Today I've come across an odd problem. I had to set SkinID property of a control dynamically and this step can be achieved only during PreInit event (OnPreInit […]
.net
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Comparing strings
Comparing two strings is easy and simple, right? Wrong. Check out this article which deals with string comparison in .net 2.0. As an exercise guess the output of this piece […]
.net 3.5 / ORM
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Microsoft ORM saga revealed
Matt Warren talks about what happened to ObjectSpaces, WinFS and why [MS] is going with LINQ to SQL as sole ORM product in Orcas wave. Very interesting read I […]
Uncategorized
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Windows Live Writer beta 2
After such a long time we got Windows Live Writer beta 2 available for download. One thing you’ll immediately notice is much improved user interface (snapshot taken in […]
.net / Slovenia / Windows
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Neverending saga of writing data into Program Files folder
Writing application data into Program Files folder is bad. Period. Only the files at install time should be written to Program Files folder. Otherwise one is facing security […]
GPS / Slovenia
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Mountain biking with GPS
I used to mountain bike a lot when I was keh keh younger These days time is more of a luxury and thus I manage only one or […]
Hardware / Windows
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Intel acknowledges that there is a problem with Apple software and their RAID drivers in Vista
I finally contacted [MS] support center about iTunes/Vista/Intel RAID situation (so far I managed to contact only Intel technical support – they said that this isn’t a problem […]
.net
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.net will dive into parallelism
According to Soma .net will push for parallelism. This is hardly a surprise as multicore CPUs and multi CPUs are becoming mainstream. Microsoft Research has already some projects that […]
.net 3.5 / ORM / Slovenia
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My ORM presentations at NT Konferenca 2007 (Slovene event)
A year passed like nothing and NT Konferenca, biggest national [MS] event, is here again. This year I’ll be all ORM oriented, in fact, I’ll give two presentations on […]
.net / .net 3.5
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Inserting records containing timestamp columns in ADO.NET Entity Framework
In case you are playing with ADO.NET Entity Framework you might have seen that, by default, when you have timestamp columns in a new entity they are being inserted […]