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March 2006 - Posts

• Standards: Cases

  Pascal Case The first letter in the identifier and the first letter of each subsequent concatenated word are capitalized. You can use Pascal case for identifiers of three or more characters. ex. ForeColor Camel Case The first letter of an identifier is Read More... Posted Thursday, March 30, 2006 11:35 PM by rennera | 0 Comments Filed under: ASP.Net 2.0, VB.NET 2005, Programming Standards

• Standards: Class Naming

  The following rules outline the guidelines for naming classes: Use a noun or noun phrase to name a class. Use Pascal case . Use abbreviations sparingly. Do not use a type prefix, such as C for class, on a class name. For example, use the class name FileStream Read More... Posted Thursday, March 30, 2006 11:34 PM by rennera | 0 Comments Filed under: ASP.Net 2.0, VB.NET 2005, Programming Standards

• Standards: Namespace Naming

  The general rule for naming namespaces is to use the company name followed by the technology name and optionally the feature and design as follows. CompanyName.TechnologyName[.Feature][.Design] For example: Microsoft.Media Microsoft.Media.Design Prefixing Read More... Posted Thursday, March 30, 2006 11:31 PM by rennera | 0 Comments Filed under: ASP.Net 2.0, VB.NET 2005, Programming Standards

• Code Snippet: Exception Class

  Here is my first code snippet. Although there is one similar in the snippets library this one has all the intellisense built in. Download the snippet at the end of this post. To Install Snippet: Click tools Code Snippet Manager (If you cannot see this Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 29, 2006 12:59 AM by rennera | 0 Comments Filed under: ASP.Net 2.0, VB.NET 2005, Code Snippets Attachment(s): DefineAnExceptionClass.snippet

• Code Snippet Manager

  If you cannot see the code snippet manager on the tools menu... Tools Customize Commands Tab Rearrange Commands Button Menu Bar: Tools Add Button Tools in listbox on left Code Snippets Manager in listbox on right Ok Button Close Button Close Button Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 29, 2006 12:30 AM by rennera | 4 Comments Filed under: ASP.Net 2.0, VB.NET 2005, Code Snippets

• Shortcuts: Insert Code Snippets

  To insert a snippet when you know its shortcut Type the shortcut for the snippet in the Code Editor followed by the TAB key. The snippet will be inserted. -or- Type the first few characters of the shortcut name for the snippet in the Code Editor , followed Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 29, 2006 12:16 AM by rennera | 0 Comments Filed under: ASP.Net 2.0, VB.NET 2005, Code Snippets

• Code Snippet Editor

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/downloads/tools/snippeteditor/ Increase Your Productivity The hundreds of code snippets that ship with Visual Basic 2005 certainly help your productivity. But what about developing your own library of custom snippets? Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 28, 2006 11:57 PM by rennera | 0 Comments Filed under: ASP.Net 2.0, VB.NET 2005, Code Snippets

• Error Handling: Throwing Errors & Throw vs Throw ex vs Throw New Exception("",ex)

  Throw You should use this in your exception handling if you want to maintain your stack trace. For example: [code language="VB.NET"] Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load Try tester() Catch ex As Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 28, 2006 10:32 PM by rennera | 1 Comments

• Error Handling: Structured and Unstructured

  If an exception occurs in a method that is not equipped to handle the exception, the exception is propagated back to the calling method. If the previous method also has no exception handler, the exception is propagated back to that method's caller, and Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 28, 2006 9:14 PM by rennera | 0 Comments

• Versioning: Assemblies

  Versioning: Version numbers are 128 bit numbers partitioned into 4 - 32 bit sections. This means that each section of the version number can be a number from 0-65,535. 1. Assembly Versioning a. Major: 4 digit year i.e. 2005 b. Minor: 2 digit month i.e. Read More... Posted Friday, March 24, 2006 10:18 PM by rennera | 0 Comments Filed under: VB.NET 2005

• CSS Ramblings: Margin vs Padding

  [code language="ASPX"] Andrew was here [/code] Andrew was here [code language="ASPX"] Andrew was here [/code] Andrew was here [code language="ASPX"] Andrew was here [/code] Andrew was here Read More... Posted Friday, March 24, 2006 9:47 AM by rennera | 0 Comments

• Standards: Date and Time Format

  In software that I develop I have adopted a known standard for Date/Time to reduce the scope for error and the complexity of software. The standard is taken from ISO 8601. Year: YYYY (eg 1997) Year and month: YYYY-MM (eg 1997-07) Complete date: YYYY-MM-DD Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 22, 2006 12:36 AM by rennera | 0 Comments Filed under: ASP.Net 2.0, Windows Server 2003, SQL Server 2005

• Enumeration Value Name

  In order to get the name of an enumeration item: Dim pwdFormat As String = System.Enum.GetName( GetType ( FormsAuthPasswordFormat), FormsAuthPasswordFormat.Clear) The above code would return the string "Clear". You should also note that the second parameter Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 21, 2006 7:22 AM by rennera | 0 Comments Filed under: ASP.Net 2.0, VB.NET 2005

• ASP.NET AppPath & ResolveClientUrl

  Whenever possible you should use the ResolveClientUrl method to get at resources in your application directories but if you need to get the application path on the server you can use this code snippet. I have included the sytax for the ResolveClientUrl Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 14, 2006 2:59 PM by rennera | 0 Comments Filed under: ASP.Net 2.0

• ASP.NET Membership Mixed Mode Authentication

  Here is an example of how I have implemented mixed mode authentication in an asp.net 2.0 web application. The system will use forms authentication to authenticate against either Active Directory or your SQL membership database. In your web.config file Read More... Posted Sunday, March 12, 2006 3:18 PM by rennera | 1 Comments Filed under: ASP.Net 2.0

• CHM Help Files: Page cannot be displayed

  After some fiddling around with a couple downloaded CHM files I finally figured out why I was getting this silly error. The page cannot be displayed Cannot find server or DNS Error Internet Explorer It seems that in XP SP2 any downloaded chm files come Read More... Posted Sunday, March 12, 2006 11:58 AM by rennera | 0 Comments

• Windows Services: Timers

  This one was a little bit crazy... In an effort to write a simple service to extract all event logs into a single database once per hour.. I ran into an issue that is not very well documented. The timer would not fire!!! I saw one post where the person Read More... Posted Friday, March 03, 2006 5:23 PM by rennera | 6 Comments Filed under: Windows Server 2003, VB.NET 2005

• Encrypting and Decrypting Config Sections (VB Windows Forms)

  There was a post on this subject in C# for ASP.NET applications by David Heyden http://davidhayden.com/blog/dave/archive/2005/11/17/2572.aspx and later by Scott Mitchell http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/021506-1.aspx Here is the same example Read More... Posted Thursday, March 02, 2006 1:16 PM by rennera | 0 Comments Filed under: VB.NET 2005

• Splitting a Delimited String into a Generic List

  I came across this need today and really didn't find a totally clean solution... Here is the function that I created... feel free to post suggested improvements. ''' <summary> ''' Create a List(Of String) object from a delimited string. ''' </summary> Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 01, 2006 4:41 PM by rennera | 0 Comments Filed under: ASP.Net 2.0, VB.NET 2005