Arjans blog

Clearing out the bookshelf

aeinbu — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:28:19 +0000

I spending this summer doing a lot of writing. But inspiration isn’t always a continuous flow. One of the things I did to get my mind of things was to look through books in the bookshelf. …and atop the bookshelf too, it seems. I’m allocated only about 1.5 meters (5 feet) of bookshelf for my [...]

Custom ASP.NET DataSource parameters

aeinbu — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:30:40 +0000

With ASP.NETs DataSource controls you can parameterize your query and have those parameters automatically fetched from one of a few standard sources. Those include getting a parameter value from the querystring, a form parameter, a control or from a users session variables, profile or cookies.

These parameter types enables us to build a lot of functionality [...]

Diving deeper into Windows Azure table storage

aeinbu — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:15:51 +0000

In this previous posts about Windows Azure Table Storage, I relied on the StorageClient project in the Azure SDK samples. This feels a bit strange, and raises the question: Am I expected to include references to sample projects and be using Microsoft.Samples.whatever namespaces in my future projects?

This raises a couple of questions about license, copyright, [...]

Files from the one-day ASP.NET course

aeinbu — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:24:27 +0000

You can download all the files used and created during my one-day ASP.NET course here. The zip file contains the slides (PDF), the databases and all the files used and created during the presentation.

I added a default.aspx page listing the samples, so hopefully it should be easy to find the demo you’re looking for.

Visual Studio 2008 [...]

Free one-day course in ASP.NET

aeinbu — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:46:42 +0000

Today I’m presenting the free one-day course in ASP.NET at Microsofts Norway offices at Lysaker again.

I’ve prepared a zip archive containing both the presentation slides (as PDF) and a few artifacts I’ll use during the presentation. (Code files, sample XML documents, sql scripts etc.) Click here to download them! (Come back for the demos later. [...]

What is the fascination with Twitter?

aeinbu — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:15:29 +0000

Ok, I know this isn’t exactly breaking news. Twitter has been out there for a couple of years, but still many people don’t know what Twitter is. If you’re one of them, have a look at this short video explaining Twitter (2′23″).

Video explaining Twitter (From codecraft.com)

And even knowing what Twitter is, fewer understand the fascination [...]

Authenticating against Azure Table Storage

aeinbu — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:00:00 +0000

When searching for articles/blogs/samples about using Azure Table Storage from .NET, it seems most of them (if not all) depend on the StorageClient sample in the Azure SDK. I read about authentication with SharedKey or SharedKeyLite, and I always found the magic of these authentication schemes were wrapped up into several layers of abstractions in [...]

Free one-day course in ASP.NET

aeinbu — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:03:14 +0000

The free one-day ASP.NET course I gave in june was a great hit, so Microsoft and Programutvikling AS decided to do it again!

When? Tuesday September 1. in Microsofts Norway offices at Lysaker.

Read more about the course AND sign up for it here!

(The course is presented in Norwegian.)

How to use Windows Azure table storage

aeinbu — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:00:17 +0000

I found several great articles showing how to work with Windows Azure Table Storage:

Rob Bagby’s Azure Application Part 2: Access Azure Table Storage Jim Nakashima’s Windows AzureWalkthrough: Table Storage Video tutorials on Microsofts Azure developer portal

All these, however, assume that the table storage will be used from an Azure web or worker role. I wanted to see if the Windows [...]

My first batch of photos on Flickr

aeinbu — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:38:29 +0000

…or if they’re having trouble, go directly to flickr.com/aeinbu to see them.

Traverse a hierarchical structure with LINQ-to-Hierarchical

aeinbu — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:33:19 +0000

RecentIy I needed to find a specific TreeNode in a TreeView control. I expected that would be easy with LINQ, but quickly realized that there is no method in the .NET framework that will let me traverse all nodes of a hierarchy. I decided to create one myself.

I started by trying out how I would [...]

Mythbusters: Unit-testing

aeinbu — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:07:59 +0000

While I believe most or many developers have heard of JUnit/NUnit/<your testing framework here>, fewer know how to write a test and running it using such a framework. And from those, even fewer have a good understanding of how to make unit testing a part of the development workflow.

I’ve known about unit testing and unit [...]

The trouble with delimited

aeinbu — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:45:34 +0000

In this previous article articles about parsing files, I took a very simplistic approach to reading a delimited file. I used string.Split, which doesn’t handle the use of quotes and usage of the delimiter character inside quotes.

Well, it turns out theres more to reading a delimited file than splitting at the delimiter…

Is this a problem? It depends [...]

Files from the one-day ASP.NET course

aeinbu — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:20:20 +0000

You can download all the files used and created during my one-day ASP.NET course here. The zip file contains the slides (PDF), the databases and all the files created during the presentation.

The files have been renamed and organized in folders, so hopefully it should be easy to find the demo you’re looking for.

Prerequisites to run [...]

Free one-day course in ASP.NET

aeinbu — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:00:37 +0000

Today I’m presenting a free one-day course in ASP.NET at Microsofts Norway offices at Lysaker. You can download the presentation here.

If you don’t already have Visual Studio, you can download the free Microsoft Web Platform installer here.

The course is presented by Programutvikling AS and Microsoft Noway.

Shortcuts for unittesting

aeinbu — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:16:50 +0000

When you’re doing unittesting in a project, there are two more shortcuts that would be nice to have.

These days, I’m running tests more often than I’m running the app, so why stop at having only the F5 so available for running the app in the debugger?

I have used ReSharper (R#) and TestDriven.NET, and none of [...]

Free one-day course in ASP.NET

aeinbu — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:25:00 +0000

Microsoft Norway offers a free one-day course in ASP.NET.

What’s cool about Code Snippets?

aeinbu — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:00:04 +0000

Code snippets are pre-created pieces of code, and Visual Studio supports two kinds of them. Expanding code snippets and surrounding code snippets. You can get started with code snippets right away, since Visual Studio ships with lots of them.

So, how do they work? Well, the expanding code snippets are the easiest to use; you select a snippet [...]

More parsing textfiles with LINQ

aeinbu — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:33:25 +0000

In a previous article, I described how to use LINQ when parsing a textfile.

Following that train of thoughts further, I found a more elegant way of splitting the lines from the file into columns. Creating extension methods on top of IEnumerable<string> seems like a good idea! Something that could be used like this for a [...]

Arjans blog

Clearing out the bookshelf

Custom ASP.NET DataSource parameters

More presentations coming up…

Diving deeper into Windows Azure table storage

Files from the one-day ASP.NET course

Free one-day course in ASP.NET

What is the fascination with Twitter?

Authenticating against Azure Table Storage

Free one-day course in ASP.NET

How to use Windows Azure table storage

My first batch of photos on Flickr

Traverse a hierarchical structure with LINQ-to-Hierarchical

Mythbusters: Unit-testing

The trouble with delimited

Files from the one-day ASP.NET course

Free one-day course in ASP.NET

Shortcuts for unittesting

Free one-day course in ASP.NET

What’s cool about Code Snippets?

More parsing textfiles with LINQ