After quite a long time there is a small update on the Google DataTable .NET Wrapper library. For those who are new to the library please check the two previous posts: How to use the Google DataTable .Net Wrapper Library What’s new in Google DataTable .NET Wrapper v3.0.0 What is new? First of all I would like to thank Tom Ziesmer who has substantially contributed [... read more]
Only few years ago I was not such a big fan of Object-Relational mapping tools (ORM), but now I have to admit that when starting a new project I’m always thinking whether it makes sense to use it or not. Compared to “traditional” coding techniques, Object-Relational mapping often reduces the amount of code that needs to be written, but I would add as well that [... read more]
Recently I have participated to a couple of discussions about whether the triggers or stored procedures should be used or not in a “real” project, so I decided to write this post to express my point of view. This said, I warn you, there is no a “right” answer, but most probably a “pro” and “cons” about anything written in this post. An old problem [... read more]
If you, like me, are using Subversion as your primary Version System and want to embed the SVN revision number directly in the assembly, but don’t know how, this post will try to explain it. What do you need? Before proceeding any further, you would need to download the following two packages (free!) MSBuild Community Tasks Subversion 1.7.8 (Windows 64/32-bit) I assume that you are [... read more]
Since 2001 Syncfusion provides the broadest range of enterprise-class software components and tools for the Microsoft .NET platform, so it’s not a surprise that as a Software Consultant several times in my working career I had to deal with their libraries and components which usually were reliable, good quality and easy to use. That said, this blog post is not about their components, as there [... read more]
When exposing a WCF service and hosting it on IIS6, most probably you are going to get the error shown in the image below, where the address of the WSDL location is not properly exposed to the end clients. This post is specifically concentrating to the solution of the problem in case the HTTPS protocol is used, as it has it’s own specific problems. As [... read more]
Recently I started working on my side-hobby-project on the linktotweet.com web site, and one of the functionality I want to offer to site members is the possibility to track the statistics, and more precisely the location of their visitors. In other words, I need to translate the IP address to an actual location. While this is almost a trivial task for whoever is using the [... read more]
Google DataTable .NET Wrapper library got its third version (v3.0.0). In this post I will highlight the changes. For basic information about the library check a previous post of how to use the Google DataTable .Net Wrapper Library To download or consult the source code please visit the project’s CodePlex page or install directly from Visual Studio by using Nuget PM> Install-Package Google.DataTable.Net.Wrapper Custom object properties [... read more]
In the previous post I’ve described how to use the library and what are the main characteristics. For sure there is more to come and follow up, so stay tuned. In this post, I would like to describe the big performance improvements made in the meantime, as I was not fully happy with the serialization performance in the first version. As I have just submitted a [... read more]
As I have just published the Google DataTable .Net Wrapper project on CodePlex, the following post intends to be a quick introduction on the rationale on why this project has been created and its implementation. Quick Project Background While working on the implementation of the www.linktotweet.com web site, which is one of my side projects, I had to choose a way of displaying charts in [... read more]
In the last few days I was intensively working with MsBuild, as I had to automate the building and deployment of 3 projects to a large amount of environments. In order to achieve this, an obvious choice was to use the MsBuild, which in my opinion is a great framework that perfectly fits with the .NET world. Obviously there is a learning curve, but once [... read more]
This is the second post of the series about how to load dynamically external content to a html page by using jQuery AJAX capabilities. If you want to know how to use the load() method please check the previous post. There are mainly 4 ways of how jQuery library enables the AJAX requests, and this article covers the second one in the list. using the [... read more]
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