May 2005 - Posts
The most common way I hit a database from ADO.net is to call a storedprocedure, get back a SQLDataReader, and use that to fill some custom I've written. Sometime after that, it's quite common for this object to get XMLserialized. What if , I thought to
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Thanks to Eric Wise , I can't help but do it too. *** :) I am Mario . I like to jump around, and would lead a fairly serene and aimless existence if it weren't for my friends always getting into trouble. I love to help out, even when it puts me at risk.
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My sister works in Melbourne on an IT help-desk for the Salvation Army. She mailed me the other day asking if I new any .net developers in Melbourne who might want a job. I've got no idea what the job would actually entail, but she gave me a very loose
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I'm sure you all know how to use Enums. But have you ever tried to take it just that little bit further? I've played a little bit, as I've posted before . Last night, I had an interesting situation where a stored procedure was returning me an Integer
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There's a couple of times a month or so when I can make predictions about what's going to be in my mail box when I get home. (Note: I said mail box, not inbox. You know, that thing outside your house with a slot in the front. Letters get put in there.)
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I never even realised. w00t! Imports System.ComponentModel <Flags()> _ Public Enum EventTypes ReligiousHoliday = 1 PublicHoliday = 2 Common = 4 Remarkable = 8 OnceInALifeTime = 16 CauseForCelebration = 32 End Enum Public Interface ISpecialEvent
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A strange bug hit me today. Well, it's not so much a bug as a badly reported error. I was making a quick change to a class today - adding one property - and all of a sudden the whole application fell over. What was weird was the error being reported was
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I got sent a link to a strange little flash puzzle today. Supposedly (according to the email, but I think a little bit of an urban legend has grown around it) most people can't can't find their way out of it, and if you can you're one of only about 4000
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I got an email from Tate Needham today, asking if I knew anyone looking for an ASP.net job in Canberra. I don't know anyone currently (that's looking for work :) but he happily said I could reach out to the blog masses. So here's the request: Hi, We (VSoft
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We were bitten by a pretty savage bug today. It started the moment I walked in the door at work, and we didn't have a work around in place until about 4.30 this afternoon - pretty much a full day wasted on a fairly tight schedule. Not happy Jan :( The
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No, it's not that I can't think of anything to write. I just can't find the freakin time to do it! It's almost midnight at the moment, and rather than drag my tired ass to bed I figured I'd come and make a lame-ass post first. Well, the last time I posted
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