A very interesting article here: Comparisons with Generics
A very interesting article here: Comparisons with Generics
In XPO, an ORM product by Developer Express, it’s possible to use a custom “value converter” to persist information when the standard mapping techniques are not sufficient. This provides a flexible approach that can be used in many different scenarios.
Although the Developer Express knowledge base provides an article that shows how to persist a bitmap, I had never actually used that approach. With .NET 2.0, I was thinking about persisting nullable types and I found that XPO …
A very nice article here that rings a lot of bells: The Truth About Real Programmers - John Topley’s Weblog
In a recent MSDN TV interview, Mike Clark talked about (and demonstrated) the capabilities of the technology in the System.Transactions namespace, coming in .NET Framework 2.0. In other blog postings, such as in Angel Saenz-Badillos’ posting Whidbey ADO.NET System.Transactions Distributed Transactions and in Florin Lazar’s posting Transactions made easy: System.Transactions I found additional information on the topic. But all those publications have one thing in common: they look at the technol …
I just stumbled upon a very useful free tool that I didn’t know yet: Wink. Their own description from the website says:
Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots of your software, use images that you already have, type-in explanations for each step, create a navigation sequence complete with buttons, delays, titles etc and create a highly effe …
In newsgroup post in the Developer Express support newsgroup for their XPO product, I was recently asked if it was possible to show information that’s really stored in a one-to-many relationship as additional columns on the main object. Actually, .NET makes this possible using an implementation of the ITypedList interface together with a custom property descriptor — in this way, arbitrary additional properties on an object can be “simulated”, regardless of the real source of the data. First, …
While I was trying what the best way would be to include C# code in my blog, I found that WordPress has problems with <pre> tags: it inserts <br> and <p> tags all over the place, trying to preserve XHTML validity. While I do like the validity idea, I don’t like the fact that it becomes more or less impossible to use the <pre> tag to publish code.
Looking around, I found the two modules that I need to get back proper <pre> functionality and a little nice highlighting for C#: the Synta… …