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	Get DataBase Connection Strings in Easy Way [Tip/Trick] 16 Feb 2011 Updated: 16 Feb 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.40 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,470 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Or you could just pop over to:http://www.connectionstrings.com/[^]Use the exhaustive samples they provide and not hard code your connection strings by using a standard .NET configuration file:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1xtk877y.aspx[^]
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	How to find a specific string from stored procedures, triggers and functions in database [Tip/Trick] 27 Jan 2012 Updated: 27 Jan 2012 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,260 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Please see my alternative tip #2:Do the same thing with SMO[^]There's a Microsoft API for all this, it's been around for a while.
SQL Server	Some Important SQL Queries [Tip/Trick] 2 Nov 2011 Updated: 6 Nov 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,690 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. As a C# developer, I much prefer to perform this kind of task with SMO. The API is really nicely structured and gives quick, strongly-typed access to the nuts and bolts of SQL Server.Using SQL 2008 and Visual Studio 2010, you need to add the following references from C:\Program...
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	Turn off system speaker sounds in guest VMs [Tip/Trick] 1 Nov 2010 Updated: 13 Nov 2010 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,620 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
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C#	Enum Display Extension [Tip/Trick] 26 Oct 2011 Updated: 30 Oct 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 5.21 Licence: CPOL Views: 22,521 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In response to Adrian Cole's comment to the OP - due to living and working in a country where there are four official languages, plus English as a de facto fifth, I've encountered this before.Provided you have the corresponding .resx files embedded in the same assembly as the enum and your...
	Unknown size Numeric Arrays from Strings - dontumindit [Tip/Trick] 14 Feb 2011 Updated: 14 Feb 2011 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 4,440 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I prefer something a little more generic:public static IEnumerable Convert(string value, char separator) where TTypeConverter : TypeConverter { var typeConverter = (TTypeConverter)TypeDescriptor.GetConverter(typeof(TValue)); ...
	How to log your LINQ query [Tip/Trick] 20 Oct 2011 Updated: 20 Oct 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,240 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I prefer to use ToTraceString() on the ObjectQuery:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.objects.objectquery.totracestring.aspx[^]It's less intrusive as I don't have to instantiate and dispose the StreamWriter and I have more control over where and how I log the resultant...
	Programatically update connectionstring using C# [Tip/Trick] 8 Nov 2011 Updated: 8 Nov 2011 Rating: 4.17/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.24 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,291 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. You can do the same using the configuration-specific parts of the .NET Framework to save some of the hard work:// Get the configuration file.System.Configuration.Configuration config = ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration(ConfigurationUserLevel.None);//Initialize the Connection...
	Create a simple SMTP server in C# [Tip/Trick] 21 Nov 2011 Updated: 21 Nov 2011 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,841 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Please note I don't want to take anything away from roosrj's tip which displays infinitely more in depth knowledge about the SMTP protocol than I can - as a lazy man's alternative I've always used PostCast v2.6 to test anything mail related:...
	Using human readable enum values in a ComboBox [Tip/Trick] 3 Feb 2012 Updated: 3 Feb 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,220 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. While it's a good idea to provide more readable enum values, I'm not keen on this solution because it uses hard-coded values and isn't localizable.Please see my alternative tip on using extension methods and resource files to bind localized strings to enum values:Enum Display Extension[^]
	How to Debug or Test your Windows Service Without Installing it... [Tip/Trick] 25 Oct 2011 Updated: 25 Oct 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,850 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Along similar lines to KeithAMS, when writing a Windows service, I only use the Windows Service Project as a container to run code that is in one or more referenced assemblies. As far as I'm concerned, if I've got any logic that goes beyond starting and stopping the service in my service...
XML	Problems with XML Serialization and .NET 4.5 [Tip/Trick] 19 Jun 2013 Updated: 19 Jun 2013 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 33,002 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Installing .NET 4.5 breaks serialization to XML

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jim lahey

Software Developer (Senior)

United Kingdom

First batch file in 1987

Messed around with the Bullfrog C++ Libraries for Syndicate in 1994

Web Developer since 2000

.net Developer since 2001

MCTS: Microsoft® .NET Framework 2.0 - Web-based Client Development

MCTS: Web Applications Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4

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