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Microsoft Dynamics CRM Web Services: How to join entities to filter QueryExpression results

There just isn't much information out there about Microsoft Dynamics CRM Web Services... at least not when compared to other technologies.  And with Silverlight and Surface and PopFly burning up the MS blogosphere, it's kind of understandable. Read More
posted Thursday, June 07, 2007 4:39 AM by richard | 0 Comments
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SQL Server 2005 XQuery does not implement XQuery 1.0 / XPath 2.0 fully

A coworker of mine was trying to apply the XPath 2.0 upper-case() function to some shredded xml from a query in SQL Server 2005 and inquired about it with me just before heading out the door. Here's what's happening: You try to apply the upper-case function Read More
posted Tuesday, May 29, 2007 9:33 PM by richard | 2 Comments
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SqlDbType to SqlType mapping

Just want to save this mapping URL on MSDN of SqlDbType to SqlType (the 'native' sql types you should use in Sql CLR code), since I expect to be doing some of that, shortly! http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemDataSqlTypes.asp Read More
posted Saturday, February 11, 2006 8:59 PM by richard | 0 Comments
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Application Updater Blocks 2.0 - Unusable? Please prove me wrong!

I would not post such a thing as this if I had not spent a LOT of time looking at it.  But I have, and the new Application Updater Block v2.0 has been neither easy to implement nor reliable in even toy problems for me.  I'm extremely disappointed.  Read More
posted Wednesday, April 06, 2005 10:42 AM by richard | 4 Comments
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NUnit test a WinForm without the fuss

VS.NET is a funny thing, it won't let you reference an .exe and yet csc.exe will.  That's a bit of a pain when you want to reference, say, a WinForm for unit testing purposes.  Sure, you can create a separate assembly project for the entry point Read More
posted Wednesday, March 23, 2005 9:42 AM by richard | 2 Comments
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"A Programmer is a device for turning coffee into code"

On the merits of caffeine: “As the mathematician Paul Erdos said, 'A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.' Academics, designers, programmers, and creative professionals everywhere will surely empathize.” http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mindhks/chapter/hack92.pd Read More
posted Wednesday, March 09, 2005 11:00 AM by richard | 2 Comments
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If I were boss ...

... this is how I'd assign work, from time to time (pre-production code only, of course). int System.Collections.IComparer.Compare(object x, object y) { throw new NotImplementedException(@ "Congratulations, you've found the missing Read More
posted Wednesday, February 02, 2005 11:51 AM by richard | 0 Comments
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shell32.SHEmptyRecycleBin

Nothing to see here, just linking to my Wikied contribution to pinvok.net   Read More
posted Tuesday, November 23, 2004 10:15 AM by richard | 1 Comments
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Interesting m.p.d.l.c post on Agile/XP

I don't know who Nick Malik is but I like his practical views on eXtreme Programming Read More
posted Tuesday, November 16, 2004 7:02 PM by richard | 2 Comments
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Visual Studio.NET 2003 Automation Samples link

Nothing to see here, just saving this link: Visual Studio.NET 2003 Automation Samples link   Read More
posted Wednesday, November 03, 2004 9:20 AM by richard | 1 Comments
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Coin a phrase: SOAPosphere

SOAPosphere: The logical and/or physical 'atmosphere' or contiguous bounded environment of transport/RPC services surrounding a silo of service functionality.  The SOAP-based 'web services' that fulfill the PE & CE of the PEACE tenets Read More
posted Tuesday, August 24, 2004 1:54 PM by richard | 1 Comments
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How do you organize your code?

Hello, for those of you that might care - I'm back from my blogging hiatus, sort of.  This time, I want to ask a question of you: What kind of ways do you organize your personal code?  What folder structure do you choose?  Do you name folders Read More
posted Monday, July 19, 2004 4:18 PM by richard | 7 Comments
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A small point about boxing and value types

An explicit call to a struct method, even if it overrides an object method, will not implicitly box.  However, consider this case: static void Main() { int i=65536; Console.WriteLine("This is boxed: {0}", i); Console.WriteLine("This Read More
posted Saturday, March 27, 2004 3:21 PM by richard | 2 Comments
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string.Format in SQL

I needed string.Format in SQL just now, so I made it up (not very exciting but nicer than writing nested REPLACE statements. YMMV   DROP FUNCTION dbo.fnFormatString GO CREATE FUNCTION dbo.fnFormatString(@format varchar(6000), @arg1 sql_variant, Read More
posted Thursday, March 25, 2004 7:52 PM by richard | 2 Comments
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Eric Gunnerson does Dynamic Code

This is a great new article. Of special note is the little Whidbey note at the bottom: Delegates have been optimized and, if I'm reading the chart right, will be about 3 times faster :)   Read More
posted Wednesday, March 10, 2004 9:16 PM by richard | 2 Comments
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