Sahil has an interesting post regarding whether you should call Close or Dispose on a Connection object when you are done with it. In addition to his points, I commented over there (but worth repeating over here) that there is a clear difference in functionality between them:
Dispose will also clear the the connection string, whereas Close will not. This means that if you Close a connection and then open it, it will work OK, but if you Dispose it and then Open it, it will throw InvalidOperationException since the connection string is not initialized
Although it is less than a month since Microsoft acquired GIANT Company Software, a beta version of this Anti-Spyware software is already available for
download.
January's Israel Visual Basic User Group Meeting will be held on January 5, 2005:
17:30 - 18:00 Assembly
18:00 - 18:10 Introduction
18:10 - 19:30 “Web services, serialization and networking in .NET Framework 2.0 – Part 1"
Ohad Israeli, Magen Software Engineering
19:30 - 19:45 Break
19:45 – 20:00 "Hatzilu !"
Open session, with questions and answers/ideas from everyone
20:00 – 21:00 “Web services, serialization and networking in .NET Framework 2.0 – Part 2"
Ohad Israeli, Magen Software Engineering
This month in the second in our series of presentations on some of the new tools and technologies that are part of the VS 2005 and SQL Server 2005 wave of releases due to arrive in the coming year. Ohad Israeli, a Senior Consultant with Magen Software Engineering, will cover several topics essential relating to developing web services in .NET.
The .NET Framework 2.0 is all about making it easier to build and run real world Web services. Whether you're looking for more control over serialization and type generation, concerned about performance or just want to run Web services in desktop applications, .NET Framework 2.0 enables you to do it all. This session will take you through a tour of the new Web services and related features in .NET Framework 2.0 including custom serialization, network awareness and standards conformance. This session is a must for all Web services and distributed applications developers.
As always, we'll have our special "Hatzilu" session at our meeting. So please come prepared to discuss your most frustrating problems (or at least some of them!) and to share some of your own techniques and solutions that you have found useful in your applications.
Please remember that it is important for me to know as accurately as possible how many people will be attending each meeting, so that I can arrange for the right amount of food and the proper setup of the chairs. Please confirm your attendance.
See you there !!