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Doing less with LINQ

Submitted by Bevan on Wed, 30 Jun 2010 - 1:06pm

While reading a recent article in MSDN magazine, I came across some code that gives me a great opportunity to show how to get more done with less effort by using LINQ.

Avoiding Stack Overflow with Params

Submitted by Bevan on Thu, 24 Jun 2010 - 8:30am

Here's a pattern that I've seen occur a number of times - a pair of method overloads, one accepting IEnumerable<T> and the other accepting params T[].

WCF and IList<T>

Submitted by Bevan on Fri, 28 May 2010 - 8:25am

Here's an interesting problem I encountered recently with a WCF based web service and the humble IList<T> interface.

I'm working on a classic 3-teir system: Client/Application/Database. The Client and Application are using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to interact. For convenience, we have an assembly of Data Transfer Objects (or DTOs) which is shared across both the client and the server.

While working on a recent system enhancement, I encountered an odd error - a NotSupportedException with the message "Collection was of a fixed size".

Using TypeConverters with WPF

Submitted by Bevan on Mon, 12 Apr 2010 - 7:00am

I'm working on a little project at the moment which is dynamically building a WPF user interface based on a configuration file loaded when the application starts. This involves code to manually create all of the bits and pieces that are normally specified directly in a Xaml file.

One useful shortcut I've found is to leverage .NETs built in TypeConverter framework - the same technique used by the Xaml loader itself.

Using Windows SignOn with PowerBuilder and SQL Server

Submitted by Bevan on Tue, 9 Mar 2010 - 8:48am

Following The Good Samaritan Principle, here's a tip for people using PowerBuilder against a SQL Server back end with single-sign-on.

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