Finished the MCAD.NET

I passed my 70-320 Web Services exam and achieved my MCAD today! It's my goal to take the security and solutions framework over the next few weeks and finish the MCSD

Winforms exam down! 3 to go!!!

I passed my WinForms MCSD exam today! Woo hoo!!! 3 more exams to go to complete my MCSD.

SQL Server 2005 Training

I went to Columbus, OH to learn what I don't already know about SQL Server 2005 last week. I was really excited to go because I wanted to see some real examples of using the SQL Service broker and experiment with a mentor doing CLR and XML stuff in SQL. Unfortunately, the hands-on training was just having a laptop and a book that told me exactly what to type in and monitor the result--of which I grew quickly weary.

The training would have been better if it didn't say it was hands on, because I thought I'd get to do a bit of problem solving. I also didn't feel like there was a real explanation of where one could use SQL Service broker other than using the SqlDependency object. Now I can think of a few others, but I didn't learn enough to gauge whether my thought process is correct.

Finishing Commerce Server site

I'm finishing up another Commerce Server site this week. I had the worst DTC issues because the client is using a firewall that isn't allowing Commerce Server's DCOM components to create transactions. So a call to Basket.SaveAsOrder caused the application to fail.

Finally, I decided to rewrite the base functionality of the SaveAsOrder function storing the order in the Order* tables using only SQL transactions. In doing so, I am sure to lose some functionality with the OrderGroup object in the future, but at least I'll have the order stored in Commerce Server.

Oh well, it's going to be over soon.