Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category

What’s on your deskop?

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Whether using Windows, Linux, or Mac, we all tend to customize our desktop and use our favorite tools. Have you ever been curious about what other people use? Ever wonder what life saver you’re missing that someone else uses daily? Well, here are a few tools that I use every day.

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Why mv.NET - Part 2

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Almost two years ago I wrote a blog entry titled "Why mv.NET?" But every couple of days we still see the same question phrased differently: "How do I connect to/from MV?" My immediate response is still to include mv.NET in your list of options. Here is an explanation why.

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ASP.NET and AJAX tips

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

I found a couple articles regarding performance and scalability for ASP.NET, and ASP.NET with AJAX. I think these are a good read for anyone doing development with these tools.

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Website Design - Establish a consistent theme

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

For developers who use ASP.NET, DesignBais, and other tools, it’s important to design the look and feel of a website before too much front-end work is done.

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Cross-MV development made easy…er

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

I just finished setting up the latest mv.NET v3.5.1.2 and used the Data Manager to create simultaneous connections to multiple MV environments. I dunno if other people get as much of a kick out of this as I do but just the ability to do this tickles me.

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Application Virtualization Part 2

Friday, February 1st, 2008

The first note I wrote on this topic was back in May of 2006. A recent forum inquiry asked about the merits of VMware to host MV DBMS software. I thought I’d take the opportunity to post a follow-up to the original posting with an update of how I’m using virtualization today.

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Mine Field of Excel Development Tools - Part 6

Friday, December 28th, 2007

In Part 5 of this unintended series I provided complete details on how to create an Excel Automation Add-in using the COM Shim Wizard from Microsoft. It works for development, not for deployment. I’ve found that in the deployment system some registry keys are missing.

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Stumped again - Strongly Typed Datasets from XML Schema

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

I’ll tell you when I do stuff that’s cool, and when I do stuff that doesn’t quite work at all. Looks like I’m stuck on another issue with .NET. I’ll have to do something cool just to make up for all the bad news lately.

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Will .NET code run on FireFox?

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

This is a good question posed in an MV forum. I think this question and answer are good for a more general audience so I’m responding here.

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Mine Field of Excel Development Tools - Part 5

Monday, November 26th, 2007

It’s time to call it quits for now. Yup, I give up. I’ve killed an entire week on this, well over 100 hours. I have clients that need attention and this project isn’t earning its keep. The code is working great on development systems but I can’t get it to work properly on a non-development workstation. I’m am closing this for now with a definitive current tutorial which works to some extent - it doesn’t work entirely but the data is much more accurate than old blog and forum entries you’ll find out there. Maybe someone from Microsoft can correct the errors - or look at my systems with me so that we can make this work and document it for everyone!

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