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It's been a long while!
Yes it has and shame on me. I have had alot of personal things going on, plus a new consulting gig on a massive project with a major sports network. This project is in VB .Net, and while I normally prefer C#, VB ain't too shabby. The switch over wasn't that bad but when I do other work in C# I keep forgetting braces and semi colons.
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Preparing for Ajax
Saw this link on Forget Foo of a nice Ajax resource. Time to dig in.
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Fighting comment spammers
Roy Osherove has a post about moderating comments in your blog with .Text. Not that I get much but every little bit helps.
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MS is really listening
I had reported a bug with the VS 2005 Unit Tester aborting tests when MS Anti Spyware is running. I have been getting MSN alerts at various times to keep me posted on the status of the bug. I just got an email and then an alert on my cell phone telling me that the are working with the spyware team and will have it fixed before the final release.
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Learning the Team System unit tester
Ok, so now I dig around the web and find out I can create a test by right clicking on the constructor. Not bad - it created a test project and a class to test the constructor. I just need to set some values. So I set the unit test project as the start project - because I didn't know about the Test Manager yet - and away I go. The test results show that the test was aborted and I see the anti spyware thingy popping up about something tyring to write to a file.
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Learning VS 2005 part I
In the prequel to this entry I realized I shoudl have blogged my experiences with beta 2 from the start. Anyway, once I figured out what I was going to try to build, it was time to make another stab at getting NUnit to work with VS.
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I should have blogged this from the beginning
Ok, I made a big mistake. With beta 2 out I finally decided to dig in. I have been fiddling around with VS 2005 and have read a ton of articles on all of the new features. I tinkered with beta 1 but just didn't have the time. So now I am making time and it has been interesting to say the least.
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Converting objects or arrays of objects to DataTables Part II
I have had a chance to work a little more on converting objects to data tables. Oddur has asked about nested types and I have implemented them - to an extent. The issue is how far do I really need to take this? Our needs are simple, but I did run into having to handle enums. I decided that an enum would always produce a String column and that I would use the enum name as the value.
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Converting objects or arrays of objects to DataTables
Recently there have been some articles about not using DataSets or DataTables in web applications. Scott Mitchell has Why I Don't Use DataSets in My ASP.NET Applications and More On Why I Don't Use DataSets in My ASP.NET Applications. Karl Sequin has On the Way to Mastering ASP.NET: Introducing Custom Entity Classes.
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Transactions and the using statement
I was wondering if someone could clarify this for me. If I have the following code (simplified for brevity) :
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Enterprise Library Data block
Has anyone tried to do a prepared statement with parameters with the new block? Unless I missed something I don't see any example.
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How nerdy am I?