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Had some spare time left :)

Today I took the theoretical drivers license exam. And I passed it! With 0 mistakes! :)

The only thing that's left now is the practical exam. But that's still a couple of months away.

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For everyone who received .NET Magazine #5, there's an article in there at page 53 about cleaning up your code.

Jan Tielens mentions a ConvertToProperties macro, which is really sweet!

But there has been a printing error or something, the link went missing on page 55 in the bottom box. (http://xxx/...)

So, here is it: Create Property Macro for C#.

The version on the site doesn't correspond to the screenshots, it doesn't use mVariable (any more?), but replaces it with _variable (which I prefer).

Be sure to get this macro! It saves you a lot off time ;)

Exams are over and I got my results. I passed with 'Highest Distinction', you can only guess how happy I am :p

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Now only a half year of school left, and then it's time to do an interim at a company :)

Everyone who has ever used a Regex knows this form of parameter:

1Regex r = new Regex("", RegexOptions.Singleline | RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

1  public enum Pars {

2   One = 1, 

3   Two = 2, 

4   Three = 4,

5   Four = 8,

6   Five = 16,

7   Six = 32,

8   Seven = 64

9  } /* Pars */

1  private static void TestPars(Pars options) {

2   if ((options & Pars.One) == Pars.One) { Console.WriteLine("One"); }

3   if ((options & Pars.Two) == Pars.Two) { Console.WriteLine("Two"); }

4   if ((options & Pars.Three) == Pars.Three) { Console.WriteLine("Three"); }

5   if ((options & Pars.Four) == Pars.Four) { Console.WriteLine("Four"); }

6   if ((options & Pars.Five) == Pars.Five) { Console.WriteLine("Five"); }

7   if ((options & Pars.Six) == Pars.Six) { Console.WriteLine("Six"); }

8   if ((options & Pars.Seven) == Pars.Seven) { Console.WriteLine("Seven"); }

9  } /* TestPars */

1  static void Main(string[] args) {

2   TestPars(Pars.Three | Pars.Five | Pars.Seven);

3  }

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I had a lot off trouble installing DotNetNuke. This popular portal application kept me busy for an entire afternoon and night.

First I got ASP.NET errors about columns missing in tables, then about stored procedures. When those were gone, the application itself managed to hang IE.

So, for everyone else who might be suffering from this, or will give it a try and encounters the same, here's my installation guide for 2.1.2:

The SQL errors occured when using SQL Server as Data Provider, the IE errors always occur.

This step is for everyone using SQL Server:

• Download DotNetNuke_2.0.4.zip.
• Extract this, follow the normal installation procedure, this version doesn't give any problems.
• Open the site so that it creates the tables and stored procedures.
• Download DotNetNuke_2.1.2.zip.
• Delete all files from 2.0.4 but keep your SQL Server tables.
• Extract 2.1.2 in the same location.
• Open the site, now you got passed the missing columns errors!

• Download DotNetNuke_2.1.1.zip.
• Extract this to a temporary location and get the file spmenu.js from controls\SolpartMenu.
• Copy this file to 2.1.2 overwriting it.
• You now fixed the IE errors!