February 2006 - Posts

How is the .NET Framework like Home Depot?
Published 02-27-2006 3:53 AM | jokiz
Found this interesting analogy for the .NET framework: http://ftponline.com/weblogger/forum.aspx?ID=18&DATE=12/14/2005 Many people are intimidated by .NET. To explain why, I've been using a metaphor. For a developer doing routine work, I think figuring...
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TDS Protocol
Published 02-26-2006 2:24 AM | jokiz
For most of you who have been using stored procedures and following the MS guidelines in .NET Application Development, you must have been using SET NOCOUNT ON as stated in Chapter 12 of the Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability . Although...
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Hello readers!
Published 02-21-2006 5:10 PM | jokiz
I just got a positive feedback from a developer from UK about my EnumDescription post and comments like this urges me to post more helpful topics in .NET development. Aggregated views for this blog is rising (I'm hitting almost 100 now) and I rarely have...
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VS useful shortcuts
Published 02-21-2006 5:44 AM | jokiz
was reading some of my .NET feeds when i bumped into Roy's post on VS shortcuts Press Ctrl-X or Ctrl-C in a line where you have *no selection* - and you'll automatically copy or cut the entire current line. Save lots of time and pain, and just isn't well...
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SELECT COUNT(QUANTITY)
Published 02-14-2006 3:24 AM | jokiz
i just got back from an interview with another local company after being invited by their CEO to explore my opportunities with them. it was unexpected that i scheduled for an interview today and you can find the reason on my personal blog (if you have...
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google groups update
Published 02-10-2006 7:21 AM | jokiz
i was surprised earlier today when i visited the google groups to find out their latest changes. you now have a public profile page where you can add additional information about yourself. it even keep tracks of your previous posts just like "my forums...
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VG.NET
Published 02-09-2006 8:21 PM | jokiz
while i was doing some control development a year ago, this guy named frank hileman has helped me a lot particularly with the designtime environment of windows forms. he was among the first guys who explored the designtime world of .NET and windows forms...
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avoid P/INVOKE or COM Interop if possible
Published 02-09-2006 6:09 PM | jokiz
i was debugging this activex control used in my current project when i bumped into this wrapper class for an interop with kernel32.dll methods. after browsing the documentation, it says that the following functions are provided for win16 support. how...
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type comparisons
Published 02-09-2006 4:40 PM | jokiz
i just browsed on the windows forms designer section of msdn forums and i see a post of this guy helping another about designers of course. what hit me was the way he tests if an object instance is of certain type foreach (Control control in this .Controls...
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test driven development
Published 02-09-2006 3:41 AM | jokiz
i have long wanted to do test-driven development and currently i've been reading a number of articles about it (before implementing it of course). i've just read the Test-Driven Development in .NET article of Peter Provost in CodeProject and what struck...
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viewing directory file size on windows explorer
Published 02-08-2006 4:51 AM | jokiz
i was about to install vs 2005 on my machine when i figured that i needed more space. i wanted to find the size of each folder in the root directory of my C drive (the guy who used this computer is very organized) so i searched usenet and was lucky to...
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adding gac assemblies to add reference assembly listing
Published 02-08-2006 4:11 AM | jokiz
i am currently exploring log4net and how to use it to my newly assigned project. i downloaded the source code and i needed to install it in the gac so i can easily reference it in my projects. i tried to rebuild the source and had some problem with strong...
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IE7
Published 02-08-2006 4:10 AM | jokiz
i just installed IE7 beta, and i liked it. It was the first time that i used a tabbed browser and it helps a lot. A lot of people here are already using firefox though. I liked the new default font, Verdana, my Visual Studio code editor font, although...
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ViewState persistence in ASPNET
Published 02-01-2006 5:20 AM | jokiz
It was my first time to develop an ASPNET application in my previous company and one thing i noticed was the way they persist control/usercontrol properties through ViewState. Here is a snippet of their control property: public int MyProperty { get {...
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