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Passing Session Data down through the Tiers

So here's a conundrum that my customer and I worked through yesterday. We have an ASP.NET site, with a user id retrieved from wherever and carried about in the Session for general-purpose use to identify each of our users. In our data layer, we have an Read More...

Posted Friday, March 31, 2006 8:16 PM by adamhems | 0 Comments

Connecting to SQL Server on a non-default Port

Here's a little tid-bit that threw me today. How to connect to SQL Server (using SQL Management Studio), if that SQL Server is not running on the default port (1433)? I was actually trying to register an instance of SQL Server 2000 (the same would apply Read More...

Posted Thursday, March 23, 2006 7:34 PM by adamhems | 0 Comments

If you are unable to select a block of text in IE 6...

We hit an interesting conundrum yesterday which had me stumped for a while; an erstwhile colleague solved the problem in the end and I thought I'd just share it in case anybody else runs into this. One of the test users on the ASP.NET 2.0 web site we Read More...

Posted Friday, March 17, 2006 2:14 AM by adamhems | 0 Comments

.NetTiers: Avoiding Typing Boring Code

Perhaps, like me, you often perform the role of .NET developer and you hate typing boring code. One example of really boring code is all the stuff you have to type in order to make a nice Business Object Layer, so you don't have any ugly database stuff Read More...

Posted Thursday, March 02, 2006 10:38 PM by adamhems | 2 Comments

Adventures with VS2005 Team Test Load Agent And Controller

I've been using VS2005 Team Test on an ASP.NET project I am currently on to hammer the code we've built and identify weak spots. One of the things it will do is simulate multiple users browsing a site ( very much easier to do than with ACT - and using Read More...

Posted Wednesday, March 01, 2006 9:32 PM by adamhems | 1 Comments