Tim Hoolihan

I was helping someone on StackOverFlow.com and ran into an interesting issue. The post is here. I explained the issue in my response, but I’ll try to sum up. Newer collection types implement IEnumerable(Of T) as opposed to the original IEnumerable interface. For example, System.Generic.List(Of T) implements IEnumerable(Of T), so the following is valid without [...]

When implementing a new SilverLight custom control, it was blocking menu popups (html / javascript) on the page. I set the z-index of the div and object tags that contained SilverLight to no avail. After a lot of googling, I found the following solution. Set the Windowless property to true. In the case of manually [...]

Answered a question on StackOverflow that I thought is worth posting about.  It’s surprising how many people try to work with JSON without knowing  javascript. Most JSON either returns objects {} or arrays [].  The first thing you learn about JSON is that you can just eval the object. In the case of arrays, you [...]

Recently reading some discussion of themes, and skins were listed as bad, because they cut out the designer and required duplication for any non-server control element. As in the following: I want all my text input’s to have a blue background.  So I said background=”blue” in an asp.net skin file, and create a blue style [...]

using System; using System.Text; namespace TestReadOnly { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { MyClass1 myObject1 = new MyClass1(); // myObject1.MyObject2 = new MyClass2(); // clearly illegal // legal, reference is read-only, not object myObject1.MyObject2.x = 1; Console.WriteLine(“myObject1.MyObject2.x: {0}”, myObject1.MyObject2.x); // also legal, similar to above, anotherObject2 is just a reference to the same [...]

1. Set a break point in a unit test 2. Open NUnit 3. In Visual Studio, go the tools Menu and choose Attach to Process (or Ctrl-Alt-P) 4. Choose nunit out of the list 5. Run tests. Make sure you run the test where your breakpoint is if you don’t run all tests.

Background: Linq to Sql is a lightweight data access protocol for the .Net framework.  It supports filtering and other lambda features in code, allowing the programmer to treat their data source as if it were a collection of objects that support flexible features.  In this way, it can be thought of as an ORM mapper, [...]

First, here’s a good way to see what you have available in code… <form id=”form1″ runat=”server”> <div> <% For Each key As String In Request.ServerVariables.AllKeys%> <p><%= key %>: <%=Request.ServerVariables(key)%></p> <% Next %> </div> </form> But in general all you need to do is read the following: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/12/19/tip-trick-how-to-run-a-root-site-with-the-local-web-server-using-vs-2005-sp1.aspx

When working in Asp.net, I discovered something interesting about namespace.  Before I explain what that is, a little background… If a page accesses it’s masterpage through the typical this.Master way, then any custom methods you’ve written aren’t accessible as it as typed as a MasterPage, not your class that inherits it (presumably something like _MyMasterPage).  [...]

You could waste a lot of time trying to figure out why an XMLWriter ignores the Encoding set on XMLWriterSettings that is passed into the XMLTextWriter.Create() function.  Instead, read the following blog post and move along… http://devproj20.blogspot.com/2008/02/writing-xml-with-utf-8-encoding-using.html