C# Guild (csharp)

Link Buttons as DefaultButtons in Firefox

2011-03-10T08:58:00.001-08:00

This issue was bugging me then I found this post that fixes it. The issue is that you
have an asp panel and have the button set to default. For styling reasons you want the
button to be a link button.

After changing it the enter key does not click the button instead it just refreshes the page.
Frustrating as it may seem there is a quick solution. Check out this blog post for the solution.

Link Button As An Asp Panel Default Button

Hope this helps your frustrations.

Sitecore Guild

2010-11-24T19:28:00.001-08:00

I would like to take this opportunity to invite the Sitecore Guild to the family.

You can access the Sitecore Guild at:

Sitecore Guild Blog

You may also follow them on Twitter at: Sitecore Guild On Twitter

Sitecore is an amazing CMS built on ASP.NET. It is flexible as it includes full source code but is also easy for an end user to edit and publish content. For those who have not checked it out yet you need to. You will be amazed.

The next user group meeting for Sitecore in Toronto is in February. Check out the Sitecore Guild often for information on the next user group and for tips on using Sitecore.

If you have any tips, tricks or resources you would like to share please email Susan Fischer at susan@clinchportal.com

Single, Double or Triple Equal?

2010-06-11T10:31:00.002-07:00

Someone asked me about this today so I thought I would share it with the guild. Most C# developers are familiar with the single vs double equals but in JavaScript what is the triple equals. Well it turns out the triple equal takes variable type into account. So 1 is not equal to '1' if you use the triple equal.

I did some searching and found an article on devx that explains it perfectly with an example. I have placed the link below:

http://www.devx.com/tips/Tip/42439

Web Farms vs Web Gardens

2010-06-10T10:33:00.000-07:00

A friend of mine asked me this question today so I thought I would post the response on the guild in case others were wondering.

Web gardens are different from Web farms. A Web garden is configured on a single server by specifying multiple worker processes for an application pool. Web farms use multiple servers for a Web site.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/659f2e2c-a58b-4770-833b-df96cabe569e.mspx?mfr=true

Agile is not working? Scrum neither? Maybe you need to try Ad Hoc What's Hot

2010-06-02T11:33:00.000-07:00

I hear a lot of complaints about Agile and Scrum, but in the next breath as they

explain how they are doing it. I realize that they are not really doing Agile or Scrum.

This article explains some of the scrumbuts that are causing you to come to this conclusion.

http://www.softwareresults.us/2010/06/agile-is-fragile.html

This brings back the idea of the new methodology called Ad Hoc What's Hot. This methodology allows you to use your existing methodology for most projects that are large or require lots of external connections or integrations. For the other projects you can use agile or scrum.

Although many hard core agile developers would argue that its all or nothing. Sometimes its more efficient for the project not to use agile either due to current environment, training, or other factors.

If you would like more information on this new methodology please email Susan Fischer at susan@clinchportal.com

Login and Registration Tips and Tricks

2010-05-21T11:28:00.001-07:00

This link provides tips and best practices for creating user management pages for your sites. Since this blog is about asp.net I thought you might find it useful.

http://www.getelastic.com/registration-usability-tips-ecommerce/

Ad Hoc What's Hot Methodology

2010-05-19T06:00:00.000-07:00

Everybody is trying to do Agile development, some do it right, others end up using a hybrid solution. The "Ad Hoc" What's Hot" Methodology is for shops that are transitioning to Agile Development but since they are having trouble transitioning into the short cycles, they can run larger projects as per normal but run smaller "Ad Hoc" projects along side that have definite features that will be released in a 2-4 week cycle. These project are done to ensure they are keeping up with what is hot.

For example, you have a legacy web application but iPad is hot so you create an "Ad Hoc" project to develop an app for the iPad. It has specific features and its unit tested throughout the process.

If you would like more information on this new methodology please email Susan Fischer at susan@clinchportal.com and we can send you a white paper.

