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Excellent IIS Metabase Helper

Excellent IIS Metabase Helper Found this : http://agramont.net/blogs/provware/default.aspx http://agramont.net/blogs/provware/archive/2006/07/31/Provware_3A00_-Getting-Started-_2800_Build-001_2900_.aspx Has the potential to be an excellent Metabase wrapper.

Paul Hayman - 2,110 views

Why we use C# for .NET development

Why we use C# for .NET development In the company where we work, we have a policy of using Java for all major developments. The core reason behind this being that we have a long term aspiration to being vendor and platform independent. Regards the .NET framework the policy is to

Dave Howard - 38,206 views

Bug in VS2005? Using Typed DataSets with SQL 2005 and stored procedures

Bug in VS2005? Using Typed DataSets with SQL 2005 and stored procedures I have been a fan of typed datasets since I started using them in VS2005. Using the feature with SQL Express/stored procedures, Express/SQL Statements, SQL Server/SQL Statements all generate my DAL just fine. However, I

Dave Howard - 10,193 views

Getting on the Vista developers merry-go-round

Getting on the Vista developers merry-go-round Trying to keep up with the various Vista Beta releases? Want to develop but not sure which version will work on your platform? Here's a useful set of links to make sure you get the right version of the runtime, SDK, Orcas VS extensions and

Mark Page - 3,435 views

Extending Strongly Typed Datasets

Extending Strongly Typed Datasets Strongly Typed Datasets are a rather nice addition to VS2005 (they don't lend themselves well to acronyms however) You still need to create a database and tables and realationships but using STDs saves a writing huge amount of code. If this code

Dave Howard - 6,328 views

Evaluating Expressions

Evaluating Expressions You can evaluate sums in the fly using .net DataTables. This is how you do it (C# 2005). string sum = "(1+2)/4"; System.Data.DataTable evaluator = new System.Data.DataTable("temp"); double result;   resu

Paul Hayman - 5,271 views