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Honest Illusion : Creating an Entity Framework connection from another(honestillusion.com)

submitted by JamesCurran2JamesCurran2(129) 9 months, 9 days ago

Database connection strings used to be simple. Well, simple, once you learned the arcane syntax, But, at least they had stayed the same for about a decade. But with the EntityFramework, they took on an even more arcane “connection string – within –a –connection string” format. And while the inner connection string related to your database, the wrapping connection string was intimately tied to the entity context. read more...

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Naked Came The Null Delegate : Chapter 1 – “I, Disposable !”(honestillusion.com)

submitted by JamesCurran2JamesCurran2(129) 1 year, 4 months ago

The start of a collaborative novel of sex, treachery, intrigue, and SEX in the .Net World "Slowly, as the rest of his coworkers drift off towards home, Seymour Sharpton, continued on in his cubical. He didn't mind. He was trying to look busy, but was really just writing on his Facebook wall.. He knew the one other person working late that night. He had carefully arranged for the new intern – the exotic Vissa Basicova – (a pure virtual..." read more...

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Lambda Expressions as Properties(honestillusion.com)

submitted by JamesCurran2JamesCurran2(129) 1 year, 8 months ago

A way of organizing code using Lambda instead of subclasses. read more...

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jQuery.growl Documentation(honestillusion.com)

submitted by JamesCurran2JamesCurran2(129) 3 years, 3 months ago

jQuery.growl is a cool open-source plugin for a cool open-source javascript library. Some just needed to tell people how to used it. read more...

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Lists: Filter, Map and Reduce - and the Magic of IEnumerator.(honestillusion.com)

submitted by JamesCurran2JamesCurran2(129) 3 years, 5 months ago

There are 3 very handy list functions which make dealing with lists a breeze: Map, Filter and Reduce. But along the way of writing them, an important principle of IEnumerator<> comes up. read more...

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The Need for Common Search Keywords.(honestillusion.com)

submitted by JamesCurran2JamesCurran2(129) 3 years, 9 months ago

If you ever tried to Google something like "how to write a linked list in C#" you may have noticed a problem. Most search engines have trouble dealing with the pound sign... read more...

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Joins - LINQ's critical, overlooked feature.(honestillusion.com)

submitted by JamesCurran2JamesCurran2(129) 4 years, 1 month ago

Joins are a vital part of SQL -- but most ORM ignore them -- except for LINQ. read more...

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What's inside a foreach() statement?(honestillusion.com)

submitted by JamesCurran2JamesCurran2(129) 4 years, 8 months ago

A comparision of a foreach() loop and manually looping by calling GetEnumerator() and MoveNext() read more...

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More Fun with C# Interators : A Counting Iterator(honestillusion.com)

submitted by JamesCurran2JamesCurran2(129) 4 years, 9 months ago

A C# Iterator which appears to be a collection filled with a sequence of numbers. read more...

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