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Over the past couple of years I have written and presented on custom HttpModules . One of my examples is how to spin up a background thread to perform work not related to processing a web request. I thought I would extend the usefulness of this technique
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I am sure just about any of us that have done any development work against a database, and who hasn’t, has come across this error, ‘String or binary data would be truncated’. This is really a warning more than it is an error, but will
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In college I majored in polymer chemistry and I thought I would use some of that chemistry today to demonstrate how to use Dictionary(of TKey, TValue) (VB.NET), Dictionary<TKey, TValue> (C#) class. The generic Dictionary(of TKey, TValue) class is
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Dealing with Null values (nothing in VB.NET) is a common problem for programmers of any stripe. Null dates stored in the database seem to be a common issue developers experience when they start dealing with null values. Null values in the database for
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So I like VB better than C# for many reasons. Primarily because development experience in VB is built to help productivity. The Development experience in C# is built around being proud of the language rather than solving problems quickly. I could point
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I was perusing the ASP.NET forums tonight and saw an entry where the person was asking on help on getting the number of days in a month in .NET . While the asker was making a simple mistake and could not see the forest for the trees, it got me thinking
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