Daily Archives: January 15, 2004

Typed Datasets and Molasses

dotNET

I have used typed datasets in a few cases where I have to build a dataset from xml data or something along those lines. Most of the things I didn’t like about them expressed nicely by Shawn Wildermuth, (THE ADO Guy) and Rick Strahl here and here, I just dealt with because I wasn’t using them extensively throughout my apps, but just to solve a few specific problems. However, I now have an issue with datasets that I don’t want to put up with – instantiating a new object based on a typed dataset. WTF – it takes for freakin’ ever!

OK I feel better now.

Spalding Gray

Purely Personal

This is an awful story  – I adore Spalding Gray.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/15/missing.actor/index.html

It is only speculation at this point.

This is not unusual for highly creative people – many very very famous, of course Virginia Woolf comes quickly to mind. I have a friend who had been autistic as a child, grew out of it (or just adapted to the outside world), was a very energetic woman, talented artist, creative on many fronts (thanks surely to whatever crossed wires had attributed also to her autism) but also suffered severe, inexplicable depression and eventually committed suicide. It was a heartbreaking loss of a person who brought so much joy to so many people.

The Disappearing Form Designer

dotNET

Every once in a while, while working on a windows app in VS.NET2003, I lose the design view of a particular form. The solution Explorer only displays it as a class and there is no way to access the design view of the form. The components all still exist in the code. It’s a little bit of a heart stopper. But then removing and then readding the project from the solution brings back the form. ‘Sup with that?

-22 F

Vermont

That’s the temp when I walked the dog this morning. No wind and very sunny so it did not seem unbearable. Yesterday was -18 when we went out in the a.m. Needless to say, these are short walks!