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    I've always found ListViews quite fascinating. Slightly confusing sometimes, but fascinating nevertheless.   As I have often been heard to say, it's the little things that'll trip you up.     Take, for instance, the subject of this blog - copying an item between ListViews. The scenario is that you let the user click on an item in ListView1 and if they want this item copied to ListView2, they hit a button. Now, you would p ... [ read more ]
The Visual Basic 2008 conditional If operator tests an expression and returns a value using short-circuit evaluation to conditionally return one of two values. Unlike the IIF runtime function the conditional If operator only evaluates its operands if necessary. In the code below , If(divisor <> 0, number \ divisor, 0) ,will not throw an exception if the value of number is 0.         Dim number As Integer = 10 ... [ read more ]
I have used EF with SQL Server 2008 & 2005, Pro, Standard and Express. I have not every bothered playing with CE, because for the most part the experience should be the same. But there are a few places where you might run into trouble. One is related to connecting to the database and has nothing to do with EF, meaning that you can experience this with other data access technologies as well. The other has to do with the newSequentialID type which is not supported. The first of these pro ... [ read more ]
Most recently I’ve been working on a project using Developer Express controls and i am taking this moment to write a brief review about it. I will not recite the feature list because it’s boring and tedious so here we go. Many of you have probably experienced the frustration of not having ideas for how to develop one of those attractive GUI’s. We all have seen some great applications with good GUI but, developing an application that has a “sexy” GUI is the har ... [ read more ]


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