June 2007 - Posts

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Maintainable software: why you can't live without proper solid documentation by FransBouma

This post is a reply to Jeremy D. Miller 's post ' A Train of Thought, June 17, 2007 '. It's part of an on going discussion about maintainability of software and what's necessary for having maintainable software. I'm not going to link to every post in...
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Don't use foreach over MatchCollection, use for. UPDATED by FransBouma

UPDATE . Apparently they both call GetMatch(). So my advice isn't correct. Thanks 'Reflector' for the comment. What surprises me though is that first my routine (checked with Ants profiler) was slow because of the foreach, and now it's not. Simple performance...
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SqlServer 2008: Does it or doesn't it have the Entity Framework? by FransBouma

I just read an interesting post on the Oakleafblog of Roger Jennings. There, Roger enlists his feedback he would have given to the ADO.NET team. It's an interesting list of items, most of them I can agree on. Though the better gems are in the comment...
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SqlServer 2005 paging: there IS a generic wrapper query possible by FransBouma

(the Name field in the queries below is without [ and ] brackets, because CS currently goes bezerk because of these. Don't know why, but apparently a glitch somewhere.) Recently, I wrote a blogpost about SqlServer 2005 paging, called API's and production...
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Posting something with [Name] in the text fails by FransBouma

I'm trying to post a new article about SqlServer paging but the query SQL I was posting contained the reference to a Name field, WITH [ and ]. This gives an error in CS 3.0 here. Just for reference :)
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My last post on THE soap by FransBouma

Ok, this will be my last post on the soap of TD.NET and MS (has anyone already called Hollywood? ). In the community there's some controversy starting to pop up here and there and I just want to make clear what my position is and will be. This to avoid...
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Thou Shall Not Work Around Technical Limitations! (whatever they are) by FransBouma

Dan Fernandez responded to my recent blogpost with a follow-up on the Jamie vs. Microsoft soap. He used an analogy to try to make his point: To paraphrase an analogy from that post, this would be comparable to a 3rd party company working around the technical...
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Look! Microsoft is working hard on building a community! by FransBouma

See it in action here . Frankly, it doesn't really matter who's right: Jamie or the tie-with-suit (a real software engineer, you can obviously tell) at Microsoft who started this crusade. What matters is this: (the quote is from Ian Ringrose ) "Is it...
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