Bob On Development — Musings on the craft and business of software development

An SqlParameter Handling Bug in ADO.NET 2.0

September 22, 2007

Wherein we meet the SqlParameterCollection that would not die.

Exposing a .NET 2.0 Class Via COM: A Case Study

September 11, 2007

I needed to access a .NET 2.0 class method from a COM application — something I don’t have an every day need for. Like a lot of things, it seems simple enough on the surface, but the devil is in the details. This rather lengthy post illustrates a typical forensic investigation for this kind of […]

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Waste Not Thy Variables, Neither Needlessly Multiply Them

September 9, 2007

Use variables purposefully, not spastically.

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Useful, Under-Used SQL Server Functions

September 7, 2007

A baker’s dozen of often-overlooked, yet useful, SQL Server functions.

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E4X: We Could Use This In the C# World

August 17, 2007

The best way I’ve seen yet to access XML from within code.

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The Old Programmer’s Home

August 17, 2007

Should software developers be put out to pasture at 40?

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In Memory of a Great Developer

August 1, 2007

Today, my beloved wife Linda passed away after a long struggle with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME). This is of course a software development blog, so I thought it would be appropriate to quote a post I made a couple of weeks ago to a local newsgroup in response to the following question: Would anyone have suggestions […]

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