Derik Whittaker

Switch Statements with Enums best practice

Over the years I have come to the conclusion when working with switch statements that switches on enum values, a DEFAULT block MUST be required. Not only should it be required, I think it should throw a developer exception. *** NOTE *** My stance on this...

Published 06-26-2007 7:08 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, Methodology, .Net, Opinion, Best Practice

Link building 101 with ASP.Net MVC

Because I was stumped on the various ways to build links (hyperlinks)with the new MVC framework, I thought I would save others the pain that I went through and show the various ways to build links. You can also get this information by watching Scott Hanselman's...

Published 03-06-2008 7:34 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Best Practice, ASP.Net MVC

Getting Lazy with System.Lazy

One of the pretty cool new nuggets inside the .Net 4.0 framework is System.Lazy and System.Lazy<T> . What System.Lazy brings to the table is a way to create objects which may need to perform intensive operations and defer the execution of...

Published 05-19-2010 5:51 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: .Net, HowTo

Getting data from a REST service using C#

As REST services are becoming more and more common the need is arising to be able to retrieve data to them via .Net. Now normally when you want to retrieve data from a web resource you commonly would do so using a web service. And when you...

Published 02-15-2009 2:32 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: .Net, HowTo

Setting MaxItemsInObjectGraph for WCF, there has to be a better way

Toady we ran into an issue where the serialization graph of our objects exceeded the default max limits (yea I know, I need to resolve this as my root issue, but one step at a time). When I used the WcfTestClient to test for a working solution for...

Published 05-04-2010 1:06 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: HowTo, WCF

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

MOSS Development: Getting your environment up and running.

I thought I would post a quick 'Getting-Started' guide for MOSS development. This post comes from my experience learning how to develop for MOSS. This post is a quick listing of what is needed to get your environment up and running. As you may...

Published 09-22-2007 4:29 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, .Net, asp.net, HowTo, SharePoint

Hacking the GAC, How to enable standard directory browsing

Have you ever wanted to or needed to view the actual contents of the GAC? Not just what is in the GAC, but actually grab the assemblies that are there? I know I have. You may be asking WHY did you want to grab an assembly that is in the GAC. 2 reasons...

Published 08-30-2007 7:04 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, Fun Code, HowTo

Referencing 2.0 Web Services (asmx) in Visual Studio 2008

Recently I needed to add a reference to a classic (.Net 2.0) web service inside a new project that was being created via Visual Studio 2008. Now, I have not done a lot of work with WebServices in the past 6-9 months, but thought it would be cake. Please...

Published 07-21-2008 12:55 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: HowTo

Sorting List's the .Net 3.5 Way

This post is another in the recent string of How-to's. But it is just so hard to resist. .Net 3.5 has so many cool features, it is just fun to explore them all. Ok, so here is the issue we are going to solve today. We have a list of entities and we...

Published 03-28-2008 9:09 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, .Net, Opinion, HowTo, Linq, Lambda

Working with Live Tiles in WP7 Mango–Creating, Updating and Deleting them

***** UPDATE ***** If you would like to see a video on this topic check out Episode 195 @ Dimecasts.Net ******************* When Windows Phone 7 was first announced one of its distinguishing features of the OS compared to the iPhone or the Android was...

Published 07-16-2011 2:24 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: XAML, Silverlight, WP7 Mango

Using Sharepoint's Web Services to QueryDocuments.

For the latest thing I am doing at work I need to be able to grab some data from Sharepoint. I have chosen to do this by consuming SPServices.asmx server that is available. Because I was not able to find a decent post on the net on how to use/consume...

Published 07-21-2007 9:30 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, .Net, HowTo, SharePoint

WSE 3.0 Support in Visual Studio 2008 -- HACK

***** DISCLAIMER - There may be a better way to do this (I hope there is), but I don't know of it. Please share if you know of it. ***** Today I ran into an interesting issue. We are going to create an API on our end to access the web...

Published 04-03-2008 3:05 PM by Derik Whittaker

Using FluentNhibernate to map composite keys for a table

In an attempt to provide full disclosure I am a complete NOOBIE when it comes to NHibernate. In fact I have only been using it for a few weeks or so. What this means is take everything I say in this post with a grain of salt cause there may be a...

Published 01-16-2009 4:10 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: HowTo, FluentNhibernate

Database Migrations–Picking a strategy and getting the ball rolling w/ RoundhousE

Anytime you use a relational database it is always a challenge to keep your changes in sync between your different environments. If you work with what I would call a typical setup you have your local database, your shared development database, your...

Published 06-13-2011 7:23 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, Development Tools, Database

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