrip. This is my situation: The data might be changed on the next roundtrip...

When it comes to building web applications ASP.NET 2.0 will make life a lot easier. The key to success in building good web apps with ASP 1.x lies in understanding the page lifecycle. Which still has a lot of secrets and surprises. In this post I will investigate it once again and cover some of my new findings. The page life-cycle On each...

A database has a storedproc with some parameters. I don't know exactly what it does, I don't want to know, I don't have to know, it's not under my management. But my app does have a connection to it and has to call to stored proc. This is how it does that : SqlCommand berekenUrenverdeling = new SqlCommand("EXEC dbo.SP_STUDOND_URVRD_BEREKEN...

Last thursday we had our Northern “MSDN-Technet” briefings. A day of sessions for developers and IT-pros, organized by MS and a good place to meet fellow developers. Some things had changed. The event used to be decorated with political hyper-correct banners bearing portraits of afro-asian-caucasian people in conversation. The new banners...

If SQL had known attributes I should have decorated my Like query with [AirCode]. Several comments questioned wheter and how it was vulnerable to a sql-injection attack. Well, the aircode version is. The original is harder to break. The vulnerable one : orgSql = "SELECT id, Info FROM Table1";sqlDataAdapterBuildSql.SelectCommand.CommandText =...

Trying to be smart I ran into this. In an app the user is looking for some person, the query has some parameters to help her. SELECT Naam, Afkorting FROM  dbo.Persoon WHERE (Naam LIKE @Param1) AND (Functie LIKE @Param2) To the parameter values is appended the % character.  The query will return all rows which start with the...

I had to miss the codeworse april fools joke. Spent the day doing my presentation on objectdatasources with VS 2005. On beforehand my main concern was setting up the hardware. Had to run VS 2005 from an external hard disk in 300Mb of memory. The sql server was running on another notebook. All was tied together with my old, but o so reliable...

This is my third post with this title. What started as quick command line fix has grown into something huge, including top numbers of hits and comments here on Codebetter. So it's worth continuing. An asp.net 1.1 installation on IIS can get broken resulting in the error message in the title. When you're lucky a fix can be done in a couple of...