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September 2003 - Posts

If you ever wondered how some of the standard .NET classes do the voodoo that they do, now you can find out.  Check out Reflector for .NET.  From the site: “Reflector is a class browser, decompiler and XML documentation browser for .NET components (assemblies). Read More
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I was there on September 27th 2003, when the Chicago Cubs clinched the division. Read More
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Anytime you give a user a list of items to choose from there is always going to be the problem of what to do when the item the user wants is not in that list (dropdown, select box, what-have-you). You normally have two options that you can implement. 1.) Have the user leave the page and enter the item they want in the item creation page. 2.) Allow the user to open up a dialog and create the item right there. Both of these options leave little to be desired. I think I have a better one. Read More
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Steven Smith has a great solution to most magic number problems. Read More
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Ryan likey golf..... Read More
Here's a little trick if you are building a new machine and you don't want to manually re-register all of the servers you currently have in Enterprise Manager on your new machine.  Backup the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft Read More
My laptop is very upset with me.  It has decided that it doesn't want to be a laptop anymore, and that it is quite content with being a paperweight.  I don't know why it's content being a paperweight, SINCE IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE A LAPTOP, but it's happy. Read More
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I'm flattered. Read More
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Well, now that the I completely botched the .Text upgrade on the server and spent all of my free time for the last 2 days replacing content that should have been backed up, I can finally sit back with a glass of wine, some John Mayer and relax.  Yeah Read More
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Well, I really didn't promise it but I had some free time at work waiting for Visual Studio .NET to repair itself. (Why does uninstalling Visual Studio .NET 2002 kill the file associations for Visual Studio .NET 2003?  Can someone explain that one?) Anyway, Read More
After Ray stole my thunder with his Concatination with COALESCE, I guess I'll have to post a different SQL script that I find handy. Many times I see people that need to find how many times a string is located in another instance of a string.  Normally Read More
I don't get it.  I've been developing with .NET now for a couple years and for some strange reason I still work in a couple of projects with ASP.  No, not the ASP.NET with all the object-oriented wonderness.  ASP.  You know, that hideous old stepchild Read More