A recent problem I had was to bind the SelectedItem from a master datagrid, to the ItemsSource of a child datagrid. My work around’s using mouse clicks had too many limitations when used with MVVM – delete the selected item from the parent collection, the child collection did not update. Whilst watching John Papas PDC... Continue Reading →

December 9, 2009 1

Debugging SQL2005 Stored Procedures from VS2008

Yesterday I was having great success debugging T-SQL SP’s from VS2008 to a local developer SQL server. This was easy to do: Enable SQL debugging in all my VS2008 projects (all of them was probably overkill, but it works)Turn-off the local windows firewall (again overkill, but it works)Create a connection to a databaseRight click the... Continue Reading →

October 28, 2009 0

Determining Users in an AD Group

From a command line (on the AD server) you can use this to get the members of a group: 1: dsquery group -name "Group Account Name" | dsget group -membersAdditionally a command line exe to get the groups for the logged in member too, something like this: 1: My.User.InitializeWithWindowsUser() 2: 3: Dim identity As System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity... Continue Reading →

August 21, 2009 0