July 2007 - Posts
I am happy to report that the .Net StockTrader Benchmark Application (and subsequent source code) are now released. Visit: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/bb499684.aspx Also, this is one of the first times that a benchmark application has
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The problem with programming sometimes is learning the annoyances that plague a development language. I was troubleshooting my SQL DAL, which instead of using the "it COULD work with every data provider" (the caveat being - if the only data relationships
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Adding Event logging works the same with VISTA as it does in XP. Unfortunately there is no programmic method to make it work the first time. The symptoms are you check and check the event logs to see where your entries are but alas nothing. Under VISTA
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A few days ago, I closed the laptop lid on my Toshiba and went to where I was going. It never came out of standby and as a result - had to cold power it. Unfortunately for me, I had Visual Studio open, and when I re-opened my solution - only 36 of the
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In the world of adopting .Net as a programming language of choice, the ultimate question is, "Where are the samples I can learn from". If you are reading this, you learned your basics maybe on your own or from some programing class, but you probably actually
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No matter what kind of project one develops, there usually is a requirement to use some sort of external service such as a database engine, WPF service, and the likes. Especially when dealing with a web application that needs to be online at all times,
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Having spent a good two hours troubleshooting the : An attempt to attach an auto-named database for file D:\Sites-Easy\Web\App_Data\LocalRepository.mdf failed. A database with the same name exists, or specified file cannot be opened, or it is located
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