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  • Open your blog mind

    The blogosphere itself may be free of geographic constraints, but the cultural and linguistic differences between countries are still present.

  • HasRows logic flaw

    Well maybe the title of this post is a bit strong. It's not really a flaw, but something occurs to me today using this new Datareader property.

    If you use Hasrows it doesn't mean that you have indeed read any data !

    I know it looks strange, but Hasrows is just there to check that some data are in your reader.

    What is the point to open a datareader, tell me that I have rows, and not reading the data ;-)

    Where is the logic of this ?

    So unless someone tell me I am a stupid man (and I am surely going to receive hundreds of comments with something like that ;-)) I stay with the 'old' version of my code which test and read the first record in the same time:

    If MyDataReader.Read then

  • Meaning map

    Meaning Map is a client-server software alternative to online message boards, and a whole new way of looking at political space. Because of its complexity, it has to run as a stand-alone client application on your computer (much like a web browser), instead of running directly in a web page. For now, the Meaning Map client is only available on Windows.

  • Epitaph

    Fun comment from Addy on a previous post :

    Hey guess what - if you could see the source code it wouldn't help anyway because everyone knows that the world would be "sealed" :)

  • VB.Net language design

    MSDN has posted a transcript of the chat that I and other members of my team had a few weeks ago about VB.NET language design. It ended up being much more about future features than past decisions, but that's to be expected. It was a fun chat for us, and we hope to be able to do another one in the not-too-distant future!

    From
    Paul