If you followed my Oracle Express installation guide, you are probably wondering how to connect to the Oracle database from inside our favorite IDE, Visual Studio. Not being one to exclude a group of developers as big as the .NET crowd, Oracle created a set of tools specifically aimed at making it e... [More]

I ran into this error today when trying to connect to Oracle from within Visual Studio Server Explorer after installing the Oracle Data Access Components, which includes the Oracle Data Providers for .NET. A cursory search of Google yielded no answers, so I was left scratching my head for a few m... [More]

In this Weekly Tool Tip, I want to take another look at the features provided in .NET Reflector. Last week I gave a quick introduction to Reflector, and this week I want to show you how to manage your assembly lists with the tool. If you recall, Reflector allows you to explore, browse and analyze a... [More]

C# delegates are fun to use. They let you encapsulate a bit of logic in a nice, neat little object that behaves like a method. All you have to do is declare the signature of the method that the delegate can reference without having to specify the actual method itself. This allows you to define how a... [More]

As a .NET developer most of my experience in Database Land has been with Microsoft SQL Server. However, I started a new job two weeks ago and the project on which I'm working uses Oracle as a backend. It has been somewhat painful to make the switch, but I'm confident that the payoff will be worth th... [More]

I like the client-side functionality of Telerik’s RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX. I especially like having the ability to select a row in the grid with a single click of the mouse, much more so than having to use a checkbox or select button. Clicking the row itself seems to me like a more natural wa... [More]

I hate this error. No seriously, I HATE this error. It happens from time to time, usually when trying to use any 3rd-party components in your Visual Studio toolbox. That means if you are using the Ajax Control Toolkit, Telerik controls, or any other set of components that didn’t come as part... [More]

I’m a big fan of developer tools. In fact, without the right tools our lives as software developers would be much more frustrating and less productive. So I’d like to start a weekly series of posts in which I’ll provide give a tip or two on how to get the most out of our developmen... [More]

When creating a server control from scratch you must implement the IPostBackEventHandler interface if you want the control to handle postback events. If you’re extending an existing control and the control already implements this interface, then you simply need to override the IPostBackEventHa... [More]

When it comes to web services, there are no shortage of options for .NET developers. And with performance expectations continuing to rise, web services are becoming an integral part of our web applications. They allow developers to transfer the bare minimum of data from server to client, leaving UI ... [More]