There are quite a number of posts concerning the SPGridView. The ones I would particularly recommend are those of Paul Robinson and Robert Fridén. However, most posts are only concerned with a particular feature of the SPGridView, like paging, sorting and menu fields. So I gathered it was a good idea to try and combine [...]

As of this morning I am officially allowed to call myself Microsoft Certified Professional Developer: Enterprise Application Developer! Needless to say, I am quite pleased with myself The question is, what will I do next? The MCPD upgrade exams for Visual Studio 2008 aren’t available in my area yet. I am considering Windows Workflow Foundation [...]

I’ve been playing around with Telerik’s OpenAccess ORM for a while now and I am slowly falling in love with it. Since I started using it I have literally not touched my SQL Server Management Studio once except to view the content of my tables. Why? Because OpenAccess supports forward mapping. I create my class [...]

I’ve been away for a while due to illness but I haven’t sat completely still. Last Friday I passed the 070-529: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 – Distributed Application Development exam. This completed my MCTS: .NET Framework 2.0 Distributed Applications. In addition to that, I passed the 070-526 TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 – Windows-Based Client Development [...]

Today I passed the 70-536 TS: Microsoft .NET Framework – Application Development Foundation exam. I’m happier about this one than I was about the Web-Based Client exam since I barely had time to study due to illness. So, this completes my MCTS: .NET Framework 2.0 Web Applications and gets me yet another step closer to my MCPD: [...]

Sometimes you discover a little gem that you just know you will be using over and over again. My latest discovery is implicit type conversion. Implicit type conversion basically allows you to convert any object to any other type. Note that not all conversions make sense. As an example, let’s assume the following Field and [...]

Today I passed the 70-528 TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 – Web-Based Client Development exam. One more step towards my MCPD: Enterprise Application Developer certification

In his excellent post on How SharePoint 2007 Renders Its Content Geoff McElhanon shows how to programmatically load SharePoint-based templates. The code he shows us is as follows: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 // Initialize template container with our custom template templateContainer = new TemplateContainer(); templateContainer.Template = SPControlTemplateManager.GetTemplateByName(RenderingTemplateId);   // Add the container [...]

I have been advertising Ruby and IronRuby at my company for a while now — or trying too. We are a .NET solution provider and sofar they’re not convinced that Ruby will be worth the effort of learning. Oh well. One of these days I will come up with the decisive argument. Thinking of that, [...]