August 2004 - Posts

• Pagination Removed from Whidbey

  One of things featured in the Alpha (Preview Release) is Pagination. How pagination works is the use of the ExecutePageReader method from the DbCommand class. In the Beta One release, the ExecutePageReader method is now obsolute. With the pagination, Read More... Posted Saturday, August 28, 2004 9:34 PM by jlovell | 6 Comments Filed under: Tools and Tips, Programming with .NET

• ASP.NET 2 Page Lifecycle

  I was *just* about to write a huge article on the new page lifecycle for ASP.NET 2 when I ran across this diagram . I guess that a picture can describe more than a thousand words. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! Read More... Posted Monday, August 23, 2004 4:52 PM by jlovell | 1 Comments Filed under: Programming with .NET

• Proof of concept

  Humour post on the way :-). I think that you should read this first before reading the rest of this blog entry. Who wants to know what the proof of design concept? Come'on! It is rather easy. The prototype for that design was to wrap duct-tape... instead Read More... Posted Monday, August 23, 2004 4:49 PM by jlovell | 0 Comments Filed under: Personal / Other / Off topic

• I know of a place...

  ... where computer viruses that live and breed in a very “stable” enviroment. For the last two or threee weeks, I have been working “on and offsite” with the school's computers and every single time, I can garentee you that a virus Read More... Posted Thursday, August 19, 2004 10:18 PM by jlovell | 0 Comments

• Anybody out there?

  [me.exe /sarcastic=true] First of all, I would like to thank every single one of you whom submitted ideas . I would like really extend my gracious thanks to everyone who also got an idea in their head but never told me... [me.exe /sarcastic=false] but Read More... Posted Monday, August 16, 2004 10:15 PM by jlovell | 6 Comments Filed under: Personal / Other / Off topic

• The final count down

  Whoaa! I have been dreaming for a day like this for a long, long, looonnng time. I have just 15 more retarded days to spend with Pascal. After that, I just have to write some documentation on one of my Pascal projects; which I can do within two or three Read More... Posted Saturday, August 07, 2004 7:46 PM by jlovell | 3 Comments Filed under: Personal / Other / Off topic

• Tool to convert VB.NET code to C#?

  I am back! Ok, down to business -- we have all seen/heard (or done) moaning of converting C# code to VB.NET code. So there pops up a few conversion tools for converting C# to VB.NET code! But did anyone even consider the C# guys wanting a tool to convert Read More... Posted Friday, August 06, 2004 5:34 PM by jlovell | 1 Comments Filed under: Tools and Tips, Programming with .NET

• I vow to keep my mouth shut

  Silence is golden. Without going into details and that, I basically have fallen victim to envy. I should not have: Showed true feelings. Been honest. Been truthful. I just can't believe someone waited a while now to take my words, twist and hurl some Read More... Posted Sunday, August 01, 2004 12:15 AM by jlovell | (Comments Off) Filed under: Personal / Other / Off topic