I don’t remember seeing this in the past, but the Feb CTP bits have a hissy fit if you change the name of a control on a web form or windows form. Web Forms want to refactor your code behind for you. Sometiems it hangs. WinForms throws a whole lot of compile time errors to the Error reporting system, but then gives control back with nothing lost. Beware… 🙂
I’m fiddling around with nullable types in Whidbey and just discovered a DataRow property that is not even new, but I had never known was there (or maybe it flew by me once but it didn’t stick in my brain):
DataRow.IsNull(“mycolumnname”)
Obviously invaluable when dealing with value types.
I guess in the 3 years I have been doing .NET, I just hadn’t needed it. My main production app has a sql server database that started out being used by VB5 then VB6, so I was used to not creating DateTime columns as nullable, or dealing with nulls directly in the stored procedures. Well, I’ll be!
So I popped over to blog feed reader and I see “Got Indigo Day” in Boston. I can’t see the whole post and I can’t help thinking “who the heck is gonna do that?”. Who in Boston knows Indigo well enough already to present on it on behalf of Microsoft? Will they just be reading a script or something? Then I scroll down and get a big aha! moment — it’s David Chappell. Okay, I’m conviced! 🙂
http://www.AcehAid.org
Rod has his downloads from Code Camp on his website (www.dashpoint.com). The SQL Server 2005 DataTypes with VS2005 presentation he did at VTdotNET on Monday night are included in the MSDN Code Camp downloads.
http://www.AcehAid.org
I’m curious to see if anyone that I know who is coming to DevConnections is signed up for my pre-con workshop. It is a special workshop, not included with the regular conference. I am *so* looking forward to this session!!
http://www.AcehAid.org
I want to keep reminding folks attending DevConnections that my talk titled “C# for VB6 Programmers” will be just as useful for VB.NET programmers (who likely came from VB6 anyway).
I got more confirmation of this when doing it to a packed room at Code Camp III which chose to stay an extra 45 minutes during lunch just so we could experiment some more.
http://www.AcehAid.org
I just bought more memory for both of my laptops.
I removed 256 chips from each of them. I can’t think of anything to do but throw them in the garbage except that I see crucial sells the one I just took out of my Toshiba M200 for $43.00 and the ones I took out of my compaq are also $43 each. So that adds up to $129 and suddenly maybe I don’t know if I should just chuck ’em. Perhaps I’ll give them a try on ebay…
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