Jonas Stawski

Here's the code and presentation for the WCF and WAS session that I gave at the South West Florida Code Camp this past weekend. Although I couldn't stay until the end, the event was really good. A special thanks to John Dunagan for putting the event ... [More]

Being an MVP made me realize that Microsoft really listens to their customers. Of course you don't need to be an MVP to be able to communicate with Microsoft regarding bugs or future enhancements. Anyone can use the Microsoft Connect site and to do s... [More]

My good old friend John Dunagan from the Naples .Net Developer Group has organized the 2008 South West Florida Code Camp. There is a line up of impressive speakers ranging from amazing speakers to MVPs to Microsoft employees. I will be presenting my ... [More]

Take into consideration the following entity: public class CompositeType { public bool BoolValue { get; set; } public string StringValue { get; set; } public EnumType VehicleType { get; set; } ... [More]

Be very careful when you need to recreate your entities with Linq to SQL. If I added a new column to the table and I needed to refresh my entity I used to remove it from the design and re add it again. This has worked for a while until now when all o... [More]

I've been trying to be more green oriented for a while now. You can find some proof of that through my Tech Green Initiative posts here and here. Before, when I wasn't cautious about the environment, I used to throw my old batteries in the garbage. N... [More]

Both the Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 are now available for download here and here respectively. They are really not a normal Service Pack as they not only fix bugs, but they also add a lot of new features that are not rel... [More]

When you use DataReaders you have to check for DBNull.Value on every field that could have a possible null value to make sure you don't get an exception. Therefore your code ends up having a lot of these: if (dr["Colunm1"] != DBNull.Value) ... [More]

The other day I started the Tech Green Initiative and I want to continue pushing it. I had someone tell me he didn't know you can recycle the printer cartridges so in that sense I made at least one person aware of something green. The other day they ... [More]

Randy Pausch, a Computer Science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, died 5 days ago after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The reason why I'm blogging this is not because he died, but because of his inspirational last lecture:   ... [More]