Monthly Archives: October 2005

ADO.NET Provider Model Fundamentals

Posted on October 30, 2005 by davidhayden

I hope everyone is having a happy Halloween. Nothing makes Halloween more fun than my 3 children all under the age of 5. We’ve gone to the local pumpking festival, the community halloween party, the county halloween party, and now … Continue reading →

Pro ADO.NET 2.0 Book Review

Posted on October 27, 2005 by davidhayden

I finished the final chapter of Pro ADO.NET 2.0 last night and highly recommend it if you are looking for a book on ADO.NET. Read about it on Apress. Summary Pro ADO.NET 2.0 is about half the thickness of an older … Continue reading →

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Builder Design Pattern – Part 2 of 3

Posted on October 26, 2005 by davidhayden

As mentioned in my previous post, the DbConnectionStringBuilder Class mentioned in Pro ADO.NET 2.0 allows one to build a connection string in a very object-oriented, database agnostic way by setting properties on the class and calling ToString() to get a properly … Continue reading →

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Builder Design Pattern – Part I

Posted on October 25, 2005 by davidhayden

Hurricane Wilma caused intermittent power problems the past couple of days, but now everything seems to be peachy keen. She also caused me to miss my ever favorite event, A Taste of Sarasota, which has been postponed to an unannounced … Continue reading →

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Retina.NET v1.0.0.7

Posted on October 23, 2005 by davidhayden

I am a big fan of O/R Mappers and Code Generation Tools to help me be more productive in my day-to-day programming. There are a lot of affordable O/R Mappers, such as WilsonORMapper, Codus, LLBLGen Pro, NHibernate, etc. that you … Continue reading →

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ASP.NET Security and ADO.NET

Posted on October 22, 2005 by davidhayden

My wife and I finally wrapped up moving into our new home, which has been a very frustrating and tiresome couple of months. Although I hate moving, the process of moving our stuff was actually the easy part. The frustrating part … Continue reading →

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FreeTextBox v3.0.6 – Images are Embedded Resources – Excellent!

Posted on October 1, 2005 by davidhayden

I am definitely late in the game, but I decided to upgrade to FreeTextBox v3.0.6 on a new project. In the past, all images, javascript, and XML files used with FreeTextBox were stored as external files on the web server. It … Continue reading →

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