A cool thing happened at work today.  Dean was stuck trying to figure out how to get the EditItem from an asp:Listview.  So he hits his favorite search engine to look for an answer.  Believe it or not, the first item in the search result was a link to a post on my blog!  Dean got his answer.  But I thought that was the coolest thing that he his answer could have come from anywhere in the world but he searched and got a post from the guy sitting right across from him!

Updated on12/19.  Infragistics has joined us as a Gold Partner

Wow, Code Camp 2008.1 is coming up fast.  It seems like we move from planning one Code Camp right into planning the next one.  We are busy lining up sponsors and speakers and I can report that both efforts are going very well.

First, a sponsors update.  Scroll down if you want to see the sessions that are planned.

We now have several levels of sponsorship.  Companies can contribute money to Philly.Net so we can pay for the expenses of running a Code Camp.  In addition, companies provide prizes and swag, and everyone likes that! Of course, this list is changing all the time.   All of these companies have been very generous in their support of Philly.Net.  If you get some time, check out their web sites/products. 

Announcement: The official email hasn't gone out yet but I'll let the cat out of the bag... Code Camp registration is now open on the Philly.Net site!

Platinum Partners:

Thanks to DeVry in Fort Washington, PA.  They'll be hosting our Code Camp.	We can always count on Microsoft's support throughout the year.

Gold Partners:

Silver Partners:

Other Partners:

Solid Quality Mentors

Other companies have pitched in to provide prizes for Code Camp.  Here's a list of who's signed up to help, so far:

Presentations:

We all come to Code Camp for the presentations.  Here is a list of some of the presentations that you'll get at Code Camp. This list is NOT complete and is subject to change, of course.   Keep an eye on the Code Camp site for the latest information.

Alt.NET
Brian Donahue - Panel Discussion
David Laribee - Fundamental Domain-Driven Design
Jeremy Jarrell - Decoupling Your Design - Dependency Injection with Windsor
Jeff Deville - ASP.NET MVC - A New Way To Build Web Apps 
Steve Eichert - Behavior Driven Development In Action:  The Evolution of TDD
Don Demsak - Design Patterns

Architecture
Mitch Ruebush -
Harish Bidad - BizTalk R2 BAM
Chip Lemmon - Entry Level Event Models
Tim Dodd - IIS 7
Sam Gentile - ESB/SOA

Business Intelligence
Dan Clark - Integrating SQL Server Reporting Service Reports in .NET Applications
Dan Hartshorn - Performance Point
Mark Scott -
Andy Leonard -

User Experience
Andy Schwam - ASP.NET Custom Controls
Jonathan Newell - Databinding ASP.NET
Bill Wolff - Silverlight 2.0 with Expression and Visual Studio 2008
John Juback - Real World Experiences with Silverlight
Eric Pascarello - Investigating JavaScript and Ajax Security
Susan Lennon - Using SharePoint Designer to build a dashboard-type view of lists

Frameworks
Marc Ziss -
Jim Bonnie - SubSonic as a Data Access layer for DotNetNuke
Rachel Appel - Exception Handling & Management Strategies
Kevin Goff - Crash Course on LINQ and VS2008 Language Enhancements

Collaboration
David Mann - Delivering Modular SharePoint Workflow Functionality via Components
Bob Fox - SharePoint Disaster Recovery, Backup and more…
Tony Testa - AJAX in SharePoint
Michael Lotter - InfoPath 2007 with Visual Studio 2008
Russ Basuira - Programming Composite Applications that use the SharePoint Business Data Catalog
Gary Blatt - Using OpenXML to Access Excel and other Office 2007 Files
Database
Sharon Dooley -
Ed Pochinski -
Joshua Lynn - SQL Server 2008 New feature: Change Data Capture
Reed Sutton -
Hilary Cotter -
Chuck Urwiler -
Toolbox
Mark Magliocco - FaceBook Developer Toolkit in .NET
Judy Calla - Visual Studio 2005
Travis LaBorde -
Rob Keiser - Powershell 2.0
Todd Snyder - Using Refactoring to hunt down code smells
Steve Andrews - Visual Studio 2008 Tools and Add-Ins

The new ListView control in ASP.Net is pretty cool.  It is really flexible and often makes life pretty easy for me.  But there is one thing that doesn't make sense to me.

It isn't simple to figure out which item is the "Edit Item" during databinding.  It isn't impossible, but it seems more complicated then I'd expect.  During ItemDataBound() you can test the item's type:

        if (e.Item.ItemType == ListViewItemType.DataItem)
        {
            //do something
        }

Remember that with a ListView, there are no rows, so we refer to Items. 