Journalism and Debugging Code

2010-05-06T05:49:00.000-07:00

A friend of mine twittered this earlier today and I found it interesting so I thought I would pass on the link. The article compares Journalism concepts to those developers use in developing and debugging code. Its an interesting article that is both enlightening for journalists and developers.

http://www.greglinch.com/2010/05/computational-thinking-and-the-new-journalism-mindset.html

If you have any tip, tricks, resources, or articles you would like to share with the guild please email them to Susan Fischer at susan@clinchportal.com and we will post them here.

How to Write a Provider Model

2010-04-14T12:15:00.000-07:00

When I search for creating custom providers, I found a lot of examples on how to create a membership provider, role provider etc. It took a lot of searching to find an article on how to write a provider model but eventually I found this one.

http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/designpatterns/howtowriteaprovidermodel.aspx

I am surprised more people are not taking advantage of provider models. They allow for a more extensible application. Take for example a crm application. The main provider could be the sql server database but you could write a google contact provider, a facebook provider, plaxo, great plains, csv, vcard provider. By doing so you could load contacts generically and save back the results to the various providers. If someone wanted to run their crm app atop google contacts why not.

If you have created your own provider model, please post comments and let us know what you experienced both good and bad.

Issues Consuming Web Services From Java or Lotus Notes

2010-02-18T06:15:00.001-08:00

If you are running into issues regarding a wsdl for a .net web service not being consumed by lotus notes here is an article that will assist:

http://michelles-universe.blogspot.com/2009/02/consuming-net-web-services-in-notes-85.html

If you have any tips tricks, or resources you would like to share with the guild please email them to Susan Fischer at susan@clinchportal.com

Barbie - The coder

2010-02-12T11:43:00.000-08:00

I came across this article about the new computer engineer barbie. I thought I would pass it on.
Our field goes through cycles where its cool then geeky then cool again. I guess now its cool again. This time so cool barbie is even taking a crack at it.

http://gigaom.com/2010/02/12/coders-get-a-new-colleague-barbie/

Way to go barbie. If you have any tips, tricks, resources or fun links you think would be helpful to the group please comment on a post or email them to susan fischer at susan@clinchportal.com

"This collection already contains an address with scheme http. There can be at most one address per scheme in this collection"

2009-07-15T13:01:00.001-07:00

If you are using a third party host like discountasp.net and you are trying to host a wcf service
within your web application and you get this error message:

"This collection already contains an address with scheme http. There can be at most one address per scheme in this collection"

you will need to add the following web.config key:

<servicehostingenvironment>
<baseaddressprefixfilters>
<add prefix="httplinktoyoursite">
</baseaddressprefixfilters>
</servicehostingenvironment>

If you have any tips, tricks or resources you would like to share with the group please email them to Susan Fischer at susan@clinchportal.com

Setting the default browser in visual studio

2009-07-07T11:55:00.000-07:00

I keep forgetting how to do this and alway have to search for it so I thought I would post the answer here.

Step 1: Open any .aspx file
Step 2: From the File menu choose Browse With:
Step 3: Select the browser from the list and choose set as default.

Voila that is all. Thanks Steve for the answer.
http://stevenharman.net/blog/archive/2007/08/02/setting-a-default-browser-for-visual-studio.aspx

Theme not being applied for a certain page

2009-06-30T08:39:00.000-07:00

Scenario: You put the default theme in the web.config. You check the theme value all the way through the event chain and its value is correct but the css references never make it to your page.

Solution: You probably overrode the Page.OnInit event and did not call the base.
NOTE: If your page derives from a base page be sure to check if it is overriding properly by calling base.OnInit(e)

The Page.OnInit method does the following
protected internal override void OnInit(EventArgs e)
{
base.OnInit(e);
if (this._theme != null)
{
this._theme.SetStyleSheet();
}
if (this._styleSheet != null)
{
this._styleSheet.SetStyleSheet();
}
}
Obviously by not calling the base.OnInit method on my derived Page class would ignore the inclusion of theme files.

