Keenan Newton

Keenan Newton

Keenan is a Senior Consultant for Magenic Technologies, Inc., one of the nation's premiere Microsoft Gold Certified Partners, focused on delivering business value through applied technology. He has over eight years of experience designing, architecting, and developing n-tier applications for both Windows and Web environments.

Articles Authored

  • Configure It Out with the Configuration Management Application Block

    Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022

    Published in: CODE Magazine: 2005 - May/June

    Managing application configuration and meta-data could not get any easier.Every application needs some way to configure itself so that it may interact with a given environment, whether it is customizing the title bar captions for a specific client or setting database connection strings for a development environment. For the simplest of applications, the app.config or machine.config probably meets your needs. For complex applications where security, scalability, and deployment also have to be addressed, you may need something a bit more robust, secure, and scalable. Enter the Configuration Management Application Block.

  • Data Access with Microsoft Application Blocks

    Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019

    Published in: CODE Magazine: 2004 - November/December

    ADO.NET SQL Data access made simple and efficient.Microsoft has created a set of libraries known as Application Blocks. These libraries will help developers reduce the amount of code they must write while using the current best practices. One of the components, Data Access Application Block for .NET, addresses Microsoft SQL Server data access by wrapping up data access into a helper class.