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One of the best things about being a programmer is new technologies,  taking a look at exciting new approaches to everyday tasks.  The .NET world is continually growing, in fact it was only 6-months ago that the 3.5 Framework was released giving...
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We are going to look at the Provider model and Offloader/Worker model and how we use this approach for our Test Driven Development (TDD) and Unit Testing. For this Demo we will be using the Northwind Database, and developing this in VB. To start off we...
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A few days ago I was asked to do a version of my XMLSerializer post in C#. Well it was more like a week or two ago but either way here it is. For explanation on what I'm doing in the code please refer back to my original post. http://weblogs.asp.net/davidyancey...
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Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 are finally out and with it we have some new "toys" to look at. Today we are going to look at XLINQ and the new ListView control while we build a new RSS Reader. Before we get started I want to take a brief at LINQ. LINQ...
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RSS definition From Wikipedia "RSS (formally "RDF Site Summary", known colloquially as "Really Simple Syndication") is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts . An RSS document...
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TreeViews provide a great way for displaying a hierarchal view of a website, directory, company, and the list goes on.  You can build a TreeView by binding it to a datasource, or by manually adding the nodes.  Today we are going to look at building...
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Developing and maintaining a community website can sometimes be a daunting task. A great deal of thought, and planning needs to go into creating content for your community to view, experience, and interact with. One fun piece that you will find on a number...
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For the past few weeks we've been looking at utilizing XML to work with DATA from our SQL Server.  We've talked about building a custom XML document with XMLSerializer , Using the XML Datatype built in SQL 2005, and finally using OPENXML to insert...
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The XMLSerializer: Recently a friend of mine and I were discussing the best way to serialize a Dataset to XML while being able to control the structure of the XML. With a dataset we could easily use the dataset.WriteToXml method to write the dataset to...
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