As I’ve been writing about here for a while, my big learning project of 2006 was to pick up MySQL and to build a web site using ASP.NET with MySQL as the back-end. This went really well, better than I could have expected. For someone who has experience with SQL Server, the learning curve isn’t [...]
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Quick Keyboard Toggle Between Designer and Code View in Visual Studio
February 16th, 2007 · No Comments · .NET
I don’t use Dreamweaver to build web sites anymore since they gave up on supporting ASP.NET, but a few years back it was my favorite tool — for all its wrinkles, in the 1999-2003 timeframe, Dreamweaver was better than Visual Studio for building web sites. I’m looking forward to seeing what Adobe does with the [...]
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Outline of My MySQL Talk at VSLive
February 16th, 2007 · 3 Comments · .NET, MySQL
Here’s a list of slides I’m developing for the MySQL talk I’m giving at VSLive next month. This talk is intended for developers who are proficient with .NET and some kind of relational database but with with little or no exposure to MySQL. I am pretty sure that the talk is going to be 60 [...]
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Installing the MySQL ADO.NET Connector into the Global Assembly Cache
February 13th, 2007 · 2 Comments · .NET, MySQL
This morning I sat through a MySQL webinar on Visual Studio tools for MySQL presented by the most excellent Reggie Burnett.
One of the questions that came up after the talk pertained to installation problems on Windows. (I should preface all this by saying that MySQL, the database server, has a good installer and is a [...]
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“eBay Basics” C# Example
May 7th, 2004 · 6 Comments · .NET, Web/Tech, eBay
For the (numerous) user group talks I’ve been doing in the past few months, I’ve spent most of my time with one demo that shows three common eBay API calls — GeteBayOfficialTime (the “hello world” of eBay programming), AddItem, and GetSearchResults. Several people have asked me to make this demo available, so here you go:
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eBay Luvs Visual Basic Developers
April 27th, 2004 · No Comments · .NET, Web/Tech, eBay
Had a great time speaking in Redmond last night to the VB .NET user group on the Microsoft campus. Mister Robert Green, VB .NET evangelist extrordinaire, reminded me that my article on building an eBay search app using VB .NET is featured this week on the Visual Basic Developer Center. Cool!
I’m in the middle of [...]
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VSLive, Windows Mobile 2003 for the i700, Vacation
March 26th, 2004 · 2 Comments · .NET, Web/Tech, eBay
Had a great couple of days in the eBay Developers Program booth at VSLive this week. Most common comment we heard: “I didn’t even know eBay had a developer program.” (We’ll fix that.) My team is there today, so if you’re at the show, stop by the booth and say hi.
At the show I got [...]
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eBay SDK Article on OnDotNet.com
November 10th, 2003 · No Comments · .NET, Web/Tech
I’ve got an article up today on O’Reilly’s OnDotNet.com Web site. It’s on creating eBay applications using our SDK for .NET. It basically takes the tossed-off snippet I posted here back in September and explains it in more detail, building it out into a glorious explanation of how to list items and search on eBay [...]
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eBay SDK ‘hello world’ in C#
September 9th, 2003 · 1 Comment · .NET, Web/Tech, eBay
I figured that since I addressed one of the most remote edge cases of eBay API development the other day, I should close the loop by posting one of the most common cases (using the SDK with C#).
Using the SDK for Windows is cake compared to the API way (which takes about 100 lines of [...]
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