August 2005 - Posts

Friday, August 26, 2005 3:28 PM

New MSDN Subscriptions site and VS2005 August CTP

After a day or two of maintenance , the revamped MSDN subscriptions site appears to be up and running. One of the new downloads available is of course a full set of Visual Studio 2005 August CTP builds, including VSTO and VSS. And to complement that,
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Wednesday, August 24, 2005 1:08 AM

IM Madness

I installed not one, but two IM clients today. The first was MSN Messenger upgrade (7.5). Nothing radical here. Then I tried freshly baked Google Talk ... Installation went smoothly and while installing, it detected existing installation of Gmail Notifier
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Friday, August 19, 2005 12:00 AM

Versioning with Version class

Sometimes you need to provide versioning functionality for your custom data, databases, etc. For handling version information inside your application you can use data types like string or int , or go with the Version class, which you commonly use when
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Monday, August 15, 2005 5:14 AM

Parsing dates

A rediscovered oldie: when dealing with some old, legacy code, you could find yourself wrestling with very oddly formatted data. One of the more common types the .NET framework can easily help you with, are the date/time values. For example, to convert
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Saturday, August 13, 2005 1:15 PM

ConnectionString builders

Implementing database login functionality in your application usually requires you to build your database connection string in code. There are many ways to do that, and new classes in .NET Framework 2.0 (or better - ADO.NET) adds another one. ADO.NET
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Wednesday, August 10, 2005 7:08 PM

Moved...

This is the first post in a new environment . You can access my old blog through this address . I'll redirect my RSS feed to the new blog in a day or two..
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