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The Enum keyword allows you to define a standard set of named constants for use in your application. Sometimes you may want to present this same list of  values to your user. You can display the set of Enum values in a ComboBox or ListBox using data binding. And even better, if you use the DescriptionAttribute in the Enum, you can display a more user-friendly set of values. For example, a Customer business object may have a CustomerType defined with a specific set of options for corp ... [ read more ]
A few friends have pointed out that my post discussing my disappointment with Workflow 4.0 was somewhere between difficult and incomprehensible if you have no idea what's actually changed. Maurice posted this which gives some additional background.
Most business applications have business objects such as customer, order, or invoice. Often, the data access layer (DAL) provides the data and your code needs to use that data to manually populate a business object. This post describes how to manually populate a business object from a DataTable. It uses the Customer class defined here . The code is first shown in both VB and C#. It is then described in detail below. In C#: public static List<Customer> Retrieve() { ... [ read more ]
This post details how to use the DataTable Visualizer. The DataTable Visualizer is a debugging tool that allows you to see and edit the contents of a DataTable while you are debugging. NOTE: There is also a DataSet Visualizer that works the same way for DataSets instead of DataTables. To use the DataTable Visualizer: Set a break point on any line of code after you have a DataTable populated.   Run your application until it stops at the break point.   ... [ read more ]
On Wednesday I spoke at EastBay.NET User’s group at our new Livermore location and I have to say it was a TON of fun. I don’t think I’ve had this much fun speaking in a while. Deborah has an awesome recap of the event . We were afraid that we’d have low attendance because of the switch in venue but it was a great turnout! I did the same talk that I had done at DevTeach which I wrote about here . I guess the third time’s a charm because I had people laughing and learning at the same time ... [ read more ]
At CodeStock, I attended Rod Paddock's intro to JQuery session since I hadn't played with JQuery yet. As often happens when I go to conferences, being in the different environment starts to get the mind thinking in different ways. Sometimes the benefit of the conference isn't necessarily something stated directly, but rather a thought when the mind wanders. One such thought occurred during Rod's presentation where I thought that it might be interesting to "query" sets of text over a larger do ... [ read more ]


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