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I have recently had the opportunity to work ( once again ) with Oracle. Specifically, I had to create a mechanism that would, based on configurable settings, update either a SQL Server or an Oracle database. In and of itself, this is not particularly
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The application on which I'm working has the opportunity to dynamically load and assembly. Later in the application, one of the types from the loaded assembly need be retrieved using GetType. More specifically, the GetType was performed using a fully
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I ran into a problem yesterday that brought back memories. And not the good kind of memories either. I'm doing some work using TypeConverters. In particular, I'm creating a Windows Forms control that functions in a manner similar to a PropertyGrid, but
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Business has been booming of late at ObjectSharp. Don't know whether it's the weather or the business cycle, but our recent company barbeque had more new faces that I've seen in many years. And we haven't lost any of the old faces either. And yet it doesn't
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It's quite possible this is old news to people, but it took me more than a couple of minutes to find the solution. I was using the FromFile method on the Image class to create a new Image object. When I was done with the Image, I needed to move the file.
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I'm hoping that someone reads this post and corrects me. But I'm not holding out much hope. I don't normally use TableAdapters, but for a small application I decided that they seem like a reasonable choice. And so long as I was using them on my development
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The second annual Toronto Code Camp took place this past Saturday. By all accounts, it was a tremendous success with over 250 people giving their Saturday over to many things technical. I gave a presentation on extending the ObjectDataSource control,
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I just finished attending ObjectSharp's SMART (Software MAnagement Round Table) session on the impact of quality assurance on the development process and had a couple of observations to share. First off, the biggest takeaway from the session is the need
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I'm doing some work creating WebPart components in ASP.NET 2.0 and discovered a dependency that I wasn't initially expecting...the need for a database. It appears that in order to even place a WebPart onto a form, you need to have a database. Or at least
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I was using the BoundField element in ASP.NET 2.0’s GridView control. More specifically, I was attempting to use the DataFormatString element in order to change the look of dates and dollar amounts as they get displayed. Much to my dismay, it didn’t
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