Using LINQ to XML instead of XmlReader
Previously, I mentioned that I wasn’t sure if using an XmlReader was the best way to fetch the City and State values from the XML response from the Yahoo Maps API: Using reader As XmlReader =...
View ArticleCalling a Web Service with ASP.NET AJAX Client Script
Wow! It’s been waaaaay too long since my last installment – been busy with latest programming contract, not that you care. Since beating the proverbial dead horse is my specialty, this brief post is...
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Check Existing Values with ASP.NET CustomValidator + jQuery $.ajax()
This was selected as an ASP.NET Article of the Day for June 18, 2010 ‘SjAJ’ ASP.NET CustomValidator SjAJ?! Sorry, I couldn’t resist. I had started with AJAX, but thinking now… hmmm, the method being...
View ArticleGetting Value of NEWSEQUENTIALID() on Insert
Recently, I was writing a stored procedure that, at one point, performs an insert into a table that has a GUID (uniqueidentifier) primary key. The default value for this column is set to...
View ArticleUsing Nullable Types to Handle Possible NULL Values From Database
I’d like to describe a techinque that I’ve come up with to handle the ever-present issue of the easiest (best?) way to handle building an object from a database query that may or may not contain NULL...
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Using PHP and MySQL to Create a Simple Contact Form and Results Browser
By request, let’s build a simple Contact Form with a PHP/MySQL backend! (Disclaimer: I don’t pretend to be an expert in PHP [nor .NET for that matter!], so please understand that the way I go about...
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Typesafe Enum Pattern in C#/VB.NET
Been doing some thinking about Enum and a couple of its shortcomings. First, let’s create a simple Enum: // C# public enum UsefulItem { Unknown = 0, Foo, Bar, Baz } ' VB.NET Public Enum UsefulItem...
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Setting up VisualSVN for Local Projects
This one is pretty straightforward, but potentially useful to those of you not yet familiar with source control. In a nutshell, source control allows us to keep a historical record of any changes we’ve...
View ArticleEnhancing the TypeSafe Enum Pattern
As I mentioned in my last post about the Typesafe Enum Pattern in C#/VB.NET, I left out a few features that I had originally wanted to include in that post. Namely, these features were nothing more...
View ArticleTake Screenshots Programatically in iOS with Category on UIViewController
Thought I’d share this almost-trivial technique for taking screenshots of an iOS device. This will essentially replicate the user pressing the home & power buttons simultaneously, but will return...
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