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Dirty Code!!!

It's a .NET Life — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:16:02 GMT

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...(read more)

Refactoring: Getting started is the hard part

It's a .NET Life — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:50:59 GMT

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...(read more)

Agile and the .NET Community

It's a .NET Life — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:08:18 GMT

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...(read more)

Taking a look at Dynamic Data

David Yancey (aka Geebs) — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:12:53 GMT

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...(read more)

Using Provider Model with Unit Testing

David Yancey (aka Geebs) — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:15:00 GMT

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...(read more)

.NET 2.0 upgrade to 3.5 bug with LINQ

David Yancey (aka Geebs) — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:06:00 GMT

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#

David Yancey (aka Geebs) — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:27:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Create a RSS Reader in .NET 3.5 using XLINQ

David Yancey (aka Geebs) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:18:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Create a customized RSS Reader for your site

David Yancey (aka Geebs) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:16:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

David Yancey (aka Geebs) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:15:17 GMT

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...(read more)

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

David Yancey (aka Geebs) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:11:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Pushing Data between Servers: XML, Webservices, and SQL

David Yancey (aka Geebs) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:07:48 GMT

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...(read more)

Writing XML with XMLSerializer.

David Yancey (aka Geebs) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:02:00 GMT

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...(read more)

First Post a Thanks!

David Yancey (aka Geebs) — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:41:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Pushing Data between servers with XML and Webservices

David Yancey — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:04:57 GMT