This is one of those problems you can’t understand how could it happen. Some background: In the past Visual Stuidio versions you were able to sign an assembly […]

So you’ve build a template (or using one) for CodeSmith that uses SchemaExplorer.DatabaseSchema class – the one that enables you browsing through database schema with ease (through a […]

If you are seriously using CodeSmith you will know about the merge functionality. True, with introduction of partial classes in .net 2 the need for merging is greatly reduced, […]

XPO2 (currently in beta) supports both generics and nullables out of the box. I did a simple test by creating a generic XpCollection: XpCollection<SomeEntity> coll = new XpCollection<SomeEntity>(session1);SomeEntity […]

While it doesn’t have many new features it has two really helpfull features – it runs under .net 2.0 and has a CodeSmith MSBuild task. I think that generics […]

Sahil posted even better way to use Linq over DataTable.Rows collection than the one I blogged about. Use extension method OfType<T> (sounds like a VB.NET method) on non-generic IEnumerable […]

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I see such questions here and there: “Is Linq going to interfere with normal C# 2.0 projects?”. Here is my guess. There are two parts of the issue. […]

Currently you can’t directly use Linq over and DataSet/DataTable/DataRowCollection/etc. class. Trying something like this won’t work: var q = from r in table.Rows select r; Enabling Linq over […]