New Year More Blog Entries To Come
Feb
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2/3/2010 10:11 AM
Happy New Year Everyone!
The blog had a little accident - user error - and has been out of commission since before Christmas. However, it's back on track now! The new year has brought a flurry of activity. Development continues on Diel Tool's new site. This has been a great opportunity to become familiar with Language Integrated Query (LINQ) and the LINQ to Entity query syntax. My biggest stumbling point here is binding my search results to the listview. I'll post further details on how I accomplished this under separate cover.
RecycleMyStuff - I've been engaged to revise this site to ASP.NET 3.5. It was started by another coder, abandoned and will be refactored using the latest and greatest bits the newest framework version has to offer.
Reporting Services - I am learning more about optimizing report objects. In a recent training session, I found out that it's better to create sprocs (stored procedures) to gather the data for the report, and reference the sproc in the report object. This allows the database engine to do the heavy lifting and permits the report server to just render the report. I have big plans to deploy reports to Sharepoint and am slated to learn more about that functionality next week.
Have a great rest of the week! I'll check in with more updates, musings, and hopefully useful nuggets next week.