Downloading Oracle Driver for .NET…
feels like I am trying to download a semi-legal DVD-copying software. It starts simple enough: just go to this page. Shows a list of things to download, it does not […]
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Scripting on Windows
I needed to create a script of medium complexity that goes along these lines: 1. Take a list of databases. 2. Each database has an SVN folder, list of files […]
BI Studio: cannot customize auto generated MDX query
Long story short: if you are building an SSRS report in Microsoft BI studio, and if that report has parameters, you cannot customize the automatically generated MDX query. If you […]
Silverlight Image control does not support GIFs
Surprise-surprise! WPF: The Image class enables you to load the following image types: .bmp, .gif, .ico, .jpg, .png, .wdp, and .tiff. Silverlight: [Image class] Represents a control that displays an […]
Touches
I wrote a little web page that “debugs” HTML 5 touch interface (requires touch screen device). Unlike regular mouse clicks, there is no “onTouch” attribute, you have to add and […]
ADO.NET: what did you just say?
I need to do some processing when rows are deleted from my DataTable. One would think it should be easy: after all, you have RowDeleting and RowDeleted events, that should […]
MEF: Though Shalt Not LoadFrom
I was preparing for a presentation on MEF, and I stumbled upon this sentence: catalog.Catalogs.Add(new DirectoryCatalog(“C:\\SimpleCalculator\\SimpleCalculator\\Extensions”)); “This absolute path is for debugging purposes only. In a production application, you would […]
NAnt null property issue
OK, I filed it. Let’s see what happens now.
.NET: String Constants vs Static Readonly Fields
Numerous books and articles explain the difference between public const string Foo = “foo”; and public static readonly string Foo = “foo”; The former is treated as true constant that […]
NAnt: Does null really exist?
Stumbled upon an interesting situation in NAnt, which may inspire some philosophical thought on what “to exist” really means. We run a NAnt build script from our program and set […]