The original answer was found here: http://forums.asp.net/t/1028417.aspx

If you have any tips, tricks or resources you would like to share with the group please email them to chrisw_88@hotmail.com or susan@clinchportal.com and we will add them here.

Forcing a Refresh from JavaScript

2009-05-22T12:28:00.000-07:00

I found a good article on how to do this check it out at this link:

http://devel.lubong.com/2007/06/24/javascript-how-to-force-page-to-reload/

They are using the window.location.reload(true); much like I am in my code.
However I did not realize why we use true instead of false. but he explains it so well:

The reload method accepts a boolean value, which, when it is true, causes the page to always fetch document from the server. When none is specified, it defaults to false, which may reload the page from its cache.

The issue I am having and if any of you know the answer is that in firefox on the second call to this I get a popup that says:

To display this page, Firefox must send information that will repeat any action (such as a search or order confirmation) that was performed earlier.

If you have any ideas on why please post them to this blog posting.

Debugging a windows service

2009-04-16T11:02:00.000-07:00

It took me a while to find this again. If you place this line of code in your onstart event then it will launch the prompt to debug and you can run your service in visual studio.

System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Break()

Hope this helps you as well.

If you have any tips tricks, resources you would like to share with the group please email them to Susan Fischer at susan@clinchportal.com

Error when browsing to wcf service .svc

2009-04-11T18:06:00.000-07:00

PROBLEM: You try to hit your WCF Service and get an error. When you try to browse to it you get the following error:

HTTP Error 404.3 - Not Found
The page you are requesting cannot be served because of the extension configuration. If the page is a script, add a handler. If the file should be downloaded, add a MIME map.

SOLUTION: This usually means that WCF is not registered with IIS. You can manually register it by clicking on start and run and running the following command:

C:\windows\Microsoft.Net\Framework\v3.0\Windows Communication Foundation\servicemodelreg.exe -i

If the directory does not exist then it means the proper version of the .net framework is not installed. You can install the proper version from the Microsoft site.

If you have any tips, tricks, or resources, please email them to Susan Fischer at susan@clinchportal.com and we will post them.

Session keeps timing out when debugging iis7

2009-04-09T08:03:00.001-07:00

I found out why this is happening.

In IIS7 on the Application Pool, there are ping settings that will kill a session if it gets not response. This is great for production as it keeps iis running slim but when debugging in Visual Studio and stopping on a breakpoint that is nasty.

I found an article that explains how to disable the ping or extend the timeout period.
Application Pool Ping setting in IIShttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725836.aspx

If you come across any tips, tricks or resource you think the group will find helpful please email them to Susan Fischer at susan@clinchportal.com and we will post them here.

Agile Development and Jack Milunsky

2009-03-06T19:53:00.000-08:00

If you are looking to learn more about how to do agile development properly then the
person you want to get to know is Jack Milunsky. He is currently a blog author at:

http://agilesoftwaredevelopment.com/

You can also check out Jack Milunsky Agile development blog at blog.agilebuddy.com

Jack Milunsky is currently working at www.agilebuddy.com
They have a great tool to help keep your agile development on track.

asp.net cheat sheets

2009-03-02T06:23:00.000-08:00

As most developers do not like to memorize charts of definitions, we may tend to hit google a lot for those common charts such as date format string, etc. Below are a list of those common charts. by bookmarking this blog entry you can easily find them all instead of trying to remember what search term yo used to find that specific chart.

If you have a chart you would like to see listed here please email Susan Fischer at susan@clinchportal.com and she will add it to the list below:

Date and Time Format Strings:

Where are the debugging visualizers from 2005? Why are they not in 2008? I found them!!!

