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July 2003 - Posts

So, do you Wiki
They are calling this Social Software
Learning ADO.NET

I have seen a few questions popping up on LISTSERVs about ADO.NET.  Mainly concluding that ADO.NET is more difficult when compared to ADO 2.6 and RecordSets. 

All I can say is deal with the extra work and the learning curve as it is well worth the time and effort.  Spend some time in the SDK and pick up Essential ADO.NET and read it from cover to cover.  I have struggled with losing cursors, but overall a disconnected ResultSet is MONEY.    

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'Our' Wrox Book

It is nice to see I am now part of the 'Wrox Author Team' vs. being an individual....

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1861008465/qid=1058287182/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-0462371-3880820?v=glance&s=bookshtm

Anyone out there getting paid for their .NET book contributions by the way?  Good thing I kept my daytime job ;-)

 

 

 

Windows Forms Grids

If you are building a Windows Forms App that needs to use grids, run, do not walk to Janus Systems and purchase the GridEX NOW!  I do not work for them.  I do not even know them.  This Grid is MONEY and worth every dollar you spend one it.  The support is incredible and the functionality built into this Grid blows me away every day.  

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VS 2003 IDE changes a referenced DLL when more than one version is available

We have seen cases where the IDE, on a Build, will somehow change the version of a reference dll.  An example is this:

c:\myapp\bin\my.dll (v 1.00)

c:\myapp\bin\my.dll (v 2.00)

We reference (File) v 1.00 in the IDE.  Another file in the same project needs v 2.00.  On a build, the ide will change the reference from v 1.0 to v 2.0.  Now, the file that needs v 1.00 generate build errors as it is no longer referenced.  How, in this case where I need to reference both versions, do I do this from with the IDE? 

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