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UniVerse and .Net: Give or take a period

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IBM UniVerse and .Net, BFF

This article is the third and final part of a series that covers some lessons learned when trying to plug Visual Studio into our IBM U2 UniVerse database using IBM’s ADO.NET driver.  Part 1 was an overview of how well … Continue reading

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The Meaning of Everything: UniVerse Dictionaries for the .Net Programmer

This article is a continuation of my previous post about using IBM U2 UniVerse‘s ADO.NET driver with Visual Studio.  Today I’m going to deal with the part of the process that makes .Net programmers cringe but is the key to … Continue reading

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Visual Studio and IBM UniVerse – Playing the Matchmaker

It has been a couple of months since we switched database APIs for accessing our IBM U2 UniVerse database from .Net.  We had a lot of reasons to leave UniOLEDB behind, and pretty high expectations from IBM’s new "DB2 Client" … Continue reading

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The Infragistics UltraToolbar: Didn’t those used to be underlined?

A week or so after writing the previous post about our almost bug-free upgrade of Infragistics NetAdvantage, I belatedly noticed another bug worth mentioning. In NetAdvantage, there aren’t separate "menu bar" and "toolbar" controls — everything is a toolbar.  A … Continue reading

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Infragistics UltraGrid: The Case of the Out-of-Key Band

As I’ve written in my past articles about Infragistics NetAdvantage for .Net, we’ve been stuck on an older version for some time.  I was worried that an upgrade would introduce some new bugs and other code-breaking changes.  NetAdvantage has a … Continue reading

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Silent But Exasperating: Automated Install of the IBM DB2 Client

Having made the leap over to IBM’s new "DB2 Client" ADO.Net driver for the U2 UniVerse database, we recently spent some time figuring out how to get it onto users’ PCs.  This turned out to be harder than I expected, … Continue reading

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U2 and ADO.Net: Relatively Relational

I come to bury UniOLEDB; not to praise it.Which won’t be a big surprise if you’ve seen by previous whining and kvetching on the subject.At the time we adopted UniOLEDB, it was only ADO.Net-compatible driver for our IBM U2 UniVerse … Continue reading

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Infragistics NetAdvantage Tips – Part 3: Editing with the UltraGrid

In this installment of the Infragistics NetAdvantage series, I’m going to revisit the UltraGrid, which I wrote about in Part 1.  The UltraGrid (nee WinGrid) is one of those programming tools that "just works", as long as you’re happy with … Continue reading

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Infragistics NetAdvantage Tips – Part 2: The UltraToolbarsManager

Here’s a continuation of my list of coding tips and samples for the Infragistics NetAdvantage suite.  Part 1 dealt with the UltraGrid control, and I could actually devote Parts 2 through GigaMegaZillion® to the UltraGrid since there are so many … Continue reading

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