2009-02-20T11:25:00.000-08:00

Well technically I didn't find them. I found an article that told me where they were.
Here is an article with a link to the dlls and how to integrate them:

http://www.codeplex.com/WCFVisualizer

Hope this helps you. If you have any tips, tricks, or resources that you think the group would be
interested in please email them to Susan Fischer at susan@clinchportal.com

Error - The web services enumeration components are not available

2009-01-15T19:18:00.000-08:00

I got this very error and Joel Alexandre came up with the solution:

Error - The web services enumeration components are not available
Published by
Joel Alexandre
1 year, 10 months ago
in .NET, Programming, Web and Windows.
In Visual Studio 2005, if you get this following message - The web services enumeration components are not available. You need to reinstall Visual Studio to add web references to your application - try running this from the prompt: devenv /resetskippkgs

Lots of Windows Tools

2009-01-07T08:01:00.000-08:00

Thanks to the B.B. the Guitar Hero for this one.

List of utils:
http://bhandler.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!70F64BC910C9F7F3!1231.entry?wa=wsignin1.0

List of stuff for Vista:
http://bhandler.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!70F64BC910C9F7F3!1844.entry

If you have any tips, tricks, resources you would like to share with the guild please email them to Susan Fischer at susan@clinchportal.com and we will post them.

Detecting an Ajax Async PostBack on page_load

2008-12-11T13:14:00.000-08:00

I had to search a few times to find this. People were giving very unique answers but this one is the correct one:

if(!ScriptManager.GetCurrent(this).IsInAsyncPostBack)
{
//code when it is a sync postback
}
else
{
//code when it is an async postback
}

If you have any tips, tricks, resources you would like to share with the guild please email them to Susan Fischer at susan@clinchportal.com and we will post them.

Finding what version of dlls an exe is referencing

2008-11-25T07:46:00.000-08:00

If you are getting an error about a version of a dll not matching when you run the exe then you need to get the right version of the dll. The way to find the dll version is to use an application like:

http://www.red-gate.com/products/reflector/

If you come across any tips, tricks, tools, resources that you think the guild will find useful please email me at susan@clinchportal.com

Object Dumper: An invaluable library when learning Linq or simply to figure out what an object is doing.

2008-11-06T08:17:00.001-08:00

I came across this interesting library as part of the LINQ samples. Its called the Object Dumper. Basically it uses reflection on your object and dumps the results to the console for you.

The object dumper is a small utility library that comes with the LINQ CTP
samples. It basically iterates through the properties using reflection and dumps
the values to the console window. You can find the source at C:\Program
Files\LINQ Preview\Samples\ObjectDumper in the C# download.Jim
Wooley http://devauthority.com/blogs/jwooley/default.aspx

This is invaluable when you have a chunk of code you are developing and currently don't have a ui. You are simply developing the data layer and business rules layer. This object will spit out the results for you. Afterwards you could run a winmerge or other compare tool on the object at start and stop and see what changed. This is extremely valuable if your object trees are really large.

If you come across any tips, tricks, tools, code snippets that you find useful please email them to me at susan@clinchportal.com and I will post them for the group.

Mole - debug visualizer for visual studio

2008-10-24T12:00:00.001-07:00

Take a peek at this replacement debug visualizer for visual studio... the new version allows updating values during debug. I've been using it for a few days and it's got great drill down for collections and datasets.

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/macros/MoleForVisualStudioEdit.aspx#Update

If you have any tips, tricks, resources, etc that you think other C# Guild Members would benefit from please email them to susan@clinchportal.com and I will update this blog.

How To Create a Guid in C#?

2008-10-09T13:50:00.000-07:00

I noticed people searching for how to create a guid in C#. The quick answer is

System.Guid.NewGuid();

If you would like more information on what a guid is. The following article will help you out:

http://www.csharpfriends.com/Articles/getArticle.aspx?articleID=335

If you have any tips, tricks, resources you may find useful to the group please email Susan Fischer at susan@clinchportal.com

top 10 c# sites

2008-10-09T12:24:00.001-07:00

As Requested here are the Top 10 C# Sites

Scott Gu's blog - Why not get it right from the guy developing it?

4 guys from rolla

ASP Alliance

msdn

devx

MSDN Blog

code project

Geeks with blogs

Ode To Code

asp.net and asp.net forums

Bonus Entries: Because everyone knows there are more than ten

411 asp.net

DotNet Freaks

lazy ass coder - Admit it all programmers are lazy. Why Write It Twice?

