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  • objBag.Remove( objCat )

    Geoff Snowman makes it official . . . Wintellect big-wig John Robbins will be speaking at WeProgram.Net April 8th. We'll also be giving away a free pass to the Devscovery conference in late April, so don't miss this one! There might be a surprise speaker at this WeProgram.Net meeting, too; I can't say...

  • .Net Everywhere

    I found this precious gem nestled in the comments to Darrell Norton's post about his and Paul's highway interaction with a Java guy . I assume it's Greg “Am I the only one who missed PDC 2003“ Robinson's vehicle, in which case that means two things: Greg must really know his stuff (to put...

  • If at first you don't succeed, don't admit you tried?

    What happened to “software as a service?” CNET has an article about the struggles of MS Passport and the whole “.Net My Services” initiative. A few years back, I recall hearing how we all would be downloading MS Office apps and renting application functionality a month or year...

  • User Groups and getting connected

    I recommend that .Net developers everywhere check out their local user groups. If there isn't one around you, start one up. You don't need 100+ people to run a successful group; in the first year, WeProgram.Net has gotten between 10 and 30 people to the monthly meetings. With the support of INETA , a...

  • DataReader to DataTable sample code

    Carlos, in a comment on my blog, requested the code I used in this post to efficiently convert a DataReader into a DataTable (it's inspired by Roy Osherove's post here and the comments to that post). For posterity, I'm including the following example of how to extend the base DBDataAdapter class for...

  • WebSuperGoo can't be blamed for my walking into the women's restroom . . .

    . . . I was wrestling with a customer's FTP problem while walking through the airport and those darn bathroom entrances look so similiar . . . I knew something was wrong when all I saw were stalls and no urinals, but my brain was, apparently, doing some asynchronous work and it wasn't until the nearest...

  • CommandBuilder Revisited

    We just wrapped up teaching our sessions on ADO.net in ODU's ITPro curriculum, and [yet again] the subject of the CommandBuilder came up. While I first mentioned this in this post from 2003, it's a topic of confusion and warrants revisiting. Paul Laudeman first pointed out this MSDN article on Weaning...

  • Overflows, C# and VB.Net, and IL

    Students frequently ask, "What are the differences between C# and VB.Net?" One of the first things we cover in our beginning .Net classes is how .Net languages like VB.Net and C# both produce MSIL (Microsoft Intermediate Language); IL, in turn, is used to produce the machine instructions for your program...

  • Don't Open Metabase.xml with WordPad

    Note to self: When you've enabled “Direct Metabase Edit“ in IIS, Notepad is good -- Wordpad is bad. Happy. Netting!

  • PimpedOutTextbox VB Style

    I've been asked by a few folks to provide a VB equivalent of the example C# web control I wrote about in this DotNetJunkies article . It's taken me a few weeks to get around to it, but here's a quick translation (note, the formatting in .Text made this messy -- but I'm not going to bother reformating...

  • Some VB Static

    After a bit of time away, I'm teaching part-time again. We were covering static members in VB and it ocurred to me (and the class) that static methods in VB exhibit different behaviour than in C#. I do a lot of my programming with C#, and I was explaining how Shared (the VB equivalent to the C# static...

  • Mahalo in Advance for the Attribute Summary

    Just got back from a little holiday on a Pacific island where mahalo means Thank you . . . this was one of those vacations that helps me rationalize all the long hours during the rest of the year! Regarding the title of this post, a buddy asked me if I knew of a definitive resource on Attributes in the...
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