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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
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
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
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?
