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January 2007 - Posts

Friday, January 26, 2007 10:05 AM

C#/VB.NET Convertors

I want to thank Dave for the great C#/VB.NET Convertor tool that his company (Tangible Software Solutions Inc.) owns! This tool comes in two flavours: 1- Instant VB 2- Instant CSharp You can convert your code from C# to VB.NET or from VB.NET to C# in
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Friday, January 26, 2007 6:32 AM

The Dream - Episode 4

Those of you following my blog must have checked some posts for me about The Dream . If you didn't, check it here . In this Episode, I am going to announce THE DREAM!! In March 2007, I will be publishing my first printed article in a very popular magazine!
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007 8:57 PM

Creating a Custom ExpressionBuilder in ASP.NET 2.0

I kindly invite you to check my latest article on www.aspalliance.com under the title of: Creating a Custom ExpressionBuilder in ASP.NET 2.0 Hope you will enjoy it! Regards
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007 11:29 AM

ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Released

Scott Guthrie just announced the release of the ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 . Check his post here: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Released Regards
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007 11:21 AM

StatementCompleted Event in SqlCommand

A new Event in ADO.NET 2.0 has been addeed to the SqlCommand object called the *StatementCompleted* event. Usually, if you are executing a set of UPDATE statements on your database as a batch using ExecuteNoneQuery() method, you get the number of affected
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Sunday, January 21, 2007 5:28 AM

ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming Problem - Design - Solution

I have just finished submitting my book review on ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming Problem - Design - Solution to www.aspallance.com It is just a wonderful book that I recommend every serious ASP.NET developer to read it! The book is an accompanying documentation
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Thursday, January 18, 2007 12:03 AM

Server Variables

I always find a difficulty in remembering all the server variables and how they can help me, here is a list of all the server variables I ran in a testing application. You will see the server variables with a sample data coming from the testing application:
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007 8:49 PM

Transactions in .NET 2.0

I was introduced yesterday to the new namespace in .NET 2.0 about Transactions. Transactions at the business layer (C# domain objects) without the use of COM+ Transactions. There are two kinds Light Weight that depends on the SQL Server 2005 (single connection),
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007 2:19 AM

CS Search Engine Breaks

When I upgraded my site from CS 2.0 to CS 2.1, the Search Engine broke down! All my old posts were unable to be searched! Read on those two posts and your problem will be solved: The Official "My CS Search Isn't Working" Thread Search Issue Hope this
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 8:41 PM

Mono Project 1.2 Released

The Mono project 1.2 is now released. For those of you who don't know what Mono is, it provides you with an environment to run .NET code on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS, and Windows. Check it out here: Mono-Project Hope this helps, Regards
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 12:40 AM

Creating a Custom BuildProvider in ASP.NET 2.0

I kindly invite you to check my 14 th article on www.aspalliance.com under the title of: Creating a Custom BuildProvider in ASP.NET 2.0 . In summary, this article discusses a new feature in ASP.NET 2.0, which allows you to have an XML file, and represent
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Monday, January 15, 2007 8:39 PM

SQL Server 2005 Express Edition for Beginners

Check out this lovely SQL Server 2005 Express tutorials' page. It includes so many videos to help beginners with SQL Server 2005 Express put their feet on the ground and start using it! I highly recommend checking it out! SQL Server 2005 Express Edition
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Sunday, January 14, 2007 11:01 AM

Site upgrade to CS 2.1

I have successfully upgraded my website from CS 2.0 Beta 3 to CS 2.1 SP2. I had several problems at first, but thanks to Webhost4life.com support and Rick Reszler I was able to upgrade the site. Thanks again Rick and special thanks to Rob Howard with
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Sunday, January 07, 2007 9:14 PM

Mover List Control for ASP.NET 1.x/2.0

I kindly invite you to read my latest article on ASPAlliance.com: Mover List Control for ASP.NET 1.x/2.0 Hope you enjoy it! Regards
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Friday, January 05, 2007 11:01 AM

Session on Generics in .NET 2.0

On Thursday, January 4, 2007 I gave a session on Generics - .NET 2.0 for my students at the training center. The material I had didn't include any chapter on this topic, so I prepared a small power point from the Visual C# - Complete Reference and you
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007 8:55 AM

Session - Collections in .NET 2.0

On Tuesday, January 2, 2007 I gave a session on Collection - .NET 2.0 for my students at the training center. The material I had didn't include any chapter on this topic, so I prepared a small power point from the Visual C# - Complete Reference and you
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