April 2008 - Derik Whittaker - Devlicio.us

Multi-Column Grouping with Linq2Sql

Today as I was diving further into my Linq2Sql Odyssey I ran into a need to do grouping on data. Bud not just single column grouping, I needed to group by multiple columns from multiple tables. Because it took me a few minutes to get right...

Published 04-30-2008 7:32 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: .Net IDE, HowTo, Linq

Nice side affect of Automatic Properties

Today it dawned on me another nice little side affect of automatic properties. I was creating an interface today that ONLY had properties and when I was done I needed to create the concrete object that implemented said interface. All I had to do...

Published 04-29-2008 1:17 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: .Net

Heading out to the Iowa Code Camp

Hey all, that time as come again where I will be venturing out into the wild to spew my knowledge (or lack there of). This time I am heading up to the Iowa Code Camp on the 3rd. Should be a great time. The topic for my session is: Taking your tests to...

Published 04-25-2008 1:29 PM by Derik Whittaker

Linq2Sql - Explicit Construction of Entity Exception

Gotta say, I am kinda flustered right now. Today I was trying to perform what I thought to be a pretty straight forward Linq2Sql query, but turns out it was not. Overview I have a query that joins a few tables together to get some data, but in place...

Published 04-25-2008 10:38 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Linq

Chicago Alt.Net meeting review for April 23rd

Last nights meeting was a great success. It was the type of meeting that every new users group needs to have. It was our 'who are we, and what do we wish to accomplish' here meeting. Our goal for the evening was 2 fold. Setup...

Published 04-24-2008 7:44 AM by Derik Whittaker

[Book Review] Brownfield Application Development - upcoming book from Manning Publications

A few weeks ago I had the chance to review an forthcoming book that from Manning Publications that is being co-written by Kyle Baley and Donald Belcham. The focus of this book is to help developers navigate the choppy waters of Brownfield development...

Published 04-24-2008 5:43 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Book Review

Are you going the way of the Dinosaur???

What are you doing to keep your skills current? Do you learn new technologies? Do you learn new tools? Do you learn new languages? If you did not answer yes to at least 1 of the 3 questions above, I have one last question to ask...

Published 04-24-2008 5:20 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Opinion, Featured

ReSharper 4.0, I love you but it may be time we break up

I have been a loyal and faithful user of ReSharper for the past few years, and am generally happy with the product. But this 4.0 EAP is starting to kill our relationship. I know that you are still in 'beta' but come one, what is taking...

Published 04-22-2008 9:01 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development Tools, Featured

[Book Review] Hello Silverlight - Upcoming book from Manning Publications

Today I just finished the early review for a yet to be released book form Manning Press called 'Hello Silverlight (there is no link available on their site). As the title says the focus of this book in Silverlight 2. But unlike many Silverlight...

Published 04-21-2008 5:28 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Book Review

ANN: Chicago Alt.Net meeting on April 23rd

All, the Chicago Alt.net group will be having our next meeting next Wednesday at 6pm. Location: 6PM Absolute Solutions (downtown location) 203 N. LaSalle, M18 Chicago, IL 60601 Out topic of this meeting is going to be about planning our upcoming Code...

Published 04-16-2008 7:23 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Chicago Alt.Net

Rhino Mocks and mocking Out/Ref params

I thought I would share a little nugget of greatness with RhinoMocks . Today I was in the process of mocking out a webservice call for an application I was working on. But the method I wanted to mock took a out parameter in its signature. ...

Published 04-16-2008 1:25 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Rhino Mocks, HowTo

Re: 3 Geeks in an Elevator -- My take

Bil Simser has a funny post that I thought I would respond to. My 2 people. JDN (John) of the Alt.net list and Scott Bellware. This would be great. I am sure for the first 24+ hours it would be a cynical bitchfest and blood would be...

Published 04-16-2008 9:49 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Humor

Wow, 250 posts just flew right by

I did not even notice that my post from yesterday was my 250th here at Devlicio.us. Who would have thunk that I would that much useless stuff to share with the world. It has been a blast, and here is to another 250 more posts. That's right...

Published 04-16-2008 8:15 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Humor

How to have a Single Config File for multiple developers

In my last post I talked about how you can share a single config file among multiple project in a solution. One of the feedback comments I got was how to have a single config file for multiple developers or even multiple environments. So,...

Published 04-16-2008 8:13 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, .Net IDE, .Net, HowTo

How to share configuration files between projects

Sharing configuration files between multiple projects in Visual Studio is a simple task, but it is not intuitive in how it is done. In fact, until recently I did not know how to do it via the IDE, I would always hand edit the .sln file to enable...

Published 04-15-2008 7:47 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development Tools, .Net IDE, HowTo, Featured

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