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  • VB Import Alias

    Tuesday, August 12, 2003
    M. Keith Warren points out that in C#, you can use the using statement to also create an alias to a particular class to save you some typing. I honestly thought that didn't work, but I'm glad I'm wrong, that's cool. VB.NET can do the same thing. Importscfg = System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings Thought I'd also mention another way the using statement can be used in C# (but unfortunately has no equivelant in VB.NET) to automatically dispose of a variable when you're done (when the block of code ends). using (SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection()){ // do something with con} Even if you
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  • Jimmy Nilsson *subscribed*

    Monday, August 11, 2003
    Frans posted a link to a post from Jimmy. He talks about “why“ being more important than “how“ and “what“. I love this guy already! Bet you never would've guessed that from some of my other entires! ;) *subscribed*
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  • HC Gets Internationalized

    Monday, August 11, 2003
    Just thought this was pretty neat. Ran across an article I did like...a million years ago...ok, just over a year ago on DotNetJunkies, except, not in English! :-| Integrare Macromedia Flash MX e Microsoft ASP.NET I love you Google! :D
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  • Roaming Online Identity

    Sunday, August 10, 2003
    So I was talking to Brian on MSN about Robert's entry and about some of the new features that the new ASP.NET Forums have implemented and are working on implementing such as newsgroup access in the forums. Brian then mentioned how he hated how long DNS takes to propigate throughout the world, especially on a new domain and totally I agreed. I then got to thinking about how DNS works and I was reminded of an idea I had, so whether Brian wanted to hear about it or not, he did and now, whether you want me to post about
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  • CommandBehavior.SingleRow

    Sunday, August 10, 2003
    I'm working on a chapter on ADO.NET and am going through documentation to make sure I have everything perfect and I came across something I hadn't noticed before. I'm sure I'm the last yahoo to see this, but hopefully not, since the point of this post is to help anyone that hasn't seen this option yet, but often times I need something halfway in between ExecuteScalar and ExecuteReader. You know, those times when you want to return more than one field, but the DataReader seems like overkill since you know you will only be returning one row every time. An
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  • RSS...Authentication...and why?

    Sunday, August 10, 2003
    Just sitting here thinking, man...it would be so nice if I could subscribe to a feed from my bank. See in my RSS aggregator every time a new transaction occurs in my bank account. Or maybe also one for my investments, so I can see when a purchase or sale goes through or maybe when any of my stocks goes through the roof or through the floor. Sure, I could sign up to be notified from through e-mail or something like that, but it would be a lot nicer to know everything going on from my aggregator. The problem is
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  • ASP.NET ToolBox

    Sunday, August 10, 2003
    Scott Mitchell has started a great new resource called the ASP.NET ToolBox. Check out his post on it for more information on it, where he got the idea and how you can help out!
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  • Who Loves Naming Conventions? *raises hand*

    Thursday, August 07, 2003
    I've been posting about naming conventions lately and of course have been finding that as usual, most people think I am a big idiot! It's cool everyone, I already knew that...so there! :P But look, it's another thread on the subject and so happens to be on a subject I've been preaching on for a while, dealing with naming Stored Procedures, so I have a lot of respect for Phil posting this one and a damn good reason for doing it other than just a personal preference! On that note also, who out there prefixes their database Table names out
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  • MSDN's RSS Feeds Suggestion

    Thursday, August 07, 2003
    Another free idea from yours truely. Someone needs to create a better RSS feed for MSDN. Maybe one that goes out and consumes all of them, filters through them, stripping out duplicates, adding categories, etc, so for example the last entry that just showed up 5 times in my SharpReader, would only show up ONCE, but just be under 5 different categories. I'm sure there are a lot of us out there that are not only interested in one subject on MSDN. I'd do it myself, but don't have the time or hosting to take care of it. Hey Microsoft...want
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  • VB.NET: Dynamic Arrays

    Thursday, August 07, 2003
    Matthew Reynolds' great tip reminded me of something especially for everyone using VB.NET. This is probably common knowledge for people who have been using VB.NET for quite a while, but for those just moving from VB6, dynamic arrays can be a major performance pitfall when migrating. Under the covers, when you call ReDim Preserve MyArray(5), VB.NET will actually take the array as it stands before that statement, create a copy of it with the additional positions needed (or a smaller size), then destroy the original copy. This is because there really isn't such a thing as a “dynamic array“ in
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