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My blog of techy stuff, ranging around SQL (SQL Server, that is), C# and .net, JavaScript and a smattering of stuff about the Orchard CMS (that powers my site) as I get more familiar with it. There's the occasional non-technical post when something is of interest to me that I feel is worth sharing, but they should be few and far between
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Delusional Ramblings of an Angry Coder
Take a look at Mark: Ramblings from a programmer, if you dare. Whilst some of the points he makes are good, for example that Visual Studio doesn't inherently encourage programming best practice, i.e. …
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Describing ASP.net Control properties declaratively
One of the beauties of the ASP.net system is the way you can declaratively describe controls that sit on the page, and also the contents of collections that they contain as properties, as shown as an …
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Getting the values from a Datatable column
I couldn't find any better, reusable way to get all the values from a specific column of a datatable, strongly typed than the snippet below:
internal class DataColumnConverter<T> { …
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Using Classic ASP on Vista/Longhorn/IIS7
A couple of days ago I passed comment on Bill Staples (the Product Unit Manager for IIS) blog on a posting he made titled My Take: IIS vs. Apache, a post that's well worth a read even if you only …
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Javascript Intellisense, finally!
It looks like Visual Studio 200n (aka: Orcas) is finally going to have rich Javascript intellisense, hurrah!
Javascript Intellisense in Visual Studio "Orcas"
The format for Javascript doc …
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Converting Request.InputStream to a string - Part 2
Preceded by: Converting Request.InputStream to a string - Part 1 A natural extension to this, is the ability to transform the InputStream (basically the POST data) into an XMLDocument and then parse …
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Converting Request.InputStream to a string - Part 1
Nowhere could I find a simple, concise way of converting the Request.InputStream from an ASP.net page into a string ready for processing, something which is very useful to do if you're passing a …
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Obtaining the string value of an enumeration name
A useful trick I've picked up recently is the ability to get the name of a value of an enumeration in C#. Using the following example enumeration:
enum fruit{ apples, pears, oranges}
The …
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Developers, Developers, Developers ;)
[Via: The JobSyntax Blog]
I came across an interesting blog entry (linked below) that discuss how to keep software developers / engineers (pick your preferred terminology) happy. …
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Parsing an XML file from classic ASP
Part of an application I work on derives some of its configuration from the contents of a global.asa file, with configuration hard-coded. I've been looking at ways of separating the configuration out …