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Developer Dawg
Woohoo ! Can you say "I Ported from VB6 to VB.Net And All I Got Was This Lousy Poster" ? p.s I'm kidding . it's not at all lousy. I'm proud( in a very geeky sort of way)
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Typed Datasets - Can You Get Much Cooler?
I'm currently developing a small winforms application for my company. It's really nothing fancy - just a data entry system connected to an Access database. In the old days, using VB6 i would have the following options…
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Resolving Debugger Problems in VS.NET
The Article I posted about resolving debugger problems in VS.NET seems to be quite popular. Ive been getting hits from all over. Just in case you missed it and are stuck on something - Here's the link to it . Of course,…
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ASP.NET Encoding Tip from Scott Hanselman
Tip from Scott Hanselman If your life sucks so badly that you have to support Netscape 4.x, you might want to remember that Netscape 4 never handled Unicode/UTF-8 very well. Since UTF-8 is ASP.NET's default Response…
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Hell Shmell
Santo Replied on Config Hell : "My take on this issue is that config files are used by .NET for .NET - they threw us developers a bone with the appsettings, but that's about it. I totally understand the .NET designer's…
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Suggestion
First - The site is becoming better and better(I didn;t even know until a few minutes ago i can now delete my posts..!) Way to go! Here's something i think would be nice to have: On the DotNetWeblog.com site - For each…
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The Next Best Thing After a User-Group: .Net WebCasts
Ever since i discovered WebCasts I have been a big fan. Microsoft has been doing Webcasts teaching pretty much anything about Microsoft Technology and specifically on .Net related issues for some time now, and they have…
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Config Hell - continued
OK. I got several comments regarding the reasons for Config Files to be Read-Only. " The main reason for having config files read only, IMHO, is due to permissions issues. Applications are typically installed to Program…
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Joining The BCL Types Wagon + Confession
Hmm. Ive been reading some of the latest posts discussing using BCL type names and not intrinsic language type name (i.e 'System.String' vs. 'string' etc.). I'll admit that up until now i have not used that philosophy…
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Config Hell
I really don't see the reason for .config files to be read only at run time. Why should i have to create my own class to persist to the XML file, or worst, have a copy in memory of the values, since any changes I would…
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Common uses for Regex parsing
Got this in my email today... Here are some nice examples of of parsing using Regex for some commonly used cases * IsValidEmail - Validating an E-mail Address http://archive.devx.com/devxpress/gurl.asp?i=1X2694710X75356…
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A Star Is Born (Emotional - That's me!)
I did it! My first print article has been published! I go down to B&N today and there is my article listed on the cover of . NET Developer's Journal . Sure enough, I turn to page 26 and after getting past my picture,…
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Oops!
.net Weblogs Archive I missed a post for the last time... Ever saw a post about a day ago on the dotnetweblogs.com home page and then it dissapears and you have no idea who posted it? Wish that other bloggers showed on…
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BBS, Telix And World Domination
I still remember the good ol' days when i used to sneak in to my step father's study in the middle of the night and use TELIX and connect to BBS's all over Israel. I was about 10 or 13..?. I rememebr the first time i…
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Avoiding DB_SEC_E_AUTH_FAILED exception on connection string
Thought I should share, since i could find almost no reference to this on the web... I came accross this weird message when trying to set the connection string on the connection object to point to an MDB file on my…
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MSFT to compete with Google
"We do view Google more and more as a competitor. We believe that we can provide consumers with a better product and a better user experience. That's something that we're actively looking at doing," Bob Visse, director…
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An amazing Winforms FAQ
I just discovered this site, and plan to use it often! http://www.syncfusion.com/FAQ/WinForms/default.asp great job! Check out the very thorough DataGrid FAQ here: http://www.syncfusion.com/FAQ/WinForms/FAQ_c44c.asp
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Googlism
bill gates is satan' page bill gates is satan conspiracy theory bill gates is a satanic worshiper who uses microsoft to gain bill gates is richer than bill gates is the anti bill gates is getting bill gates is the anti…
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Bloody cool: Share Keyboard/Mouse between computers
Synergy -- Share Keyboard/Mouse between computers [Cool Tools] - Posted @ 12:39 pm : PermLink Synergy (GPL) With synergy, all the computers on your desktop form a single virtual screen. You use the mouse and keyboard of…
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Err.. Is there a way to put custom HTML in the Blog Header
Just got this email: Dear Roy Osherove, You have laid a claim for ISerializable <http://www.blogshares.com/blogs.php?blog=http://dotnetweblogs.com/Rosherove/> To complete your claim you need to display the following…
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BlogShares.... rules..??
just found out i'm on BlogShares . and i'm valued at 206$. is that a good thing?
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BlogShares.... rules..??
just found out i'm on BlogShares . and i'm valued at 206$. is that a good thing?
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ASP.NET is cool + DataGrid Designer Tips
Forget my previous rants about ASP.NET. I was plain wrong. This stuff is cool ! I gave myself a little project : create a food ordering site for my company's intranet. Nothing fancy. but it should put me through all the…
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back
Sorry i havn't written in a while. Had lots to learn. will post shortly..
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Code Express - Freeware code sharing client
Code-Express released to the public! beta Code-Express has officially been released to the public. Code-Express is a service to help software developers go beyond their limits, and deliver a high-quality product to…
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A thought
Is XML to applications (or distributed applications) like paper is to people??
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Hit Count
I do wonder when will we be able to see the hit count for the blog(or for each post fo that matter..) although what we have so far is cool in it's own right ;) god speed, scott!
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ASP.NET + good news
Good news and bad news. the good news are that i got another 2 job interviews for next week. One on sunday for a small company for a position of a C# Team Leader on windows applications. The second one is next thursday…
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Design Patterns in C#
The data & object factory folks have a pretty cool list of design patterns all in C#. It looks like a comprehensive list drawn from the Gang of Four book . [ StronglyTyped ] Cool! The actual source for each pattern is…