February 9th, 2012 
Often when prototyping .Net applications, I end up starting with a console app (as things get more complicated or require interactivity, I move to Windows forms). It takes about 1 minute to get up and running with a console app. . . unless you want to start passing fancy parameters and things like that. It [...]
Posts Tagged ‘C#’
Using an Entity Framework Data Model in Multiple Projects
I’m starting to dig into Entity Framework 4 as part of a project that I am working on. It is great, much easier than the old school data access methods in terms of getting up and running (it takes about 3 minutes). There are a lot of articles out there, but I have still had [...]
Editing Existing SSIS Package via EzAPI or Standard SSIS API Doesn’t Update Layout in BIDS
As part of a project I am working on that requires me to programmatically alter existing packages, I ran into an annoyance (bug?) in SSIS that makes it hard to open packages after altering them. The Problem During an exchange on Codeplex forums with Matt Masson from the SSIS team, he summarized the workflow as [...]
Posted in Development, Integration Services, SQL Server 
Tags: .NET, BIDS, C#, EzAPI, SSIS 
Comments OffA Simple Dynamic Site Map Page Using ASP.NET SiteMapDataSource And Nested DataLists
The Description I will start by describing exactly what this blog post will accomplish. This post is concentrated on producing an aspx page that will display a site map of all links provided in the web application site map file. All parent and child nodes. Not just a menu using the sitemap as a data [...]
Telerik RadControls Give “Error Rendering Control” Message In Design View Of Visual Studio
While using Telerik RadControls, I kept getting an error in design view of visual studio that read “Error rendering control”. This happened after I dragged a RadSkinManager and a RadAjaxPanel on the page. After much searching the web, I eventually ran across this blog entry written by a Telerik blog administrator. It is a known [...]
