David.Yancey

Dirty Code!!!

2008-12-11T05:16:02Z

If 4 letter words immediately come to mind when you do a code review…then you might have dirty code. If you quince each time a new feature is requested to be added to your existing library of code…then you might have dirty code. If the amount of time it takes to research a bug is inversely proportional [...]...(read more)

Refactoring: Getting started is the hard part

2008-11-25T06:50:59Z

Just the thought of ‘refactoring’ can be daunting to a programmer. Martin Fowler defines ‘refactoring’ as: Refactoring is a disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal structure without changing its external behavior. Its heart is a series of small behavior preserving transformations. Each transformation (called a ‘refactoring’) does little, but a sequence [...]...(read more)

Agile and the .NET Community

2008-11-19T05:08:18Z

Why does it seem that the .NET Community isn’t very active in the Agile community? I know that there are Agile practitioners in various .NET shops however, it seems that the overall representation is very minimal. Is it because of a lack of understanding of the Agile methodologies? Or is there a lack of support [...]...(read more)

Taking a look at Dynamic Data

2008-04-25T12:12:53Z

One of the best things about being a programmer is new technologies, taking a look at exciting new approaches to everyday tasks. The .NET world is continually growing, in fact it was only 6-months ago that the 3.5 Framework was released giving you new tools such as LINQ, WPF, and Silverlight. Now comes ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview and you can add to the list Dynamic Data Controls. Dynamic Data Controls will enable you to build data driven website's that will work against a...(read more)

Using Provider Model with Unit Testing

2008-03-24T14:15:00Z

We are going to look at the Provider model and Offloader/Worker model and how we use this approach for our Test Driven Development (TDD) and Unit Testing. For this Demo we will be using the Northwind Database, and developing this in VB. To start off we need to set up 3 projects in the same solution: TCNorthwindClass: This is were we will place our class files for the BLL, DAL, and Interface. TCNorthwindWeb: For this demo we will be creating a webservice. TCNorthwindTest: For our Unit Tests. Now lets...(read more)

.NET 2.0 upgrade to 3.5 bug with LINQ

2008-02-21T20:06:00Z

Mark Richman has found a solution to a bug when upgrading a .NET 2.0 Compiled site to .NET 3.5 and using LINQ. Check it out http://markrichman.com/post/Visual-Studio-2008-Bug-Upgrading-web-site-from-Visual-Studio-2005-compiler-error-CS1519.aspx Enjoy...(read more)

XMLSerializer in C#

2008-02-08T19:27:00Z

A few days ago I was asked to do a version of my XMLSerializer post in C#. Well it was more like a week or two ago but either way here it is. For explanation on what I'm doing in the code please refer back to my original post. http://weblogs.asp.net/davidyancey/archive/2008/01/23/writing-xml-with-xmlserializer.aspx Download...(read more)

Create a RSS Reader in .NET 3.5 using XLINQ

2008-01-24T01:18:00Z

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 are finally out and with it we have some new "toys" to look at. Today we are going to look at XLINQ and the new ListView control while we build a new RSS Reader. Before we get started I want to take a brief at LINQ. LINQ (Language Integrated Query) defines a set of operators used to query, filter, and project data. While the data must be encapsulated as an object, its source can be an array, enumerable class, XML, relational database, or any third party data...(read more)

Create a customized RSS Reader for your site

2008-01-24T01:16:00Z

RSS definition From Wikipedia "RSS (formally "RDF Site Summary", known colloquially as "Really Simple Syndication") is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts . An RSS document, which is called a "feed", "web feed", or "channel", contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text. RSS makes it possible for people to keep up with their...(read more)

Building a TreeView of your Directory Structure using XML, WebServices, and Delegates

2008-01-24T01:15:17Z

TreeViews provide a great way for displaying a hierarchal view of a website, directory, company, and the list goes on. You can build a TreeView by binding it to a datasource, or by manually adding the nodes. Today we are going to look at building a TreeView of a directory structure for a website. To do this we are going to create a WebService that utilizes Delegates to traverse the directory and return an XMLDocument to our web page which will then be bound to our TreeView. First...(read more)

Create a Who's Online using .NET's Membership Provider!

2008-01-24T01:11:00Z

Developing and maintaining a community website can sometimes be a daunting task. A great deal of thought, and planning needs to go into creating content for your community to view, experience, and interact with. One fun piece that you will find on a number of community webistes is a "Who's Online". This is just a little bit of content that tells you how many registered users you have, how many registered users are online, how many guests are online, and the usernames of the registered...(read more)

Pushing Data between Servers: XML, Webservices, and SQL

2008-01-24T01:07:48Z

For the past few weeks we've been looking at utilizing XML to work with DATA from our SQL Server. We've talked about building a custom XML document with XMLSerializer , Using the XML Datatype built in SQL 2005, and finally using OPENXML to insert records into our Database. Today we are going to see how we can use each of those tools to solve a common issue for businesses, which is how to push data between different servers located on different networks. In this scenario...(read more)

Writing XML with XMLSerializer.

2008-01-24T01:02:00Z

The XMLSerializer: Recently a friend of mine and I were discussing the best way to serialize a Dataset to XML while being able to control the structure of the XML. With a dataset we could easily use the dataset.WriteToXml method to write the dataset to XML. However the only control we have in the structure of the XML with this method is through our dataset and how we load it. Another option is to Loop through our Dataset and write it out to XML utilizing the XMLWriter giving us full control over...(read more)

First Post a Thanks!

2008-01-23T18:41:00Z

I would like to thank Joe S and the ASP.Net team for setting this blog up for me. This will be my new home for blogging. Over the next few days I will be uploading my blog entries from http://geebs.proessent.com and then begin with new entries. David Yancey (aka Geebs)...(read more)

Pushing Data between servers with XML and Webservices

2007-10-18T12:04:57Z