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September 2007 - Willem Meints

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  • Patterns and Practices

    I'ts been a busy week and I'm quite happy I can spend some time working with technology. Last week I spend most of my time training social skills, it was fun and I'm quite satisfied with the results. However being a developer I like building...
    Published 22-09-2007 18:52 by willemm
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  • Mapping split tables to one entity

    Introduction One of the things that happens a lot in databases but less in object oriented software is normalization. In databases we often split one logical entity into multiple entities to remove redundant data. However in our client that uses this...
    Published 15-09-2007 14:32 by willemm
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  • Blue screens in VPC 2007

    Gotta love a fresh challenge in the morning. This morning I booted up my VPC image and the first thing I got was a BSOD telling me UNKNOWN_TRAP_CAUSE... which means, welll euhm... It looks like Windows doesn't know. A reboot fixed it, but it's...
    Published 13-09-2007 9:39 by willemm

  • Using stored procedures with ADO.NET entity framework

    Introduction At Info Support we work with stored procedures in SQL 2000/2005 to access our data, this has a couple of advantages, like decoupling the interface from the actual table structure, reduce the number of errors in queries, etc. As you can imagine...
    Published 11-09-2007 21:29 by willemm
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  • Dilbert on Web 2.0

    Dilbert is one of my favorites, especially this one on web 2.0: http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070909.html I can relate to the comic, I've read a couple of blogs on web 2.0 and the opinions vary on what web 2.0 exactly is...
    Published 10-09-2007 8:48 by willemm

  • Building projects with MSBuild “Orcas”

    Last week I moved some code over to my "orcas" beta 2 installation and tried to compile it using MSBuild. At first it didn't go any further than trying to compile, since MSBuild lost its mind somewhere along the road, complaining about illegal paths in...
    Published 10-09-2007 8:38 by willemm

  • Silverlight 1.0 RTM

    Yay, Silverlight 1.0 is out. I'm probably not the first, but this is going to be fun nonetheless :)
    Published 06-09-2007 15:40 by willemm
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  • ADO.NET Entity framework

    Manuel notified me of the possibility to use the ADO.NET framework instead of my own custom solution for the data access layer of my opensource scheduling application. I must say I was a bit skeptical because I had tried it before and it didn't impress...
    Published 01-09-2007 15:54 by willemm
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