Archive for July, 2008

How to create a WinForms MDI application? - part 3

This is the third post in the series. The second one post describes Business Logic Layer (BLL) of the application. BLL contains two types of classes entities and managers. Here, an entity class contains the information of a business object retrieved from database but it is not equal or the same to those object generated [...]

DllImportAttribute - anonymous usage not allowed error

Today, I ran into a strange error
error C3094: ‘System::Runtime::InteropServices::DllImportAttribute’: anonymous usage not allowed
and why this error is strange for me? I had an old dll written in managed C++ which imports a method from user32.dll. Initially, this Dll is written using VS 2005 with .Net Framwork 2.0. An the time of development and using it [...]

How to create a WinForms MDI application? - part 2

This is the second post in the series. In the first one I wrote an overview of the sample application. In two words it will be three layer application which will serve a car service. I also present database scheme and Data Access Layer (DAL) of the sample application. The database consists of two tables [...]

How to create a WinForms MDI application? - part 1

This is the first post of several posts which will describe my idea of building a non-complex application based on WinForms MDI model. This application will consist of three layers Data Access Layer, Business Logic Layer and UI Layer which is the end application. I’ll use latest Microsoft technologies to develop it .Net 3.5, LINQ, [...]

Deployment and configuration of wordpress blog engine (continue)

I still continue configuring my theme and trying different plug-ins and I continue to share my impressions. The last what I’ve changed on the theme is the way title is generated and I add a tool-tip for home link. These are small changes with no any special effect. Next I found some new plug-ins which [...]

Wordpress compatible plugin for setting post rates

Yesterday, I searched for a plug-in which will provide me a easy functionality to allow my blog posts readers to rate posts. I found several rate plugins but one I really found great. It is WP-PostRatings by Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan. I can describe it in few words - easy to install, well documented different types [...]