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I recently blogged about the Facebook Graph API and if you have the Facebook C# SDK you can start making applications. After I had my Facebook app set up, I started making a C# Console application to just get my friends and see what I could do. Here is a snippet to get my friends [...]

Lazy Sunday afternoon, so I decided to dig a bit into the Facebook Graph API. What is the FB Graph API? Well it allows you to create an application and use OAuth to connect and then get information about yourself and your friends and do things in Facebook using JSON objects and requests. Easy way [...]

I have been reading about Microsoft’s PivotViewer lately, and decided to try to get it going for myself. What is PivotViewer? Think of it as visual data slicing through a web page. What you do is take some data, and then tie records to images, and then publish out your “collection” and you can consume [...]

Sometimes you have some pretty complex ETL’s going in SSIS, and you might have multiple projects/solutions that need to call other SSIS Packages or SQL Agent Jobs and you have a pretty big production going on. You might have an ETL solution that needs to kick off other packages, and you can either import those [...]

I manage some servers that have many cubes. OK, a lot of cubes (60+ on one). I needed some way to output a report of last processed time, last schema update, etc. Now, there are about 5 different ways to do this (one being the SSAS Stored Procedure Project), but this is what I came [...]

C# 3.0 and .NET 3.5 are out and ready for consumption, and I have been using some of the new features. One of the new features, Extension Methods, is really cool and can help you consolidate and reuse your code in a logical manner. Take for example, System.Data.DataSet – there is always something I do [...]

As of late I have been stuck in C++ world. MFC/Win32, pointers and HRESULT’s. Ugh. Earlier this week I got a chance to get back to C# and .NET (aka My Roots). I needed to create a class library for a project, basically from scratch, since there was no existing library created. I started to [...]

Sometimes you want to grab a file posted to a page, maybe an image upload or other file upload HttpFileCollection logFiles = Request.Files; string path = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["LogPath"]; if (logFiles.Count > 0) { HttpPostedFile logFile = logFiles.Get(0); logFile.SaveAs(path + System.Guid.NewGuid().ToString() + “.log”); } As you can see, I am setting the log path from the config. [...]

if you want to use the secure version rand_s() – be careful, it only works on XP and higher!! http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/sxtz2fa8(VS.80).aspx Guess you don’t get to be secure on Windows 2000 or lower. :P