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When you get more comfortable in the VS05 IDE, you will eventually have a need to move around and rename projects. VSIDE is very good at taking care of renaming your references. However, you may rename or move a subproject … Continue reading →

I’ve been heads down pushing very hard to get a medium sized project off the ground so my posts are backing up. But I had to post to let you guys know that something amazing and unbelievably wonderful may be … Continue reading →

I know I said I wouldn’t post until after I got settled, but I ran into yet another issue where a program was written to just get out the door or without a real architecture for some reason and now … Continue reading →

Sorry for the empty space. I’m transitioning to a new project and I’m trying to wrap up and train to get things ready to hand off. I have a ton of things (OOA, design, practices, frameworks and more!) to talk … Continue reading →

In training a developer new to object orientation, the discussion of encapsulation took a turn into composition. It all started with the developer attempting to make an object completely stand alone. When he was done, the object was so bloated … Continue reading →

There is an excellent article on MSDN on scaling SQL 2005. It’s well worth reading and reading again!Just in case you didn’t get the hidden enthusiasm, SQL SERVER 2005 ROCKS!

I know everyone already knows about this. (It’s two days old already 🙂The Express Suite of products will be FREE FOREVER!!! That’s right C#, VB.Net and the Web Express kits!!! All of them! But to make it completely clear, here … Continue reading →

Another OO lesson: When working with complex objects, try to view them in groups of behavior. Don’t view it as one gigantic object, split it into behaviorial groups. You can then take advantage of so called ‘lazy’ or ‘late’ instantiation. … Continue reading →

We have some great tools at our fingertips but not all customers can migrate to 2005 right now so we need to not only be able to develop in 2005 but support our existing customers in VS2003/SQL2000.One solution is to … Continue reading →

A few weeks ago, I had raised the question of the validity of OO development in the current technoligical environment. It was intended to make people think and remember why we architect apps the way we do (OOA, OOD, OOP). … Continue reading →