Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

To adopt the DAAB in everyday coding I went through the methods using both SQL statements and stored procs with various parameter requirements and in various return scenarios.  For instance, I wanted to use the int return value from SQLHelper.ExecuteNonQu... [More]

I spent more time with the DAAB today and got sidetracked on the SqlHelper Class being sealed, its methods static, and thus its constructor being private.  Like so: public sealed class SQLHelper{#region private utility methods & constructors // Since... [More]

On the subject of word processor utility, Robert Scoble says he uses his weblog tool about 200x more often than he uses Word and Outlook 10x more than he uses his weblog tool.  So I am embolded to again ask the question I asked before after a session on O... [More]

As Carl Prothman says, check it out!  The TechEd 2003 materials are online.  I went through Scott Guthrie's ASP.NET Tips and Tricks, and I must say that Microsoft Producer for Powerpoint with which these slideshows were presented is fantastic.  (I haven'... [More]

In my previous post I address tightening site security setup practices with the focus of restricting site folder access for new sites on a sweet new W2K3 production server.  I tightened folder access too much initially with .htm files loading fine, but ev... [More]

I have the good fortune of moving a few websites to a new W2K3 Server and am thinking about security. Specifically, security for a site folder access. IIS site setup is such a basic issue, and most of us have been doing it for years.  But I wanted to tigh... [More]

Every .NET developer has ftp'd new DLLs and a bunch of .ASPX files to add a new feature on a production site, maybe a feature that was several days or longer in development.  The time finally arrives to ftp the changes (usually late at night for me), and ... [More]

Asynchronous Web Service calls are a beautiful thing.  Web services I was executing from a console app I mentioned earlier were timing out and Asynchronous WS calls got me back in the pink.  I sketched out the basic framework in using an asynchronous call... [More]

I've been wrestling with relaying .NET STMP messages beyond our local domain since around 3:00 this afternoon.  It's now around 5:30.  I know, it's a Friday, but darn it, when something doesn't work on one of my servers--whether that particular something ... [More]

I broke-out the freetextbox.dll control from Scott Watermasysk's .TEXT framework for another project of mine.  (Is my understanding correct that this control was written on Linux?  It's a very sweet control!)  In testing I kept getting an error message "P... [More]