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bfonacier — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:07:27 +0000

Office Online 2007

bfonacier — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:28:54 +0000

I recently run into the link for the new Office Live:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/FX100649541033.aspx

In addition, here are useful links to Windows Live

SharePoint dev tip

bfonacier — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:37:05 +0000

Recently, I came accross some link from Microsoft that may help other SharePoint developer get up to speed. Here it is…

Enjoy the exploration!

Silverlight v3 Toolkit

bfonacier — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:14:03 +0000

I found a great tool for Silverligth 3 at codeplex. It provides a working example of silverlight 3 components. It will definitly shorten the learning curve when it comes to quickly implementing a webpage. Here is the link.

In addition, I found a great new content to get started on the Silverlight toolkit. I hope this helps.

Happy coding…

M-V-VM

bfonacier — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:03:12 +0000

Yesterday (1/31/09), I attended www.baynetug.org education event held at Hewlett Packard, Cupertino. I attended by volunteering to bring the breakfast from Noah’s Bagels.

I learned a lot about Model View ViewModel (M-V-VM) framework. This is a new Model View Controler framwork coming out of Microsoft. I hope to dive into this new technology that can enhance my productivity as a developer. The M-V-VM ties the best practices in WPF, .NET, Silverlight, etc.

For more information, go to http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com/mvvm/. Download the mvvm.

Click here for more…

2008 Fonacier Family Reunion

bfonacier — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:08:55 +0000

Sky Diving

bfonacier — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:24:12 +0000

San Francisco Bay Cruise

bfonacier — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:22:31 +0000

Linkedin Profile

bfonacier — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:02:44 +0000

If you are a member of Linkedin, you can create a button that goes back to your linkedin profile.

http://www.linkedin.com/profile?promoteProfile

I just found out how to do it and I needed to save the address someplace.

MSDN Magazine article

bfonacier — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:53:18 +0000

This months MSDN article (April 2008) is very interesting. The article is on page 99, titled “Test Run Testing SQL Stored Procedures Using LINQ,” by Dr. James Mccaffrey. It peaked my interest because I’ve been looking for a sample test harness for LINQ and stored procedures.

I downloaded the sample code at msdn2.microsoft.com/magazine/cc13511. Installed it on my Visual Studio 2008 Pro and tried to run it out of the box. Well, it did not run. It could not connect to the database. So, I looked for the sql script somewhere in the installed files and found it. I was also missing the SQL Server Management Studio Express, so I had to install it to run the sql script. After running the sql script the test run code still does not run because it could not connect to the database. So, I manually connect the database through Visual Studio. It still would not connect. I discovered that my manual connection string is not the same as the code so I went ahead and replace it:

string connString = “server=.\\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=dbMovies;Integrated Security=True”;

Well, the code runs as expected after replacing the connection string. So, I just want to put this blog post out there for other folks that are going to blaze the same path to save them some time. I also sent a note to the author.

Regards,

Bennett