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My 2 most recent GotDotNet samples, Extending Enums and Encrypted ConnectionStrings, have finally been updated.  Thanks to some help and feedback from Steve Maine I got down to adding caching support to both of these samples.  When it was all said and done, the caching was easy to implement.  For some reason I had it stuck in my head that I was going to use System.Web’s caching, and I didn’t want to do that because I didn’t want to rely on running within ASP.Net (although I think you can use it outside of ASP.Net, but I haven’t check into it).  Since the only classes that will need to access the cached info are the classes that create the objects, I really only needed to create a private, static hashtable within the ConnectionString class and the DalParameter class, and cache either the ConnectionStringDictionary object or the AttributeSettings object.  It works like a charm and only needed minor code adjustments.  I don’t know why I didn’t think of it when I first wrote it.  I think it was partially because I was over complicating the caching.  Most of the times, simpler is better.

From the feedback it looks like the proposed PDC Bloggers Party is a go, but it will take some coordination effort on my part.  To help make myself a little more accessible I’ll pull a Don Smith and release my IM id to the general public.  I only use MSN IM, and the id is don_xml plus the obligatory @hotmail.com at the end (hopefully that little redirection confused the spam bots out there).

Geez, has it been a week since I posted something?  I guess I’ve been busy.

If you happen to be in the NJ Area on October 2nd, you may want to stop by the NJMSDEV meeting and check out my presentation “Fun with Attribute Based Programming – Extending Enums”.  It is based on my article and GotDotNet sample of the same name, and would be a great time to ask any questions that you may have on this topic.

Rory doesn’t shy away from asking the hard questions, and this time it is a real brain twister – “Why do you code?”

For those of you that care, I’ll be at staying at the Whilshire Grand for the PDC, and the place will be rockin’. 

The 3rd annual XML for Financial Services conference is scheduled for Jan. 26-28, 2004, at the Flathotel in New York City.  It will concentrate on maximizing interoperability, efficiency and cost savings thru integrated XML-based web services.  All the presentations have not been announced yet, but I will be giving the following Post-Conference Workshop:

Follow up to my previous post.