Professional ASP.NET - Chris Love's Official Blog

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 a value type poses a problem in the application. The .NET framework provides Nullable Types, a ...

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 out many things and have yet to really hear a good argument favoring C#. The only thing C# seems ...

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 about why there was no overloads to simply return the number of days by passing in a date. The ...