Our startup honestly wanted to use OSS products. We do not want to spend time for any OSS bug fixing so our main requirement was -official support for all OSS products-. We thought were prepared to pay the price for OSS products, but then we got a price sticker shock. Now behold: QT is $3300 per seat...

Our startup honestly wanted to use OSS products. We do not want to spend time for any OSS bug fixing so our main requirement was -official support for all OSS products-. We thought were prepared to pay the price for OSS products, but then we got a price sticker shock. Now behold: QT is $3300 per seat...

Sometimes you may have the string name of an enumeration identifier, and want its enum type. For example, you write a enum identifier as a string to a file and want to read it back and obtain the original enumeration type. This takes place when you serialize a class to an XML file and deserialize it...

Interesting article I have just read about "Implementing Singleton in C#" http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnpatterns/html/ImpSingletonInCsharp.asp Key topics covered: Static Initialization, Double-Check Locking, Multithreaded Singleton

Took a look at some snippets I wrote some time ago and found the code below. Hope my blog's readers enjoy it. It is not pure .Net code but can be converted to. package guerche.evaristo.luciano.samples public class ReplaceAllSample { public static void main(String[] args) { String searchFor; String...

SOLUTION: Ok fired up SQL profiler and see my problem, the non compiled query seems to not evaluate the query until you actualy use the object. But the Compiled version is hitting the database straight away. And as I was not using this data the non compiled version seemed fast as it never hit the database...

Hello all, I decided to implement tagging on my video library. My first solution was to use one table for the tags. Containing the videoid and tagname. When I loaded in 1,000,000 test tags this became slow to generate my tag cloud data. My new solution was to split up the tags into two tables. One containing...

I am beggining to really like to ease of using LINQ, On a project I am working on now I am storing configuration in an XML file like so: <sites> <site id="1" sitename="foo"> <domains> <domain url="www.foo.com" /> </domains> <settings> <setting key="foo" value="foo...

Needing a solution to fix transparent PNG in IE6 I came to start using one of the many javascript based solutions to do this. But when it came time to use ajax and populating new images in my postbacks this obviously broke. So I created a custom ASP.NET Component to help me do this... Control: I created...

Hi All, Have run into some issues with using default values in my SQL database with LINQ. I set AutoGenerated in the LINQ Designer to true which made use of my default values but this did not let me update this manually as it would throw an exception. I got a good suggestion from Young Joo to keep autogenerated...