May 2006 - jokiz -

dbwizards experience

so i took a leave yesterday afternoon to take my very first MS certification exam. i went to GT tower first to get my books from a friend who just arrived from US, then proceeded to dbwizards located at 88 corporate center (i stayed there for six months...

Published Tue, May 05 2006 9:18 PM by jokiz

Filed under: non-Techie, lokal

Passed 70-316, jokiz is now an MCP

I just passed Exam 70-316 (Developing and Implementing Windows-based Applications with Microsoft Visual C# .NET and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET) yesterday. Now I am an MCP! Pwde na mag-abroad, wala lang...

Published Tue, May 05 2006 10:00 AM by jokiz

Filed under: techie

struggling with unit testing

we were through with the first iteration of our project and all i can say was it was a mess. although we were able to include much of the functionality for the one-month iteration, the tests took minutes to run since they are talking to external systems...

Published Sat, May 05 2006 1:56 AM by jokiz

Filed under: .NET, agile, tdd

ConditionalAttribute

We were discussing earlier about making some of the unit tests excluded with pre-processor directives (those tests which interacts with an external system which takes time) when my officemate brought out the ConditionalAttribute class. Basically you apply...

Published Fri, May 05 2006 11:25 PM by jokiz

Filed under: .NET, tips

DataTextField and DataValueField

Databinding for data controls uses reflection to iterate its datasource and obtain usually the value and the text to be displayed for the control. If you did not specify a DataTextField for the control, what will be displayed for each item will be their...

Published Fri, May 05 2006 7:43 PM by jokiz

Filed under: .NET, databinding

Visual Sourcesafe vs SVN, AnkhSVN, TortoiseSVN

I have worked with used Microsoft Visual Sourcesafe and now in my current company, we are using the SVN-Tortoise-Ankh combo. One thing i noticed though is that teammates really have to communicate. Although we are just two in the team, in order to prevent...

Published Fri, May 05 2006 2:19 PM by jokiz

Filed under: .NET, agile, version control, subversion

Do not call overridable methods in constructors

I noticed that Resharper 2.0 highlighted (meaning it is against a rule) a call to a virtual method in a constructor in one of my business objects. It gave me the following information information in msdn ( http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms182331...

Published Thu, May 05 2006 9:12 PM by jokiz

Filed under: .NET, design guidelines, resharper

automating contact number creation in outlook

as you know, globe's per second charging is still in effect if you use the 232 + 10 digit celfone number in your voice calls which is a pain, they could have used it as the default charging rate so subscribers don't have to alter their contacts mobile...

Published Thu, May 05 2006 1:49 PM by jokiz

Filed under: techie, outlook

Assert.Equal() vs Assert.IsTrue(obj1 == obj2)

It was the first time that i used NUnit and i figured out this morning when i was revising some of the tests that in some of them, i was still using Assert.IsTrue(objExpected == objActual) istead of Assert.AreEqual(objExpected, objActual). Although the...

Published Thu, May 05 2006 12:03 PM by jokiz

Filed under: .NET, tips, tdd

Authentication using LDAP

One of the requirements for our current application is to authenticate the users using their LDAP server. We were able to use it for authentication for our current setup. By the way, the NativeObject property of the DirectoryEntry class should be included...

Published Wed, May 05 2006 8:51 PM by jokiz

Filed under: .NET, security

Resharper 2.0 released

Jetbrains has just released Resharper 2.0, i just upgraded this morning and i was surprised that the find usage return results from the aspx/ascx files. still more things to evaluate about since i didn't try their beta release. http://www.jetbrains.com...

Published Wed, May 05 2006 4:56 PM by jokiz

Filed under: .NET, visual studio, resharper

George Shepherd's ASP.NET FAQ

george shepherd's windows forms FAQ ( http://www.syncfusion.com/faq/windowsforms ) is my primary resource on everything about windows forms. i was surprised this afternoon that he also has an asp.net version of the FAQ. http://www.syncfusion.com/FAQ/aspnet

Published Tue, May 05 2006 5:45 PM by jokiz

Filed under: .NET, tips, ASP.NET

tabbed windows in microsoft document explorer

due to my recent rant about the slow loading of the msdn2 online library, i was forced to install the accompanying msdn library of my standard edition of vs 2005. at least i will have an immediate reference for old API's which are still supported in the...

Published Mon, May 05 2006 1:04 PM by jokiz

Filed under: .NET

BasicDatePicker Control

in my quest yesterday to find a free datepicker control for our application, i bumped into BasicDatePicker . they have this lite version of their control ( http://www.basicdatepicker.com/BDPLite ) which is free. i immediately hook it up in our application...

Published Thu, May 05 2006 6:41 PM by jokiz

Filed under: .NET, controls, ASP.NET

using free controls/components

i have been using a number of free asp.net controls for our current project simple because i don't have to redo what the gurus have done and i still haven't finished the asp.net server controls book. i have chosen scott mitchell's menu for our project...

Published Thu, May 05 2006 1:16 PM by jokiz