The four people who actually read this blog might have been wondering where I had disappeared to, as it has been nearly 15 days since my last entry. I am alive, don't worry. Just busy. A couple .NET and personal things of interest:
- Two new FAQs up at DataWebControls.com:
- Returning Data in Random Order with NEWID(), and
- Making Select Rows in an Editable DataGrid Uneditable
- Finished up my second article on data structures. The first has yet to hit the C# Dev Center, but will hopefully make it up there sooner than later. Honestly, though, I'm not expecting it anytime soon, I think the MSDN guys are quite busy at the time getting ready for PDC. (I also have two articles written and ready for the ASP.NET Dev Center as well...)
- In the midst of coteaching a six-week course on Web Services Fundamentals. Finished the second week's lecture last night. The class has been going well, I think, there's two of us teaching. I think this gives students a nice view of things, as my coworker, Michele Leroux Bustamante, has a solid industry background and can provide a nice CIO/CTO perspective for the students, while I like to think I bring a developer-level perspective. Anywho, it's nice coteaching with someone, as the lectures are four hours long, so that's less talking, less material creation, and so on, for each instructor. :-)
- I have been using Jeff Key's Snippet Compiler often lately. It's a great tool if you need to run a snippet of code but don't want to go through the hassle of creating a Visual Studio .NET project. I find myself using it when I need to do a quick test on some code, or am interested in seeing the output of some example in the docs. The current version of Snippet Compiler is nice, it has IntelliSense, a nice GUI editor, templates for common code files, and so on. (Read a review of Snippet Compiler.)