AppDev: Something You Should Know by Irena Kennedy

First, let’s agree on a definition of object oriented programming. It is generally agreed that “software objects” share two characteristics: they all have state and behavior (similar to real-life objects). Behavior is implemented through methods...

What week number (1 through 53) does January 6 th 2008 belong to using the standard US calendar with Sunday being the first day of the week? If you answered ‘1’, that’s incorrect – since Jan. 01, 2008 starts on a Tuesday, Jan. 06 th falls on Sunday and...

Consider the following innocent looking code: [System.Runtime.Serialization. DataContract ] public enum TestEnum : short { [System.Runtime.Serialization. EnumMember ] Undefined = 0, [System.Runtime.Serialization. EnumMember ] TestType1...

Say, you have to pass in a large number of data elements into a web service (to me, more than 5 is “many”). You have a few options – pass them as individual parameters, put them all into one custom serializable class (e.g. MyMethodRequest object), pass...

To my surprise, System.Windows.Controls does not have LinkButton! Perhaps Windows forms shouldn’t use links? But since my UI design team insisted on having them, I’ve created my own LinkButton (code below)… As always – use at your own risk… this code...

Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace has a handy class, ControlChars, with the following public fields: Back, Cr, CrLf, FormFeed, Lf, NewLine, NullChar, Quote, Tab, VerticalTab. After seeing some C# developers use it just for the simplicity of code like this...

Did you know that SQL 2005 Database Engine Tuning Advisor (replacement for SQL 2000 Index Tuning Wizard) can do its analysis using production server’s hardware configuration information, metadata and statistics, but perform the actual tuning on a test...

I just came across an excellent post by Ian Morrish that gives simple step-by-step instructions (with images!) on how to integrate with Windows Live search. First, download the SDK and create an application ID at http://search.msn.com/developer...