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Enabling Remote SQL Express 2008 Network Connections on Vista
17 September 08 07:30 PM
Today I spent way too long trying to enable remote network connections on my SQL 2008 Express database running on my Vista development machine so I thought I'd post the steps here. Please note that these settings may NOT be appropriate for your production Read More...
Postedby Beth Massi | 4 Comments    
Resizing Images Stored in SQL-Server
28 August 07 11:35 AM
In SQL-Server we can store images inside database tables directly using the Image column type. And with .NET 2.0 data binding it can automatically convert these images (stored as byte arrays) into System.Drawing.Image classes for you. For instance, say Read More...
Postedby Beth Massi | 21 Comments    
Attachment(s):PictureResizing.zip
Building a Secure Login Form (Parameterized Queries Part 2)
06 June 07 10:48 PM
In my first post on parameterized queries I built a simple login form that really was a contrived example meant to showcase how to use the TableAdapter Configuration Wizard to configure a parameterized query. However, since I opened myself up here, I Read More...
Postedby Beth Massi | 24 Comments    
Attachment(s):LoginClient.zip
Working with a Local Data File in VS
29 May 07 05:23 PM
Visual Studio 2005 made some big improvements in the way applications work with data, from BindingSources to the Data Sources Window all the way to a free version of SQL-Server called SQL-Server Express . I've had a few customers get stuck on using SQL-Server Read More...
Postedby Beth Massi | 16 Comments    
Reading from a Serial Port and Saving to a Database
05 May 07 09:14 AM
Recently I was sent a question about how to read from a serial port and save the information to a database so instead of following up privately I thought I'd post my answer here. There's a good article in the MSDN Library that has some hints on how to Read More...
Postedby Beth Massi | 6 Comments    
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