Unfortunately, the options for ListViewItemType only include DataItem, InsertItem, and EmptyItem.  All of those are helpful, but what about EditItem? So the next logical thing to do is use the ListView's EditIndex.  All I'd have to do is compare the current index to the EditIndex and I'll know if I'm on the edit item.  ListViewItemEventArgs has an Item property but there doesn't seem to be an Index or CurrentIndex property.  So the comparison won't be so easy.  We'll here it is, the way to figure it out:

    protected void ListView1_ItemDataBound(object sender, ListViewItemEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.Item.ItemType == ListViewItemType.DataItem)
        {
            ListViewDataItem dataItem = (ListViewDataItem)e.Item;

            if (dataItem.DisplayIndex == ListView1.EditIndex)
            {
                //do something
            }
        }
    }

I hope this information is helpful.

Wow, Code Camp 2008.1 is coming up fast.  It seems like we move from planning one Code Camp right into planning the next one.  We are busy lining up sponsors and speakers and I can report that both efforts are going very well.

First, a sponsors update.  Scroll down if you want to see the sessions that are planned.

We now have several levels of sponsorship.  Companies can contribute money to Philly.Net so we can pay for the expenses of running a Code Camp.  In addition, companies provide prizes and swag, and everyone likes that! Of course, this list is changing all the time.   All of these companies have been very generous in their support of Philly.Net.  If you get some time, check out their web sites/products. 

Announcement: The official email hasn't gone out yet but I'll let the cat out of the bag... Code Camp registration is now open on the Philly.Net site!

Platinum Partners:

Thanks to DeVry in Fort Washington, PA.  They'll be hosting our Code Camp.	We can always count on Microsoft's support throughout the year.

Gold Partners:

Silver Partners:

Other Partners:

Solid Quality Mentors

Other companies have pitched in to provide prizes for Code Camp.  Here's a list of who's signed up to help, so far:

Presentations:

We all come to Code Camp for the presentations.  Here is a list of some of the presentations that you'll get at Code Camp. This list is NOT complete and is subject to change, of course.   Keep an eye on the Code Camp site for the latest information.

Alt.NET
Brian Donahue - Panel Discussion
David Laribee - Fundamental Domain-Driven Design
Jeremy Jarrell - Decoupling Your Design - Dependency Injection with Windsor
Jeff Deville - ASP.NET MVC - A New Way To Build Web Apps 
Steve Eichert - Behavior Driven Development In Action:  The Evolution of TDD
Don Demsak - Design Patterns

Architecture
Mitch Ruebush -
Harish Bidad - BizTalk R2 BAM
Chip Lemmon - Entry Level Event Models
Tim Dodd - IIS 7
Sam Gentile - ESB/SOA

Business Intelligence
Dan Clark - Integrating SQL Server Reporting Service Reports in .NET Applications
Dan Hartshorn - Performance Point
Mark Scott -
Andy Leonard -

User Experience
Andy Schwam - ASP.NET Custom Controls
Jonathan Newell - Databinding ASP.NET
Bill Wolff - Silverlight 2.0 with Expression and Visual Studio 2008
John Juback - Real World Experiences with Silverlight
Eric Pascarello - Investigating JavaScript and Ajax Security
Susan Lennon - Using SharePoint Designer to build a dashboard-type view of lists

Frameworks
Marc Ziss -
Jim Bonnie - SubSonic as a Data Access layer for DotNetNuke
Rachel Appel - Exception Handling & Management Strategies
Kevin Goff - Crash Course on LINQ and VS2008 Language Enhancements

Collaboration
David Mann - Delivering Modular SharePoint Workflow Functionality via Components
Bob Fox - SharePoint Disaster Recovery, Backup and more…
Tony Testa - AJAX in SharePoint
Michael Lotter - InfoPath 2007 with Visual Studio 2008
Russ Basuira - Programming Composite Applications that use the SharePoint Business Data Catalog
Gary Blatt - Using OpenXML to Access Excel and other Office 2007 Files
Database
Sharon Dooley -
Ed Pochinski -
Joshua Lynn - SQL Server 2008 New feature: Change Data Capture
Reed Sutton -
Hilary Cotter -
Chuck Urwiler -
Toolbox
Mark Magliocco - FaceBook Developer Toolkit in .NET
Judy Calla - Visual Studio 2005
Travis LaBorde -
Rob Keiser - Powershell 2.0
Todd Snyder - Using Refactoring to hunt down code smells
Steve Andrews - Visual Studio 2008 Tools and Add-Ins

Don't forget that Code Camp is Saturday, January 12 at DeVry University in Fort Washington, PA.  I'm still working on prizes and contributions.  We've got some great companies pitching in to help already:

GOLD Level Contributors:
ComponentOne
Neudesic
RDA
Neudesic
Red Gate

SILVER Level Contributors:
SteelBlue Solutions

Inaddition, other companies have already promised to provide swag/prizes including:

• ComponentArt
• Dundas
• AddisonWesley/Sams
• Wrox

We are starting to line up speakers.  I think we already have around 30 presentation set.  If you are interested in Contributing or Speaking, please let us know.

