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Once upon a time, long, long ago, I was working at a company that gave their engineers some shiny, state-of-the-art, new-fangled HP calculators. They were awesome; instead of battery-draining LEDs for display, they used something called an LCD. And, they...
C# Passing strings by ref...
In an earlier post here , I wrote two functions to Serialize and Deserialize objects to XML strings. Since then, while reading a book about XML, I learned of even more power in the .Net XML Serialization libraries*. In addition to serializing objects...
A user on the Asp.Net forums, where I moderate, asked how to list a bunch of files in a directory as hyperlinks on a web page so the user could click on them. I thought this was probably an often performed task and decided create a Server Control to encapsulate...
More and more often I've been seeing C# code like this: var Data = GetData(); What on earth does GetData() return? This code is not as maintainable as it could be and is not as maintainable as it should be. Doesn't explicitly declaring the variable type...
There was a question about this on the Asp.Net forums and after a quick search I didn't find a good generic function so I thought I'd supply one. Note: I wanted this to be as broad and useful as possible, so the second parameter is a ListControl which...
This post is for beginners. Many beginners struggle with the concept of an Interface. Over on the Asp.Net forums, where I moderate, the question is asked a surprising number of times. I'm going to try to describe and explain the concept of an Interface...
Developers, Software Engineers, and Programmers are logical, rational, reasonable people right? Sure they are…until you disagree with something they believe in. Then they can become the most enflamed, outraged, foaming-at-the-mouth, intolerant, lunatics...
Usually, when you think of a Web Service, you think …make the call, get the response, and get on with the task at hand. These "one shot" calls are the norm in Web Services but there may be times when you need a little more. You may need the Web Service...
Over on the ASP.NET forums, where I am a moderator, a user asked a question concerning Master Pages. I thought it was an interesting enough question to spend a little time on it and write a BLOG entry (golf season hasn't started in my state yet). The...
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