February 2009 - Posts

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Winforms Gotcha: Form.Close() doesn't always call Dispose() by FransBouma

I just ran into a weird issue. During profiling I saw that controls on a form which was already closed were still reacting to events. I checked whether the Dispose() routine of the particular Form was called, but it wasn't. However, the Dispose() routine...
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Soft-deletes are bad, m'kay? by FransBouma

Have you ever ran into database tables with a field which is used to mark if a row has been 'deleted' ? Probably. These fields are used to implement 'soft-deletes'. For the soft-delete impaired, a quick introduction. Soft-deletes are row deletes which...
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