Category Archives: .Net

WPF Hole Patterns

After I got my head above water in C# and WPF back in 2008, I created and published a sample of my first C# work that used the WPF platform for the UI. See my WPF Hole Patterns application on … Continue reading

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Using Linq to count rows in a DataTable based on a field value

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LINQ to SQL, Lazy Loading and Prefetching

I want to recommend this interesting article that explains times when LinqToSql’s native behavior of “Lazy Loading” is not a good thing (from a database performance standpoint), and explains a pre-fetching technique that you can can use when you want … Continue reading

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Uninstalling Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2

Why am I writing about Un-installing Visual Studio Beta 2 when it was just released yesterday, October 19, 2009? (video announcement can be seen at this link). Well, in the past whenever I’ve used the beta versions of some of … Continue reading

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Crash Course to Web Development for FoxPro and Web Connection Developers

I just received an e-mail announcement for what looks like an awesome jump start class for Visual FoxPro developers to get their feet wet in the .Net Web development arena. Super-smart web maven Rick Strahl plans to give you 3 … Continue reading

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