Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

In one of my projects I use a series of asynchronous web service calls from a console app running as a scheduled job to create XML data files from a Sharepoint Server document library through the Microsoft OLEDB Provider for Internet Publishing (MSDAIPP).... [More]

I have been a blog consumer but not a producer for the last few weeks.  Blogs have been in my life for about 6 months, I guess, and I've been blogging for about 4 months.  Lately I've been getting weighed down trying to cover my personal OPML blogscape wh... [More]

I watched a rather disturbing NOW with Bill Moyers episode on PBS tonight addressing the topic of exporting service-oriented jobs along with DEVELOPER jobs to places like India.  One figure mentioned was an annual salary comparison of an average $66,000 f... [More]

I am currently a serious student of the Scott Watermasysk School of Rocking Web Application Design.  I am working with his .TEXT framework and customizing it to meet specific needs of my company.  (More on that when the customization is complete... [More]

The home page of a site I'm working on consists of menu block controls. (Screenshot in earlier post here.) All menu items are derived from a single XML file; the menu block headers from another. I had the opportunity to expand the functionality of the ho... [More]

With a looming virus attack being reported in the media, I spent Friday AM updating my primary work PC running Windows 2000 server, which is also the only computer on my home office network attached to the Internet.  I installed Windows 2000 SP4 and being... [More]

I've completed my playing with the MS Data Access Application Block for now.  Its time to start saving time and writing cleaner code with it now.  Here is a ZIP containing a webform and codebehind containing calls to Sqlhelper for binding to a grid.  The ... [More]

I was reading Jim Edelen's post on running Sharepoint on a notebook and freeing up memory and decided to see where my 512MB of memory was being spent at the moment.  I went through and shut down non-essential services like SQL Server and SQL Server Agent ... [More]

In response to an earlier post on using msdab v2.0 with vs.net 1.0, here is the requested port I made to VS.NET 1.0 and have been working without problem.  I am not yet completely through testing it (and note from another post that I changed SqlHelper.cs ... [More]

I always enjoy Roy Osherove's writings on ADO.NET and other .NET subjects and so I studied his Filling Typed datasets posts which included a reported DAB bug, originally reported by Mark Brown on the dotnetjunkies blog site. The bug, as excellently descri... [More]