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September 2007 - Posts

Atlanta MS Pros/Cutting Edge/VB Study group

posted Friday, September 28, 2007 1:22 PM by jwooley
Please join us on Monday, October 1 at 6:30 PM for the monthly Atlanta Cutting Edge .NET / MsPros / VB Study Group meeting. Note, for this meeting we will be meeting at Turner in midtown (1015 Techwood Drive) rather than the usual Microsoft offices. Read More
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Nerd score

posted Wednesday, September 12, 2007 1:28 PM by jwooley
My wife says I'm a nerd, but didn't think it was too bad. Seeing Shawn post his nerd score, I figured I would check it out and see. Little did I realize that I would score HIGHER than him in terms of technology. He got a much higher nerd score though. Read More
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IIF(You.Uses=IIF,Stop,Consider.If(cond,true,false))

posted Friday, September 07, 2007 1:55 AM by jwooley
For a long time, VB has had an operator called IIF which allows you to evaluate a condition and return a true value or false value as a single line evaulation. I'm sure some of you out there have used the IIF function at some point in the past. If you're Read More
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Playing with fire: simulating extension members via Extension Methods

posted Friday, September 07, 2007 1:05 AM by jwooley
As I was listening to Scott Hanselman's Hanselminutes episode on LINQ to XML, he made a statement insinuating that you could add stateful behavior to objects via extension methods. As I was adding a comment stating that it was not possible, I started Read More
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LINQ to SQL Compiled Queries

posted Wednesday, September 05, 2007 1:20 AM by jwooley
As LINQ nears release, people are starting to consider the performance implications that the extra overhead brings. Currently there are two threads on this: thread1, thread2. For those that are intested in the performance implications, I highly recommend Read More
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