Archive for the ‘Kinetic CRM’ Category

Microsoft pushed MVC to Beta!

Tonight microsoft has officially pushed ASP.NET MVC to Beta status.
Over the next few days I’ll be converting my CRM codebase to the new beta.
I’ll keep everyone posted on what has changed.

WOOHOO! Visual Studio 2008 is now being downloaded.

MSDN Released Visual Studio 2008 RTM to all MSDN Subscribers. I’m downloading the 3.1GB iso right now.
I’ll give a mini-review after i’ve had time to play with it over the Thanksgiving holiday.

Output parameters and dynamic sql

I came across something new for the first time today. Dynamic SQL with output parameters.
Here is how you do it in MSSQL.
DECLARE @totals INT
EXEC sp_executesql N’SELECT @totalCount = count(*) from sysobjects’, N’@totalCount INT OUTPUT’, @totals OUTPUT
print ‘Totals: ‘ + convert(varchar,@totals)

Visual Studio 2008 will be released in November.

Well you know you are an extreme geek when you are excited for a new release of an IDE.
I’m really looking forward to the integrated AJAX tools and the built in MVC framework.
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2202822/microsoft-sets-date-fro-visual

ASP.NET 2.0 Hot Tips and Tricks

Dan Wahlin has posted an awesome group of ASP.NET Tips and Tricks that were introduced with the ASP.NET 2.0 Framework.  It seems like every month I find another hidden gem in Microsoft’s Framework.
 1. Maintain the position of the scrollbar on postbacks:  In ASP.NET 1.1 it was a pain to maintain the position of the scrollbar [...]

Thank you Microsoft for recent .NET Support!

Well I just wanted to give a formal thank-you to Microsoft for it’s recent support of extending the tools for Microsoft Web Developers.  I’ve been pretty tough on Microsoft over the last year on it’s issues with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and it’s massive delay on releasing SP1. 
As most of you know, ASP.NET AJAX [...]

Javascript Library Reviews

 
Well the hype of Web2.0 has certainly revitalized Javascript in the web development community.  Just when you think it’s dead…  I look forward to researching each of these libraries more thoroughly and then incorporate the best suited one into Kinetic CRM.
Here is the summary of the 4 main libraries as described by [...]