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Kathleen Dollard is building a list for C# devs who are going to be building projects in VB. Read more [A New DevLife Post]
I’ve repurposed this list and thus am making it a new post, linked from the previous. I realize this is long for a blog post, and that it changes too much, so I will be moving it to a page, once I rebuild my site (a great embarrassment). Initially I wanted a quick list of “ways to go wrong” when switching from C# to VB. As it evolved, the line blurred between common mistakes that might make you look dumb to some rather nuanced differences between C# and VB. As Eric Meijer says – VB is not C# ... [ read more ]
One of the key things that LINQ to SQL does for us is offers a quick way to fill a set of objects with data from a database. Typically this is done by setting up some mapping and calling the GetTable method on the DataContext. There are cases, particularly when you already have an infrastructure set-up to populate objects using a DbDataReader, where it would be nice if you could just populate the columns without the need to set-up a mapping. The DataContext has a little known method called Tr ... [ read more ]
I couldn't wait for the content pages to prop onto MSDN to tell you that I just uploaded two more WPF Forms over Data videos and code samples onto Code Gallery: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/wpfdatavideos , videos 3 and 4. Video #3 shows how to create a dropdown combobox (pick-list) that pulls data from a lookup table in a database. #4 shows a technique for customizing the display of validation messages on controls (for more details on that you can read this post too .) Enjoy!


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