July 2007 Entries
Aside from the fact Houston has been getting a significant amount of rain this year, it seems that work and personal projects are also experiencing their share of challenges. I wanted to adjust the skin of my blog the day before yesterday and I wanted to try it out offline on a local installation. I also wanted to make a full backup of the database which served multiple purposes including being able to test changes locally. I had made a copy of the data previously using the SQL Server 2005 Export Data DTS mechanism, but it did not contain the...
I had to build a application to exercise and test several web services. I created a form for each web service and used text boxes, combo boxes, and date pickers to fill in properties for the class used in the web service parameters. Eventually I had several test forms and started with the common method of starting multiple forms: private void buttonTestUI01_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
TestUI01Form f = new TestUI01Form();
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Amidst all of the work right now there does not seem to be too much time to blog. Actually I've started about three other posts but I haven't had time to complete them yet. As if things aren't busy enough, I'm currently in the chorus of the musical Oklahoma!. I wanted to sit this musical out as I had been in a musical over the summer since 2001 and I was ready to let one pass me by. However I was eventually "roped" in and find myself performing yet again. We are using BizTalk in our current project as the...