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Passing of a pet
Since Scott asked us to keep the topics related to .net, I will simply say, for those who I have developed internet friendships with, one of our pets, unexpectly and suddenly passed away yesterday. Details are on my personal blog. I am in shock and I am grieving more than I ever thought I would.
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DataBinding
If you are building a Windows Form app, take advantage of Databinding. Learn all you can about this. If you can use ADO.NET types as your dataSources, even better. Wow, what a nice job MS has done with this and what a time saver.
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wmp9 test
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VB.NET and Heaven in the same sentence....
Wow, I have died and gone to...well, VB.NET Heaven
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Wrox Books
Seems APress bought the title to the Wrox book I co-authored, but as they state 'things are very confused'.
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overflow checking
You learn something new everyday. This link has been tossed around over the past couple of days. Within 5 minutes of reading it, I discovered a potential performance issue in our apps. That is overflow checking. As the article clearly states, turn it off if an overflow is not considered an exception.
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Collapsing|Expanding comments
A colleague of mine just showed me this. At the start of each method we have a standard look and feel for commenting the purpose of the method, the author, date written, modifications etc. Well, you can move these comments to outside the method signature and the comments will be collapsible! Pretty cool. Just make sure the comments are before the method signature and after the last methods End (VB.NET of course)
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Why do we blog...hmmm...really
I have been giving this some thought lately. Usually as I go through 200+ blogs to read every morning captured by Mr. Newsgator. Which ones catch my attention and why? Think about this for a few minutes. Why do you blog and why do you read blogs?
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Pay attention to "#Region " Windows Form Designer generated code "
We are building a windows form app. We have approx 30 controls on one of our forms. One of these controls is a custom ComboBox which has about 10 custom properties that can be set at design time. The main ones allow one ComboBox to be linked to another one.
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test
this is a NewsGator test
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DataBinding, BindingContext and BindingManagers
I have spent the past 2 days trying to figure all of this out. Our app DataBinds to many data sources, all ADO.NET types. Mostly from one dataset, but in some cases, like our drop downs that load from a code table, they are not related.
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Updating Multiple DataTables inside one Dataset
I have been working on a generic helper class that, among other database services, will take a modified dataset that contains multiple modified datatables and do an update. Long story made real short, all worked well on the first DataTable update, but not the following ones. The Command was getting built correctly, however I kept getting exceptions that informed me the parameter passed in was not a member of the stored proc (the code builds the sproc name dynamically per the Datatable info).
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Been quiet, been busy
I have not blogged for quite some time. We have been very cranking out code. I have learned a ton lately. Cool stuff I have learned: