Dan McKinley : October 2004

I'm Turning into a Pile of Sand

posted Saturday, October 30, 2004 11:41 AM by mcfunley with 0 Comments

The humidity in my office dipped below 20% this week, the same as last winter. If you need a frame of reference, the Sahara desert is usually at least 25%. Some people are able to tolerate this, but I'm apparently not one of them. Especially not when Read More

The "Other" DataSet Serialization Problem

posted Saturday, October 30, 2004 11:34 AM by mcfunley with 0 Comments

There are many articles out there covering the well-known DataSet serialization performance issues. Dino Esposito had a pretty good article in MSDN magazine outlining this, and the ADO 2.0 solution to it. There is another DataSet serialization Read More

Attributes, WithEvents, and Backing Fields

posted Tuesday, October 26, 2004 8:12 PM by mcfunley with 1 Comments

Grahn Modulary in Kokomo, Indiana writes: Why is only 'booya' printed out when Derived.Reflect() is called in this test program (below)? Shouldn't I also get 'raiser?' What gives, Tito? [Note, I omitted the ReflectMeAttribute and EventRaiser Read More

What the hell is a "Yinzer"

posted Monday, October 25, 2004 9:29 PM by mcfunley with 6 Comments

If you ever found yourself wondering, now you know. Read More

Visual Basic Conversion Keywords are Thunderdome

posted Monday, October 25, 2004 9:12 PM by mcfunley with 0 Comments

Quiz for the day. This one highlights one of the many things I don’t like about VB. What’s the output of this program? Class TestProgram Private Shared Sub Main() Read More

A hoy-hoy

posted Monday, October 25, 2004 8:21 PM by mcfunley with 1 Comments

Welcome to my futile attempt to educate the literate public on several issues near and dear to my heart. Here I hope to cover these and other topics: The Pittsburgh Steelers are obviously going to win the Super Bowl this year. Visual Basic Read More

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