I was asked how do I format code for blog posts. Well, to be honest, most of the code that I write in blog posts (and forum posts) are written on the fly, hence the formatting is also done on the fly. However, when I do come to copying and pasting code, I follow these steps: Copy the code into notepad. Copy the tab character into the ...

Armand did the biggest flop of the day. All I know was gracefully admiring the manual of my next motherboard when a MSN conversation of 12 people popped up with the word “shit” following miliseconds later. At that stage, it was dawned on him that he wanted to add one person to a conversation that he was already having but he instead ...

I just thought it would be beneficial to all if I comment on two comments that I recieved on my article about keeping scrollback position. Let's start off with the contridictary comment: Is this the same code as here, did Justin acknowledge Stanley Glass? Even though it is in VB. I am unsure. Just look at the date of my article and compare it ...

In a previous blog post of mine, I said that Cursors are slow. Little did I know that I was going to come up with an excellent paging solution that... ermm... involved cursors. This took some really abstract thinking to achieve the following script: Declare @TotalRows intSet @TotalRows = @StartRow + @RowCount Declare @PK intDECLARE ...

This has become a FAQ over the time and so I have decided to just write a darn blog post about it. With collection management during design-time is fairly easy. In fact, too easy. However, sooner or later, you would like to have a multi-dimension collection. Let's take for example: [ParseChildren(true, ''Tabs'')][PersistChildren(false)]public ...

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, you can query what section of the data can be read from database. For example, you can say that ...

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 all the VB.NET code to C#? I do not think so. However, there is something that was hiding ...

A while ago, I posted a blog post on how to do the server controls into collections. That blog post was not only a problematic one regarding the VS.NET designer but you would have noticed that those server controls are not given the full 'life' in the page cycle as noted by Auter (he does not know it there but he will know in this blog post ...

Now that I have waded through most of my emails, one of the announcements have to do with an open source IDE called #Develop (pronouced Sharp Develop). Currently, it looks like this IDE for developing .NET applications are really promising: SharpDevelop Fidalgo (1.0) is now feature complete, and we have entered bugfix-only mode (see section ...

I will admit: I am not a master of XML Schemas. So when I see a beginner's resource, I would know what I am talking about because I am one :-). Just five minutes ago, I dwelled across this article: W3C Schema Made Simple It is short and sweet yet explains a lot of things in depth so you can understand what and why you should do certain things.