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Working with Active Directory in .NET 3.5

Many projects that I’ve worked on over the years have required some kind of interface with Active Directory. Back in the good ol’ ASP days, there was ADSI (Active Directory Services Interface), and .NET uses the System.DirectoryServices namespace to essentially wrap ADSI with managed code. It’s been...

Posted to Jedi Meditations (Weblog) by Andre Perusse on 11-07-2008
HTC Touch As An iPhone Replacement

In January of this year (2008), I was getting the itch to buy something to replace both my cell phone and my Palm PDA (I used the Palm as my MP3 player). I wanted an all-in-one solution so I wouldn't have to carry around two pieces of technology with me. Being the geek that I am, I was naturally...

Posted to Jedi Meditations (Weblog) by Andre Perusse on 08-17-2008
On The Edge (and falling off a cliff)

UPDATE (Feb. 19, 2008): If you're too busy to read the book, take a look at this 8 minute video - it gives a pretty decent summary! Ars Technica recently began running a series on the history of the Amiga, my favourite computer of all time. From the comments posted to this series I discovered that...

Posted to Jedi Meditations (Weblog) by Andre Perusse on 01-06-2008
Rules for Checking In Code to Source Control

The golden rule of checking in code is: Don't check in code that will break the build. Nobody likes code that won't compile. Also see Scott Hanselman's First Rule of Software Development . In order to help verify that your pending check-in will continue to result in a healthy build, you may...

Posted to Jedi Meditations (Weblog) by Andre Perusse on 11-14-2007
XBox 360 Fun

I had been holding off buying an XBox 360 since I'm really not that much of a gamer and when I do play I totally suck anyway. For us non-gamer types, the XBox Live Marketplace sounds interesting since it offers high-definition movies, but alas as a Canadian I am deprived of such a useful feature...

Posted to Jedi Meditations (Weblog) by Andre Perusse on 09-28-2007
SQL Server 2005 Syntax Incompatible with SQL Server 2000

On a recent project we use SQL Server 2005 for development but the product officially supports installation on both SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2000. During development we'll create tables in the database (using SQL 2005) using the GUI tools in either Visual Studio or Management Studio. When it...

Posted to Jedi Meditations (Weblog) by Andre Perusse on 09-26-2007
A Cool ASP.NET 2.0 Feature (Well, Almost)

Whenever I start a new web project, one of the first things I do is create a "Base" class for all my ASPX code-beside ( "code-behind" is so .NET 1.1 ) class declarations to inherit from. This makes it easy to have useful properties such as CurrentUser available in all pages automatically. Such a practice...

Posted to Jedi Meditations (Weblog) by Andre Perusse on 06-17-2007
Making Reporting Services Work On Vista (64-bit)

A couple of weeks ago I got a new laptop (that went along with my new job) and at the urging of some on my co-workers (and against my better judgement) I installed Vista Enterprise 64-bit on it. And that's another story all together. I also installed SQL Server 2005 (64-bit, naturally) and after fighting...

Posted to Jedi Meditations (Weblog) by Andre Perusse on 06-14-2007
Microsoft Adds Powerful Tool For Database Developers

I've been dying to try out Microsoft's latest addition to the Visual Studio Team Suite set of products - Data Dude, or more properly know as Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals . Recently I finally took some time to watch a series of webcasts (at 1.5x speed - the only way to learn...

Posted to Jedi Meditations (Weblog) by Andre Perusse on 04-08-2007
Bitten By Windows Genuine Advantage

Last weekend I was home doing some paperwork and I had to send a fax to my insurance agent. I hadn't sent a fax in several months and not since I had reimaged my computer with Vista and Office 2007. So I opened Word and looked in the templates for a fax cover page. Word ships with several templates as...

Posted to Jedi Meditations (Weblog) by Andre Perusse on 03-01-2007

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