Just finished ADO.NET & Controls chapters, Advanced .NET Framework Topics is next! ADO.NET has a ton of stuff to it. Good thing I have an entire book on it since the 100 pages of the cert book seemed to s to creating SMART applications. ADO.NET gives the developer tons of power when it comes to [...]
January 31, 2004
Started doing some research/hacking for the TCAM project and ended up writing a little Windows Forms application in C# that monitors all C:\ drive activity and shows it to the user. The name of the project is WinWatch. Well I found this to be a handy little tool to find out why out of nowhere [...]
January 29, 2004
TCAM which stands for TAVIN CAM started with a need to monitor my girlfriends business that she owns located in NW Portland called TAVIN. Tavin is one of my biggest customers and most demanding . Started of by purchasing the DLINK DCS-2000 IP Camera. There are many IP camera’s out there today. I decided on [...]
January 22, 2004
In chapter 4 we start to get into some of the more fun items. Of course we had our standard chapter in Object-Oriented Programming and then continued discussions on Ploymorphism, Inheritance, Overloading, Interfaces and touched a little on collections. The lab was a enjoyable. It was a continuation of the Fraction application from Chapter 3. [...]
January 14, 2004
Well this lab was a small simple one there was a typo in the book for the code so be sure to check out the source CD for the correct syntax. This is basically a Windows Form that takes the text field inputs and instantiates the Fraction object to return your fraction as a string [...]
January 11, 2004
Finished Chapter 3 this week. Some very interesting ways of doing things compared to Java. Topics covered: * Data Types * Constants, Enums, Arrays and Collections * Implementing Properties * Implementing Delegates and Events * Lab: Adding Components and Implementing Members * Lab: Creating a Class In the Lab you continue to add functionality to [...]
January 7, 2004
Well I decided to get my Microsoft Certification. I will probably start with MCAD – Microsoft Certrified Application Developer and move on from there if time permits. I am starting with Exam 70-316 Developing Windows-Based Application with Microsoft Visual C# .NET I got the book from Microsoft Press and have just started working through it. [...]
January 3, 2004
Just wanted to make sure my image upload was working correctly and thought it would be the pefect opportunity to show off a great new site for icons. The site is Foood’s Icons and has some great free icons and help on creating your own. Just take a look at a sample:
January 3, 2004
Not sure if it isn’t good ‘Blogging’ protocol to have images in your blogs, but for some reason .Text didn’t have the ability to upload and put images in your blog entries. Well not being much for following the rules I went on the search to find out how to add this functionality. First the [...]
January 3, 2004
Well I created my new site today. The focus will be software engineering. I utilized the .Text Weblog from Scott Water. It is a very nice piece of software and I had fun tweeking it. You can find more info about the .Text Weblog at http://dottextwiki.scottwater.com/
February 12, 2004