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I am a software architect/developer with 9 years of experience developing scalable, enterprise level applications targeted for windows and the web. My software solutions are built using bleeding edge development languages and techniques. I am specialized in the latest Microsoft Technologies, with recent development experience with C# 3.0, ASP.NET 2.0/3.5 and SQL Server 2008. I work well in a team environment as well as individually. My extensive knowledge of the Software Life Cycle also helps me to manage my time and efforts to consistently meet or exceed project milestones.

Getting ActiveTabChanging Functionality from the AJAX TabControl

By Dave Marini | Published: January 4, 2010

I have always considered myself to be quite client-side challenged. Having been soured to the thought of JavaScript by all the browser specific code I used to have to write years ago I swore off it and took to server-side development and never looked back. After a year’s hiatus doing WPF programming, I’ve recently found [...]

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ObjectDataSource, SOA Style

By Dave Marini | Published: August 18, 2008

It’s been entirely too long since my last post, and with the olympics in full swing, we’ll go with a volleyball theme for this post. BUMP So here’s the scenario. After really digging your teeth into ASP.NET 2.0 and playing around wiih all the cool data access features, you decide to apply a liberal use [...]

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Metadata Exchange Using SvcUtil: A Cautionary Tale

By Dave Marini | Published: March 21, 2008

Technorati Tags: WCF,.NET,Windows Communication Foundation,SvcUtil One of the projects that I've been working on the past week is a conversion project that involves a web site that has a tightly coupled business logic layer. The goal of the project is to re-engineer the site so that the business logic and corresponding data access tiers are [...]

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Using Exchange Web Services 2007: The Basics

By Dave Marini | Published: March 20, 2008

Technorati Tags: C#,Exchange,.NET Exchange Web Services (EWS) for Microsoft Exchange 2007 provides a quick an easy way to interface with Exchange data from anywhere without having to interface with ugly COM interop objects if you’re living in a managed world like C#.  Today I was curious at how to get calendar appointments from Exchange into [...]

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Extending the GridView to Work With the New DataPager Control

By Dave Marini | Published: March 19, 2008

Technorati Tags: ASP.NET,C# Recently I read an article by Scott Mitchell about the new ListView and DataPager controls that are included in the .NET Framework version 3.5. This got me curious as to how to adapt other well known databound controls like the GridView so that they can work together with the DataPager control.  After [...]

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