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Reflection
I posted a question late last week to a couple listserves I'm on: Given only a string variable containing the name of the property you wish to call, how does one go about calling it? The answer came back fivefold nearly immediately: “Use reflection...
More on the Application Blocks
Just a couple good articles I found this morning over on 4Guys : An Introduction and Overview of the Microsoft Application Blocks Examining the Data Access Application Block
Posted: Feb 05 2004, 12:18 PM by rachelreese | with no comments
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Working with ASP.NET's Graphics on the fly?
This is one of the coolest, most useful ASP.NET things I've ever seen. Interactive Mapping Using SVG & ASP.NET
Along the lines of AndAlso and OrElse...
I remind everyone of “IIf“. A nother tremendously useful little bit of code that I use all the time. If your If-statement is designed to set a single variable, like this one: If Request(" index ") Is Nothing Then myVariable = 0 Else myVariable...
LonghornBlogs.com
I just checked it out for the first time, and it looks fantastic. I'm sure there will be lots of great Longhorn info passed around in those there parts. Thanks to Robert McLaws & his company ( Interscape Technologies ) for setting it up. I did notice...
OrElse and AndAlso
I actually just learned about this a few months ago. I'm sure it's an old .NET technique for some of you out there, but it's one of the simplest things you can do to make your code just a little more efficient. Basically, if you have a simple if-then...
Raising Events
I find myself answering a lot of questions from folks on the forums and various lists about how to raise an event from a user control to the main page it was in. For posterity, I thought I'd post an example to handle a button OnClick event in here: In...
Posted: Aug 11 2003, 10:07 AM by rachelreese | with no comments
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Debugging Lessons
Most debugging problems come pretty easily to me for the simple reason that most of the errors I come across are either stupid ones or Google-able. When those fail, I'm pretty much at a loss. So the last couple of days I've had an issue that failed both...
What I'm reading...
OK, I suppose I should have posted this a little earlier, but in response to Scott 's “ What are you reading? “: Programming Application Architecture for .NET: Designing Applications and Services Writing Secure Code (not version 2) Non-programming Finishing...
Posted: Aug 05 2003, 12:49 PM by rachelreese | with no comments
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More Windows 2003
From the comments to my last post on Windows 2003: tariq I agree that the guide was good. Theres still one hiccup i have. and that is virus protection. Yes yes, with all the security 2003 brings its close to unnecesary, but if you are using at as a workstation...
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