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Avoid Mixing INNER and OUTER Joins in SQL

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:16:03 GMT

I had previously written about the danger of Criteria on Outer Joins, but recently another situation popped up that occasionally causes issues with OUTER JOINS that I thought I might address. The issue is when you have multiple tables joined in a single SELECT, and you mix OUTER and INNER JOINS together. The end result doesn't always seem to "work", and it can be tricky to understand exactly why and how to fix it without incurring additional unintended side effects.

Tag mapping in ASP.NET

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:46:03 GMT

Basically, it's a way to turn all instances of a type into another type at compile time. In human language it means that it can turn all e.g. System.Web.UI.WebControls.Textbox instances in the entire website into another control.

Layered Architecture, Dependency Injection, and Dependency Inversion

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:01:02 GMT

Building loosely coupled application architectures requires more than just separating your application into different layers. In this article, I'll take a project that was built using techniques that result in fragile, hard-to-test code and introduce some principles, techniques, and refactorings that will help you realize flexibility and testability in your applications.

43 Exceptionally Useful AJAX Applications

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:46:03 GMT

Usability on websites is exploding right now. AJAX has enabled web developers everywhere to add functionality to their sites like never before. They've gathered 43 extremely useful AJAX applications for use on any website.

SQL Command Visualizer for Visual Studio 2005

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:31:02 GMT

A visualizer for SQL Command objects. Displays a more useful representation of a SQL Command object when debugging. Show details of the command, it's connection and lists all parameters, their properties and current values.

More than 100 Web 2.0 Online Generators

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 09:31:02 GMT

Here the list of online generators specifically for web 2.0 design: enjoy it!

Super easy SQL Server 2005 Database Schema change auditing

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 08:46:02 GMT

Here's a very simple way to make use of xml type in SQL Server 2005: audit all the object/schema changes to the database with a simple database-level trigger. It's like a poor man's source control for schema changes. But also, it could come in very handy for forensic purposes when diagnosing post-rollout issues or accidental schema changes. Anyway, it's simple and handy for what it does.

100% Reflective Class Diagram Creation Tool

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:46:01 GMT

This article is about using reflection. For those of you that don't know what reflection is, it is the ability to obtain information about a Type of object without really knowing anything about the object type that is being dealt with. For example one could simply ask the current Type of object if it supports a certain method name, if it does, the method can be called. This may sound strange but it is a very powerful technique. Lets suppose that I simply want to look at what methods a class supports, well that is also easily achieved using reflection. .NET allows developers to leverage reflection in many ways.

Always implement the ToString() method

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:01:01 GMT

Implementing the ToString() method make debugging a whole lot easier

.NET Format String Quick Reference/Cheat Sheet

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 19:31:01 GMT

All standard and custom DateTime and number format strings (for use with String.Format(), .ToString(), etc) in one handy document.

Remote Desktop On A Non-Standard Port

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 14:01:01 GMT

How to setup and use Remote Desktop on a non-standard port.

Top 30 Software Engineering Practices

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 08:01:01 GMT

Here is a top 30 list of software engineering practices as a guideline for better software

SQL 2005: Changing Schema for a group of objects

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:31:01 GMT

This script moves all of your stored procedures from one Schema to another. It wouldn't be hard to change it to move other object types.

Scott Hanselman's 2006 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 03:31:01 GMT

Scott Hanselman, that uber technologist, updates his must have list of power tools for developers.

Cool (and Free) Threading .NET 2.0 E-Book

Wed, 23 Aug 2006 05:01:02 GMT

"This is a very cool threading online reference and freely downloadable e-book (PDF). Using C# for its examples, in 76 pages it covers basic synchronization, locking, BackgroundWorker, async delegates and more." Via: http://coolthingoftheday.blogspot.com