Jul
19
Add Additional Information to Your Exceptions
When Enterprise Library was called Microsoft Application Blocks, if you wanted to log an Exception, you would write (assuming “ex” is an Exception): ExceptionManager.Publish(ex); And if you wanted to log some extended properties you could Read More...
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May
14
Fun with #region
I am not sure if I did this on accident, or my intern did it, but I found this in my code: #region Constructors//code here #endregion Constructors I was not aware you can put a tag after #endregion. Kind of nice to clearly delineate long regions. Not Read More...
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May
12
Learning C# over VB.NET
I just finished writing a long 'ol email to a friend who wants to do a project in VB.NET since his background is in legacy ASP. Although my points have been illustrated by many over and over, I thought I would post what I wrote in the hopes others Read More...
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Apr
15
Hiding a Row in ASP.NET
Many things that I come across are "No Duh". This is one of them. I frequently see code from other programmers that incorrectly use Panel for the purpose of hiding content. What they don't understand is that a Panel tag renders a table, Read More...
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Apr
08
ReSharper Help and Tutorial
I have found that for me, ReSharper wasn't even close to as great a help until I changed my operating basis regarding how I write code. Many times there are many subtle things you do differently, which just causes pain with ReSharper. It also wasn't Read More...
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Aug
18
Binding a DropDownList to an Enumeration
Ok, well its not really binding to it. But at least it is close : (foreach(EnumNameHere enum in Enum.GetValues(typeof(EnumNameHere))){ DropDownListNameHere.Items.Add( new ListItem(enum.ToString(), Convert.ToInt32(enum).ToString()) );} Pretty Nifty. I Read More...
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Jul
15
String to Enum
I have to do this now and then and each time I don't write this code perfect the first time. I either forget the typeof statement or to cast, etc. But, if you have a string, “Yoda” and you want to set an Enum called "Jedi", this Read More...
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