DotNet Bips - Lots of tutorials

C# Station

Linq's Lack of Consistancy

2008-07-25T07:25:00.000-07:00

I have been playing with the various flavors of Linq: Linq for Objects, Linq for SQL, Linq for XML. The one thing I found troublesome was the vast difference in the syntax and functionality between them. We need someone to write a library above linq to get rid of some of these. For example: Linq to DataSet allows you to do use an extension method to grab it as a datatable or dataview. I would love to do the same regardless of whether I am using XML as my data source or SQL Server. The point of Linq is to reduce the amount of code needed. If we reduce some of the differences then we can share even more of the code and further reduce the lines we need.

If anyone has any extension method classes or a framework over linq that will do this let me know and I will post it here for other to use.

Regular Expressions - Help!!!

2008-05-25T19:05:00.001-07:00

If you are like me you find dealing with regular expressions both powerful and frustrating.I found a couple links that may help you on your journey to build regular expressions.

Roy Osherove has a few tools here that will be useful. The first is the Regulator that allows you to build regular expression with intellisense included. The second tool is the regulazy that allows you to typein text select it and via right click create your regular expression:

http://tools.osherove.com/Default.aspx?tabid=165

The third is not really a tool but a library that helps you find regular expressions that others have created for you:

http://regexlib.com/

This posting is also available at: http://clinch-aspnet.blogspot.com/2008/05/regular-expressions-help.html You can check out this blog for additional information related to asp.net

If you find any regular expression tools or other tools you find useful please email them to me at susan@clinchportal.com

Intermittent Invalid Viewstate Error in ASP.NET Web Pages

2008-05-15T15:47:00.000-07:00

If you are getting Intermittent Invalid Viewstate Error in ASP.NET Web pages possibly this article will help you

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555353

If not and you find one that does simply email Susan Fischer at susan@clinchportal.com and she or I can post them here.

Perpetual Beginner

2008-05-02T10:10:00.001-07:00

For those just learning some of the newer technologies such as subsonic, linq, mvc, etc this is going to be fast becoming the place to go. It is definitely a blog to keep an eye on. The Perpetual Beginner, Jesse Naiman, will soon be a name you will remember.

Here is the link to his Perpetual Beginner blog at : http://alt-net-guild.blogspot.com/

Free Source Control Repository That Integrates With Visual Studio

2008-05-02T07:07:00.000-07:00

My friend Jesse Naiman sent me a recommendation for free source control for a project I am working on. I thought about writing a recommendation myself but he words it perfectly. Here is his recommendation:

This site is awesome http://www.assembla.com/

You
can setup a free SVN repository (up to 500MB), and you get an amazing amount
project management tools.

A couple helpful hints on SVN in case
you haven’t used it.

Install tortoisesvn which will allow you to
manage source control through windows explorer.
Install AnkhSVN
to get svn integrated into visual studio.

What is Pheonix?

2008-04-22T05:46:00.000-07:00

I have noticed people searching for Phoenix.

Phoenix is a framework for building compilers and a wide range of tools for
program analysis, optimization, and testing. Phoenix is designed to support
advanced techniques in compilation and program analysis. It provides a wide
variety of building blocks, implemented around a common intermediate
representation. Phoenix applies equally well to basic block analysis; memory
tracing; code coverage; fault injection; run-time profiling and feedback;
ahead-of-time and just-in-time compilers; and whole-program, post-link, and
runtime optimization.

I did some poking around and found a couple links for you:

http://research.microsoft.com/phoenix/
http://blogs.msdn.com/srisub/archive/2006/10/19/Phoenix-as-an-instruction-tool.aspx

WebControls: Overriding RenderContent vs Render

2008-04-14T18:21:00.000-07:00

Many examples of creating WebControls will override Render while others override RenderContent. This confused me for the longest time as I didn't really see the difference.
It was only when I was introduced to adapters that I realize why you use one over the other.

