All Things Microsoft AI

Virtual User Group Meetings Jan 29: OWASP Cleveland Chapter ( https://www.meetup.com/owasp-cleveland-group/events/275751911/ ) Feb 2: ONDT ( https://www.meetup.com/ohio-north-database-training/events/275862156/ ) Feb 17: Hudson Software Craftsmanship ( https://www.meetup.com/Hudson-Software-Craftsmanship-Meetup/ ) Feb 18: GLUG.Net: ( https://www.meetup.com/GLUGnet/events/lnbmpryccdbxb/ ) Feb 25: Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group ( https://www.meetup.com/GLUGnet/events/ )   Virtual Conferences Feb 17: Developer Week 2021 ( https://www.developerweek.com/ ) Feb 25: .Net Conf ( focus.dotnetconf.net ) Feb 27: Data Saturday ( https://datasaturdays.com/events/datasaturday0001.html )  

The Global AI Bootcamp is a free one-day event organized across the world by local communities that are passionate about artificial intelligence on Microsoft Azure. It takes place on January 15-16th, 2021 with venues on every continent. The event is a perfect balance of quality content, awesome talks, and hands-on learning with like-minded peers in your community.  Currently, there are 4 events happening in the US in different time zones.    Las Vegas, NV: https://globalai.community/global-ai-bootcamp-2020/united-states-las-vegas Plano, TX: https://globalai.community/global-ai-bootcamp-2020/usa-plano-tx-1 Des Moines, IA: https://globalai.community/global-ai-bootcamp-2020/usa-des-moines Raleigh, NC: https://globalai.community/global-ai-bootcamp-2020/united-states-raleigh   Find the one that best suits you or choose another event elsewhere in the world.  To see a full list of all events, please visit https://globalai.community/gl...

Virtual User Group Meetings Dec 15: The JavaScript Club ( https://www.meetup.com/thejavascriptclub/events/274882089/ ) Dec 16: We Can Code IT ( https://www.meetup.com/WeCanCodeIT/events/274968946/ ) Dec 17: GLUG.Net: ( https://www.meetup.com/GLUGnet/events/ ) Jan 20: Hudson Software Craftsmanship ( https://www.meetup.com/Hudson-Software-Craftsmanship-Meetup/ ) Jan 28: Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group ( https://www.meetup.com/GLUGnet/events/ )   Virtual Conferences Dec 19: SQL Saturday- Lagos ( https://www.sqlsaturday.com/1008/ )    

A situation came up where a Windows Forms application required 2 combo boxes filled with customer IDs.  A caption of that form is shown below, where a user must select “From Customer ID” and “To Customer ID”.  Since both combo boxes were populated from the same data column, the natural thing to do was to use the same code for filling both with the same data.  However, this caused an undesirable effect.  When the user selected the “From Customer ID”, the “To Customer ID” was automatically populated with the same value.    To resolve this problem, 2 separate DataTable objects must be used, dtFrom and dtTo.  Although both objects are populated using the same method (dm.GetCustomerIDNames()), keeping the objects separate will prevent one control selection from effecting the other control.  See sample code shown below.               p...

Virtual User Group Meetings Sep 29: .Net Virtual User Group - “VS/Code Hidden Gems” https://www.meetup.com/dotnet-virtual-user-group/events/ Oct 15: Akron AITP User Group – “Enterprise Architecture in the Cloud” https://www.meetup.com/AkronAITP/events/ Oct 21: Hudson Software Craftsmanship - “Crafting Better Software” https://www.meetup.com/Hudson-Software-Craftsmanship-Meetup/ Oct 22: Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group - “Multi-Model Databases in Azure SQL” https://www.meetup.com/Cleveland-C-VB-Net-User-Group/   Virtual Conferences Sep 26: Northern Virginia Code Camp https://novacodecamp.org/index.html Oct 3: SQL Saturday-Memphis https://www.sqlsaturday.com/1003/ Oct 24: SQL Saturday-Oregon https://www.sqlsaturday.com/1000/  

Listed below is an example of using Sorting and Filtering on ADO objects.  This examples utilizes an Oracle DB, but ADO objects can be used with various databases.  In this situation, the entire data table is retrieved in memory.  When needed, that data table can be sorted using a specific column or filtered using the SELECT method with the specified predicate.           public void ProcesssData()         { //Retrieve entire data table into memory gPOLines = RGNdm.GetLineNumsByPO(PO);  //Create a VIEW from the in-memory data table var newView = gPOLines.DefaultView.ToTable(false, "PART_ID", "PO_NUMBER", "CREATE_DATE", "VENDOR_NAME", "INITIATED_BY"); //SORT by desired field gPOLines.DefaultView.Sort = " PART_ID ASC ";   //SELECT (filter) for specific criteria                 DataRow[] filte...

Handling exceptions is a critical task in any application.  When an exception is logged, it needs to have sufficient detail so it can be researched at a later time.  In addition, as a developer, you want to extract and log as much detail about it as possible.  Some of those details include the file name and line number where the exception occurred.  Listed below is a method that handles exceptions, extracts the message, file name, and line number for logging.             private void ProcessEx(Exception ex, string details = "")         {             int lineNumber = 0;             const string lineNumberMarker = ":line ";             string traceText = ex.StackTrace + "";  /...