I haven't been blogging much lately due to being busy at work and studying to take the 70-300 again. Wednesday night I went to the boston .net user group meeting, if you want to read a good write up about it, check out Chris Pels entry about it (I think he writes better than I do anyways)
Other than studying I have also been working on DownStream. Since my last update I have done the following:
- Added the Move method to either move a file to the database or save a file to the file system from the database
- Created a Console application demo - currently only utilizes the Move functionality
- Abstracted the DBService class into the Provider pattern See Rob Howard's new article on MSDN
- Created stored procedure sql (in data directory of source) to create the stored procedures to do the database work
- Wrote 2 providers - original hardcoded SQL in the class provider and another one that uses the stored procedures
- Created a handy little method that looks up the mime type (or content type) in the registry from the given file extension (which now means in order to move a file into the database it requires read access to the registry - I will probably add a little lookup table of mime types to use if the code doesn't have read access to the registry later)
Download the DownStream source code and demos
I have also started a document that better describes what DownStream is, how to use it and how it works...just haven't had time to finish it yet. Hoping to take the exam next Friday, then besides the wedding stuff (almost a 4 weeks away) I should have some free time to finish some of these documents I have been wanting to write PLUS get back to my C++ (only been covering about 3 - 4 chapters a week).
Some friends and I are getting together at 1pm today to got to the Harpoon brewery, should be fun...I'll let you know;)