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I was messing around with collections today and decided to try and work out how the HashTable stores/returns it's items so, I ran the following test:

[ cross-posted on http://regexblogs.com/DNeimke ]

I'm hoping to make time to catch Chris Kinsman's talk in Adelaide on Friday:

I realize that most hard-core backenders will already know most of this but, with all of the posts that have entered my aggregator relating to sprocs and ad-hoc sql, I thought that I'd take this opportunity to add a link to an article I wrote a few years ago which discusses what gets cached (and when):

I read the new "Beyond (COM) Add Reference: Has Anyone Seen the Bridge?" article yesterday and, was quite impressed by the detailed groundwork that was laid-out to explain the differences between COM and CLR and, how Interop provides a bridge for seamlessly calling in and out of both environments.  As the author states in that article the real meat is still to come so, if you are reading this and you haven't already read that article scoot over now and give it a look - you won't be disappointed.

Duncan, gave my mark-up tool a nice plug today but missed a very important feature. It is emminently better to mark-up code snippets using Css styles (as opposed to Html tags) because you can have global control over how your code samples are rendered. To set the tool to output Css styles do the following:

Just discovered that my mark-up article has made it to the main Microsoft home page at http://www.microsoft.com :-)

I've been so busy lately that my world has just been a complete blur.  In the past week I've had a job change, helped to release a new blogging community (http://regexblogs.com) and been involved in numerous out of hours endeavours.  Put all of that on top of my family (which includes a newborn), co-ordinating a new swimming pool and a new bridge to cross our creek and you can clearly see that there is the potential for stack overflow.