Yesterday at Orbius we upgraded from Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 to RTM.  For the most part things went pretty well.  This isn't something we can do without a plan. We've been using VS2008 since May.  Our entire code base would need to migrate smoothly.  By the end of the day we were happily running VS2008 RTM! 

Things went pretty smoothly, but this was an interesting warning from the .Net Framework 3.5 installer.  It was good for a laugh and we were able to move past it.

One of the guys  migrated his laptop to RTM and compiled our VS2008 solution.  There weren't too many compiler errors, although we did have some problems with some of the LINQ code our projects.  I didn't get all of the specifics, but I think it had to do with the fact that we use our DataContexts in a very disconnected way.  We get data, pass it around, modify it and eventually update the database using a different DataContext. Anyway, he came up with a work around.   There might have been some other problems but I figure if he didn't mention them, they couldn't have been too bad.  He checked the solution into SVN.

Once running the solution (web application), this was a popular message:

An item placeholder must be specified on ListView 'membersView'. Specify an item placeholder by setting a control's ID property to "itemPlaceholder". The item placeholder control must also specify runat="server".

That is because they changed the ListView (the ListView rocks, by the way) a bit.  It used to be you could put ListView content in any old Server Control.  Now it must be within an asp:PlaceHolder. It's an easy change, although we have lots of ListViews in our Solution.  Luckily, Matt on our team made all those changes. That's about it.  I don't recall too many other issues.

When I upgraded my laptop to RTM it took a while.  We followed ScottGu's advice and completely uninstalled all Beta 2 applications and components first.  I uninstalled VS2008 Beta 2 and then followed the list of programs to uninstall (the list is in the links below).  Out of about 20 items on the list, I found about 7 that I needed to manually remove.  One catch...remember to uninstall accessories first (such as ReSharper and GhostDoc), just in case.  There were a few glitches that I wouldn't expect.  Such as a warning to close an application that was blocking the install - only the blocking application was the installer itself!   Dean got a similar warning while installing the .Net Framework 3.5 on our server and he gave me the image from the top of this post.

Here are some links that may help:

• ScottGu's Blog
• A VS Express Site
• Here's a site with some tips.

I'm happy to announce that RDA has signed on as a Gold Level Contributor for Code Camp 2008.1.  I don't think the Code Camp page is up on the Philly.Net site yet.  Meanwhile, you can get some details in this post.

I'm currently working on the details with some other companies and I'll have more information coming out soon.

Don't forget, we are still looking for Sponsors and Speakers!

I had a great time at the Central Penn .Net's Code Camp.  Judy and her team put together a great event.  I did my presentation on Creating Custom Server Controls.  The crowd out there was great.  They seemed really enthusiastic.  If you are interested in my code sample, you can get the VS 2005 solution file here (zipped).

We've scheduled our next Code Camp for January 12, 2008.  This time we're having it at DeVry University so we have room for many more people.  This could be Philly.Net's biggest and best code camp ever!  I've started working on contributors and prizes and Bill and Steve are rounding up the speakers.  We're planning to have 8 tracks running!  If you are interested in speaking, let us know and we'll put you on the schedule.  We'll have .Net, ASP.Net, SQL, Office, Sharepoint, Alt.Net and more.

I am proud to announce that we have our first Silver Level Contributor lined up.  Thanks to SteelBlue Solutions.  Miguel Castro, a very popular speaker (and Microsoft MVP) makes a cool code generator named CodeBreeze...check it out.  Other companies lining up to contribute and I'll have more information soon.  Let me know if you are interested in Contributing money or prizes.

Other Events:

Silverlight Firestarter:  Dani Diaz is putting together a Microsoft event on December 15th.  It's a full day of designing and developing with Microsoft Silverlight. And if you have a lot of energy, stick around because at 5:30PM they are having an XBOX party!  Register here.

VS 2008 Install Fest:  Sorry for the late announcement, this one is Tomorrow (Dec. 4).  Come to the Microsoft Malvern office and install a copy of VS 2008.  If you do, you'll get a free license.  Pretty sweet.  But you've got to be registered.