If you override RenderContent, then the wrapper tag is created for you. By default its a span but you can use adapters to change it. If instead you override Render, you are responsible for the outer tag and must take into account yourself adapters or force the control user to use your tag.

http://alvinzc.blogspot.com/2006/10/aspnet-basic-of-custom-server-control.html

If you have any tips, tricks, questions about C#, .NET or the like please email them to susan@clinchportal.com

WinMerge as Compare Tool In Team Foundation Server

2008-02-14T13:16:00.000-08:00

Some of you are probably frustrated with the compare tool in TFS well if you like WinMerge then here is a link to help you use it as an alternative:

http://neovolve.com/archive/2007/06/19/using-winmerge-with-tfs.aspx

Visual Studio Goes Off In Limbo

2008-02-14T08:11:00.001-08:00

AutoRecover is a feature in VS 2005, which used for automatically saving work on a regular basis. This will be helpful when power failure or system crash. Anyway, we could turn off it in VS 2005 optionsEnviornmentAutoRecover http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa718517.aspx [AutoRecover in the IDE] If you go into Tools/Options and click on the environment tab you may see an option for AutoRecover.If not there is a checkbox at the bottom that says show all options then it will show up.When you click on AutoRecover you will notice that it tries to save your work every 5 minutes.

Trouble installing Visual Studio or .net Framework

2008-02-01T09:18:00.000-08:00

I was having trouble installing Visual Studio 2008 after installing earlier betas of it.
Unfortunately the uninstall in add/remove programs was broken. I came across this tool and used it to remove the older frameworks. I thought I would pass it on:

http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2005/04/08/406671.aspx

Setting User Control Properties in Repeaters

2008-01-23T14:56:00.000-08:00

The way microsoft parses this is kind of silly but you need to ensure that you use a single quote to wrap your property values. You CANNOT place any text between the ' and < % or it will fail.

'< % # String.Format( "xsl/nav/{0}_config.xml" , DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "MenuItem_Name" )) % >'

Could not load file or assembly Access is denied

2007-12-14T10:07:00.000-08:00

Microsoft in its wisdom does some silly things. Sometimes some machines will have this set
and other machines not by default. In any case, if you do not have this set it will not allow you
to include projects inside another tfs project.

This may also cause this to occur in other circumstances. If you get this error here is the solution.

Use windows explorer to go to C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727
Right click on the Temporary ASP.NET Files and click properties
On the securities tab give User full control

See article below:

Could not load file or assembly Access is denied

http://blogs.msdn.com/sayanghosh/archive/2007/04/21/solution-to-could-not-load-file-or-assembly-or-one-of-its-dependencies-access-is-denied.aspx

Hope this article is helpful. If you run across any issue that you fixed or found a link to a useful solution or tip email me at chrisw_88@hotmail.com or susan@clinchportal.com

Subsonic - All your Databases Belong To Us

2007-11-17T06:25:00.000-08:00

Recently a colleague of mine introduced me to an amazing technology. Subsonic is a tool that integrates closely with Visual Studio 2005 and will generate an object model for your database at compile time based on the database connection in your web.config.

This greatly simplifies your code as all the connection logic, proc calls with types etc all disappear into a couple lines of code. Its amazing. You should really look into it. I have provided a couple links here to get you started.\\

Here is the main site for the project: http://www.subsonicproject.com/
You will also want the tools that integrate with Visual Studio 2005 available at:
http://www.codeplex.com/subsonictools

If you have any cool links about subsonic post comments here with them or email them to me at chris@clinchportal.com or chrisw_88@hotmail.com

Enumerating SQL Servers from .NET 2.0

2007-09-20T05:40:00.000-07:00

I ran into a situation where I was not sure of the name of the SQL Server I would be using on a hosted site. I found this code that helped to find a list of them all.

http://dotnetslackers.com/SQL/re-20320_Enumerating_SQL_Servers_from_NET_2_0.aspx

Hope this helps you too.

