Switch Statements with Enums best practice(devlicio.us)

submitted by dwhittaker(13.1k) 4 years, 11 months ago

Thoughts about best practice for handling Switch statements using Enums read more...

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Slightly more dynamic ORDER BY in SQL Server 2005(john-sheehan.com)

submitted by rimsystems(6119) 5 years, 1 month ago

When CASE isn't enough and dynamic SQL isn't an option, here's a method for using dynamic ORDER BYs in SQL 2005. Supports multiple columns and sort directions. read more...

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HOWTO: Use Windows PowerShell Drives and Providers(blogs.ittoolbox.com)

submitted by plbyrd(825) 5 years, 1 month ago

Examples of the Windows PowerShell Drives in action as well as basics on extending the Drives available to PowerShell. read more...

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Overview of WCF/SOA(gabe19.blogspot.com)

submitted by jmbledsoe(460) 5 years, 1 month ago

An introduction to and overview of SOA, the WS-* specifications, and how WCF makes them accessable to .NET developers. Material is rooted in Juval Lowy's presentations at SD West 2007. read more...

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The Power of Dynamic SQL: DynamicQuery class - Introduction(maxtoroq.wordpress.com)

submitted by maxtoroq(170) 5 years, 1 month ago

Building provider independent data-driven applications that uses static queries can be a lot of work. Even more work needs to be done to use dynamic queries, specially in parsing and validating user input, and building the command string. The DynamicQuery class can do all of that work for you and much more! read more...

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Sandboxie(sandboxie.com)

submitted by veverkap(815) 5 years, 2 months ago

"When you run a program on your computer, data flows from the hard disk to the program via read operations. The data is then processed and displayed, and finally flows back from the progam to the hard disk via write operations. Sandboxie changes the rules such that write operations do not make it back to your hard disk by using a transient storage system." read more...

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Gain Control Of Your Control State(haacked.com)

submitted by Haacked(5105) 5 years, 2 months ago

A Primer on the less well known cousin to ViewState, the Control State. Contains an interesting demo of the two types of state persistence side by side. read more...

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Implementing baked-in Ruby syntactic sugar via LINQ(tkachenko.com)

submitted by yesthatmcgurk(4063) 5 years, 2 months ago

The flexibility and power of LINQ and extension methods in .NET 3.0 make it easy to emulate some of the baked-in functions of the Ruby language. Here's a short example of how to implement my fav Ruby method: to_s! using System.Linq; public static class RubyShizzle { public static string to_s(this object source) { return source.ToString(); } } read more...

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Java and .NET generics(buunguyen.net)

submitted by qn111(575) 5 years, 2 months ago

Compare the implementation of generics in .NET and Java read more...

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LINQ Farm: One to Many and Joins(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by CharlieCalvert(7875) 5 years, 2 months ago

This post is the latest in a series of posts on LINQ. It continues the exploration of LINQ to SQL by showing several intermediate level queries. LINQ to SQL provides developers with access to relational databases from inside a CSharp program. I'm going to show three different queries in this post. The first will demonstrate how to create a simple one-to-many, the second how to create a one-to-many that spans three tables, and the third will show how to create a simple join. read more...

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The IDE does NOT make the developer(jeremyjarrell.com)

submitted by jeremyjarrell(2685) 5 years, 3 months ago

Just a brief comparison of the highs and lows of both SharpDevelop and Visual Studio as well as a discussion of why and why not the quality of your IDE should even matter to a developer. read more...

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Only iterating over the objects you want in a foreach loop(jeremyjarrell.com)

submitted by jeremyjarrell(2685) 5 years, 3 months ago

Have you ever had a collection made of several types which all derive from the same base class? How many times have you needed to iterate the whole collection and check each element to make sure its the type that you want to work with? Here's how to do you type checking completely inline inside of the foreach loop so you only get the objects you want. read more...

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The Case for Lambdas, part 2: Better Generic Type Inference(diditwith.net)

submitted by cls2deg(1535) 5 years, 3 months ago

C# 3.0 Lambda expressions have distinct advantages over C# 2.0 anonymous methods. This article takes a look at how using lambda expressions can improve the compiler's type inference for generic methods. read more...

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Lambda Expressions and Anonymous Methods, part 1: Brevity(diditwith.net)

submitted by cls2deg(1535) 5 years, 3 months ago

At first, the syntax of C# 3.0 lambda expressions can be a bit intimidating. This article unravels the syntax to show that they are really anonymous methods on steroids. read more...

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Creating a Glass Button(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by ekampf(3195) 5 years, 3 months ago

Shows how to create a Glass Button like on Vista's taskbar - see through and have an internal glow. read more...

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C# 3.0 - An Introduction(dotnetslackers.com)

submitted by devreddy(671) 5 years, 3 months ago

Lets take a look at some of the language enhancements in C# 3.0 read more...

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