A Book Review of Manning’s Windows PowerShell In Action by Bruce Payette
Monday 7 April 2008 @ 11:24 am

A book review of Windows PowerShell in action by Bruce Payette

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Best Practices for Configuring ASP.NET ConnectionStrings and AppSettings in Web.Config
Saturday 23 February 2008 @ 2:25 pm

This article shows a good way to manage connection string and appsettings values in your web.config file. It shows how to use include files and talks about how to set defaults so moving to production from testing or development can be less painful

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How to Get the DataItem out of a ListView in Asp.Net 3.5 (compared to Repeater)
Monday 18 February 2008 @ 6:51 am

See how to get the DataItem out of a ListView Control which is part of asp.net 3.5. Compare ListView to repeater in this regard.

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How to know if LINQ is working efficiently with SQL?
Saturday 16 February 2008 @ 8:29 am

In this post, we look at how to log from LINQ to SQL to see the actual sql generated by the LINQ engine.

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My first LINQ Experience. How to do a simple COUNT() with LINQ to SQL
Monday 24 December 2007 @ 11:12 am

This post has some sample code using LINQ to do a simple SQL count function. It compares the code to a non-LINQ version. It’s my first actual LINQ code do don’t expect much besides excitement

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Pro ASP.NET 3.5 and C# 2008 Released! Another Master Piece
Tuesday 18 December 2007 @ 6:25 pm

A short book review of Pro ASP.NET 3.5 and C# 2008 by Mathew MacDonald, one of my favorite authors.

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Book Review: Pro LINQ Language Integrated Query in C# 2008 by Joseph C. Rattz, Jr.
Monday 17 December 2007 @ 7:54 am

A book review on one of the first LINQ books published. IMHO, an excellent book to add to your library

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Why can I not Bind to a value on a DropDownList in a GridView with ASP.NET 2.0 or 3.5?
Thursday 13 December 2007 @ 5:26 pm

Learn how to bind a DropDownList in an asp.net 2.0/3.5 GridView Edit Row. This will show you how to get the data back to the database and learn why Bind does not help you (hint: SelectedValue is not our friend here).

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