Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

I sling a lot of data in and out of my Jobs Management Application and this afternoon's slinging consisted of Job Estimate data from Microsoft Access.  The process occurs through a Community Server background task and consists of three steps.  1... [More]

We're close on Code Camp 9.  Real close.  Don't tarry, don't delay, register and book your room in Watham, Massachusetts for Friday and Saturday night, April 4th and 5th, to catch all of the exciting Code Camp 9 action on April 5th and 6th! Heck... [More]

Developers new to Community Server may rightly view it as a rather odd duck, with the Chameleon control model falling into that realm of feathered obfuscation.  Yet a rather seemingly insignificant control I wrote recently might help explain Chameleo... [More]

I blogged about my CodeSmith project named CSTiers when it was born.   I've been using it quite a bit to generate custom Chameleon controls, Provider classes, and business objects.  This weekend I added templates to generate custom Configur... [More]

Funny, I feel like I'm still in Christmas and New Years holiday mode and that the grind hasn't really kicked into gear yet.  To help bring me back into the workabilly flow I'll write this holiday season 2007 recap to remind myself that the grind has ... [More]

The term Composite CodeSmith Template refers to generating code across several tiers of an application, writing code for multiple classes in a single template, somewhat of a cross between a single template and a CodeSmith Project.  I don't ... [More]

I created a CodeSmith template the other day to generate a Data Provider method that returns a single value from a query.  It's not a method I'll use a lot since if retrieving data I'm usually populating an object, but still a task I wanted to automa... [More]

A new CodeSmith Project enters the world and its called CSTiers, named after the excellent .netTiers project. While .netTiers creates a complete website, CSTiers will create a DBVT Community Server Visual Studio customization project framework. Almost eve... [More]

I wanted to add a few Stylin posts to my new Stylin Mirrored Blog tonight, but didn't want to deal with entering the posts from scratch.  They each have the same format after all: some text to describe the page, a thumbnail that links to a full-size ... [More]

I was creating a SQL Server 2005 table today in SQL Server Management Studio and went to the bottom pane to create my Identity field like I always do.  I scrolled down, scrolled some more, and selected "yes" from the dropdown to confirm it was indeed... [More]