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The Yanks/Sox Rivalry Resumes Tonight: The Unit vs Boomer!

31 January 2008 All

Being a die hard Yankee [http://www.yankees.com]fan and a baseball fan in general, I cannot wait to see the Yanks take the Red Sox on tonight [http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?page=redsoxyankees]in the Bronx. I just hope it does not get rained out. Its just a lot of fun to watch the story un

ADO.NET 2's SqlConnectionStringBuilder

31 January 2008 All

The ADO.NET team is working on a building an object called SqlConnectionStringBuilder. The object is intended to assist in building connections string. Pretty basic concept and if you use config files to store your connection strings, you may not take advantage of it (but still could). But if you ar

ADO.NET Performance Test: Getting a Single Value

31 January 2008 All

I ran some tests using ADO.NET to measure the time it takes to retrieve a single value from a database. All of my tests had the following attributes: * Each test gets the CompanyName for the specified CustomerID (in Northwind) * The same connection string, using integrated security * Stored pr

Binding Children Rows to a DataGrid with ADO.NET DataRelations

31 January 2008 All

Over the past few days I've had a few questions regarding a situation where there is a list of parent rows (let's say Orders) loaded into a dropdown list and a list of child rows (let's say Order Details) loaded into a grid. The idea being that when the user selects the Order from the dr

C# Casting Quiz

31 January 2008 All

There are several ways to convert and cast values in .NET. For example, DirectCast versus System.Convert and if you are a VB.NET'er, you have the CInt, CBool, Cxxx functions. It is along these lines that I offer this quiz: What are the differences between the following ways to cast an object?

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Hi, I'm John Papa. I author this blog, create courses for Pluralsight, and work in Developer Relations. I am a professional storyteller, I contribute to OSS, and I'm a Web technologist

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