Name/Value Collections

2007-08-09T09:59:00.000-07:00

I noticed a few people are looking for information on name/value collections so I did a search and have posted a few links I have found here:

Name Value Collection Example: http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/System/Collections/Specialized/NameValueCollection.aspx

How to convert NameValue Collection when using ViewState http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread114883.html

name value collection in a web service:
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=188315&SiteID=1

How this changes in Orca:
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/03/08/new-c-orcas-language-features-automatic-properties-object-initializers-and-collection-initializers.aspx

Issue Downloading Orcas

2007-06-22T06:56:00.000-07:00

I tried downloading Orcas from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5d9c6b2d-439c-4ec2-8e24-b7d9ff6a2ab2&DisplayLang=en but part 5 seems to be corrupt.

I tried the Microsoft online Chat but was told to call tech support that told me to go to support.microsoft.com still no luck.

If anyone actually has a working version of this part or an alternate download for the alpha please email me at chrisw_88@hotmail.com

For now, I am trying out the express edition at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/future/default.aspx

I am actually trying to play with SilverLight so I am hoping that the Web Developer version works with it.

Please pass this on to all the C# developers you know. For more information or if you have any tips, tricks, events that you think other C# Guild members would benefit from, please email me at chrisw_88@hotmail.com

Top 7 reasons C# is better than VB.NET

2007-04-18T08:47:00.000-07:00

I know this is preaching to the converted but in case your boss or some other developers you know are still stuck on VB.NET. Here is a list of reasons why C# is better than VB.NET.

In C# the line ends when I type the semicolon. Allowing you to write all your code on one line of the need is required
Features for VB.NET such as MVC are written and available in C# first then VB.
Most third party control libraries that supply source code are in C# so any bug fixes you need to make will require C# coding
Comments in C# are just better. Its easier to read them when not using Visual Studio
Microsoft codes a majority of their stuff in C#
You can more easily access the API from C#. No need for Declare statements
Most C# developers can code VB but less VB developers can code C#.

Calgary Code Camp Announcement!

2007-04-17T09:47:00.000-07:00

I went to the Toronto Code Camp and it was really good. I recommend if you are a serious .NET developer that you go and take part and possibly present. Its free so the price could not be better. You can connect with other developers, and learn what others are doing in the field. Below is the actual event posting:

Announcing the second annual Calgary Code Camp! In case you weren't there last year, you might be wondering, "What is a Code Camp?" Simply put, a Code Camp is a developer event by and for the developer community. You get a full day of developer-focused content created by fellow developers. You'll see code, code, and more code. The sessions will cover a wide variety of topics, including .NET, ASP.NET, Windows Forms, MonoRail, TDD, NHibernate, Castle Windsor, WCF, Mono, Software Factories, XNA, CAB, mock objects, continuous integration, and much more.

The price for the event is the same as last year - COMPLETELY FREE! A full day of code and fun with cool door prizes for absolutely nothing.

Date/Time: Saturday, April 28, 2007 from 8:00am - 5:30pm

Location: MacEwan Conference Centre (University of Calgary)

Cost: COMPLETELY FREE

If you are interested in attending this event, sign-up now at http://www.calgarycodecamp.com.

I am here in Toronto so I will not see you there so I hope you will email the Guild and tell us what you thought.

Please pass this on to all the C# developers you know. For more information please email me at chrisw_88@hotmail.com

The C# (csharp) Guild is born like a pheonix from the ashes of C++

2007-04-11T09:24:00.000-07:00

In the beginning was the Commodore 64 and the creator thought it was good.They formed the "MLX Guild" where they could share their series of numbers thatthey typed religiously from their Compute Gazette magazines.

Soon came bigger and better creations like the Commodore Amega and people startedplaying with sound and visuals. Thus the cult reformed as the "Amega Guild".

As time went on other cults burned and reformed like a pheonix, refining itself on its journey. The "Pascal Guild", the "C Guild", the "C++ Guild".

Finally it reaches its perfection, "C# (csharp) Guild" is born.

Please pass this on to all the C# (csharp) developers you know. For more information please email me at chrisw_88@hotmail.com