Jan Tielens' Bloggings

My (free) ExtendedDataGrid control gets quite some attention and every developer knows that the more people use your software the more bugs will be reported. To organize bug reporting, feedback, feature requests, ... I've created a GotDotNet Workspace: http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/extendeddatagrid. So if you have something to say about this control; please use the workspace.

Global Name Registry announced:

The free ExtendedDataGrid provides a framework to easily add virtually any UserControl to a DataGrid cell! It comes down to creating a custom control by inheriting from the ExtendedDataGridControl and implementing the desired functionality. Then this custom control can be added to the ExtendedDataGridControlColumn so in each cell your control will be rendered. All of this can be done by using the default Visual Studio.NET designers.

Yesterday I added two new ColumnStyles to the ExtendedDataGrid:

The default System.Windows.Forms.DataGrid provided by the .NET Framework is a little bit limited in functionality. Therefore I've spent some time during my holidays building an extension to this default grid: the ExtendedDataGrid. At this point I've released a Beta version: 0.1 including these features:

It seems that not everybody has a day-off; the MSDN Belux team published my new article: Getting Started with ObjectSpaces, thanks Tom! This article starts with a description of what Object/Relational Mapping tools are, or at least I tried to explain it as clearly as possible. After that the article provides a step-by-step guide to a first ObjectSpaces article using the Mapper Utility. Topics like Spanning, Delay Loading, OPath are explained too. At the end there are some intresting links regarding ObjectSpaces, I'll post them here:

Some time ago I started to explore InfoPath, so far it was a pleasant journey. Everbody (including myself) seems to be requesting an user-control version of InfoPath so you can have InfoPath forms in your own Smart Client applications. This would be really great, top of the bill would be integration in Visual Studio.NET, but maybe that's a little bit too wishfull-thinking. Another nice feature would be a free version of InfoPath, without the functionality to create and edit forms. Like there is a free Acrobat Reader and a commercial Acrobat Writer. Microsoft says it's hearing these requests, but has anyone already an idea if these features will be available?

Now that ScottW has updated the .Text blog engine, it’s possible to post stuff that doesn’t appear in the weblogs.asp.net main feed. So I can post some more personal things, or things that are only appropriate for Belgian people (who all check the Belgian .NET Bloggers Aggregated Feed of course :-).