juli 2006 - Posts

29 juli 2006
Port of Ventrilo status protocol
Two weeks ago I spent an entire day with Remco (aka Divinity), a friend of mine for another session of Freaky Twelve Hours (12 hours coding by a pair of nerds. Yep, that’s freaky allright). We set our sights to porting the UDP status protocol for Ventrilo servers and build a Atlas enabled control... Read More...
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26 juli 2006
Calling webservices from client-side Atlas: part 2 of 2
Part 1 left us able to call web services that are local. In part 2 we will take a look at web services that are remote to our own website that hosts the Atlas enabled page. Seems like a trivial thing to do. I mean, it’s “just” a soap call over HTTP, right? The challenge lies in the... Read More...
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24 juli 2006
Fixing the Shared Type Schema Importer Extension for nullable value types
When you add a Web Reference to your project, Visual Studio will also import all schema types defined in the WSDL’s schema section. You can create a schema importer extension (SIE) to influence the way the XSD schema types are mapped to your CLR types. There is a very nice article by Jelle Druyts... Read More...
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20 juli 2006
Calling webservices from client-side Atlas: part 1 of 2
The March and May 2006 CTP’s of Atlas introduced two formal ways to call web services from a web browser. The difference is in the location of the web services. Local web services Remote or external web services Atlas makes it really easy to call web services when they are local, i.e. reside in... Read More...
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16 juli 2006
C# 3.0 for mere mortals, part 4: Object and collection initializers
The fourth part in the C# 3.0 series will cover both object and collection initializers. In the previous part we have already seen a glimpse of object initialization. Take this simple class: public class Blog { public string Title; private int _postCount; public int PostCount { get { return _postCount;... Read More...
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11 juli 2006
The XML schema's for DLinq
Tonight I browsed some more through the documentation of DLinq (I’ll refer to Linq to SQL this way, because it is shorter and until the namespace is changed from System.Data.DLinq). In particular I looked at the document ‘DLinq Overview for C# Developers’. There is a section called... Read More...
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09 juli 2006
Linq to SQL + mapping files ~= ObjectSpaces
Most of the samples that have been around on Linq to SQL (formerly called DLinq) use CLR types that are annotated using attributes, such Column and Association. The System.Data.DLinq.DataContext class extracts the metadata during runtime. With this information it knows how to build SQL statements from... Read More...
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07 juli 2006
Blogging API madness
When I was working on the 1.2 release of Killer-Blog I ran into some mess. One of the main improvements is support for blogging API’s, so adding blog entries will be easier when using tools that support these. There are a couple of popular blogging API’s, most of which come from online weblog... Read More...
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06 juli 2006
Van Loon releases Counter-Strike map
Van Loon IT has built their own Counter-Strike 1.6 map. It’s a bomb plant/defuse map called de_office (instead of the hostage rescue official map cs_office). The map is modelled quite exactly after their own building. Since I have been there on numerous occasions, I do have an advantage to all other... Read More...
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05 juli 2006
Version 1.2 of Killer-Blog released
Killer-Blog has moved on to the next version. It’s been quite a while since the last update, but it is a significant one. Version 1.2 uses ASP.NET 2.0 and tries to utilize as much from that technology stack as possible. This includes: Sitemaps Master pages and themes Resourcing/localization Webparts... Read More...
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04 juli 2006
Get your own virtual mail server
Loads of people have their own domain name these days. In The Netherlands it is particularly easy to get your own domain, like alexthissen.nl. But not everybody has the luxury of their own mail server responding to that domain and where they can create mailboxes at their own leisure. Well, now you can... Read More...
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03 juli 2006
Binding and Sorting challenges
The ASP.NET GridView is able to bind to several data sources. These include the new DataSource controls, but also any IListSource, IEnumerable or IDataSource implementing objects. This also includes the generic collections such as List. The List makes binding to objects really easy, as long as your objects... Read More...
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