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Make a positive number a negative number in 1 line of C# code - A Quiz

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:02:46 GMT

Any other cool ways of making a positive number a negative?

Experimental LINQ to SQL template

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:15:17 GMT

Damien shows a very nice way of customizing code generation of Linq to SQL

ADO.NET Entity Framework Quickstart Tutorial

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:20:19 GMT

The ADO.NET Entity framework received another update last week as part of the Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta, so to coincide with this here is a quick run through to get you started with some basic CRUD features of the framwork.

C# 3.5 Conversion Extension Method Library 1.0

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:31:02 GMT

This free downloadable library makes use of the new Extension Method language feature in C# 3.5 to add some cool conversion functions to the basic datatypes. So now, you can do more than just .ToString()...you can do .ToDecimal or .ToInt32 etc. etc. Also includes .Left() and .Right() string manipulations that VB has but C# doesn't !!!!

Mix 07 UK - All the free swag I mooched

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:13:56 GMT

Free swag is one of the unexpected bonuses when attending any conference. Look at this bountiful collection, ranging from crappy to cool collected at the Mix 07 Uk conference this week!

Efficient data paging with SQL Server 2005 using ROW_NUMBER()

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:01:02 GMT

Paging large amounts of data in SQL Server 2000 used to be a real pain, creating temporary tables, suffering bad performance after the first few batches of data or using ROWCOUNT to ignore large numbers of rows. Luckily SQL Server 2005 delivers a couple of new functions to make efficient painless data paging a reality.