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Enterprise Architecture: Principles and Patterns

I just finished reading Dino Esposito and Andrea Saltarelo’s book Microsoft .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise. This is a great book and a must read for anyone who is architecting enterprise grade solutions on the Microsoft development platform. The book is not strictly technology specific and includes a lot of general purpose information on […]

Extension Methods as a Form of Multiple Inheritance – Pros and Cons

Extension methods in C# provide a mechanism for adding functionality to a class when you do not control the source code to that class. Most often, extension methods are used as a means of syntactically treating external utility methods as though they were methods on the class itself. In this use, the main difference between […]

The LookupWithPicker is not just for Lookup Fields

I recently had a client requirement to associate documents and pages within SharePoint to specific pages.The client wanted to associate the documents / pages through metadata. After thinking about this for a while I remembered the lookup with picker control on CodePlex. The picker control on CodePlex was designed to work with lookup fields and […]

Access is Denied During stsadm restore

I was recently trying to restore an environment at a client site and kept getting access is denied. This baffled me because the account I was using had the proper database permissions to perform the task at hand and is a local admin on the server. The user is the account that I was used […]

Connecting to FoxPro 9.0 Tables in 64-bit SSIS 2008 (long live FoxPro!)

OK. OK. We here at Perficient don’t always work with bleeding edge technology. And who can resist a chance to blog about FoxPro! I’ve recently been working on converting some DTS packages to SSIS and ran across a strange issue with the OLE DB provider for Visual FoxPro 9.0. Long story short, I created a […]

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