Greg Robinson's Blog
I report it, you decide
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No more DLL Hell, replaced with Visual Studio Hell
I am grateful for no longer having to deal with COM and Dll hell. Now, instead I battle daily with the VS IDE 1.1. How many times a day do I see this:
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Catch exception When
Using a When statement on an Exception Catch has been an invaluable tool for us. We have a Try Catch Block where we only want to catch a certain exception when some condition is true, so we added a When statement like this:
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In reply to my 'is this a .net weblog' post
I received quite a few personal "I agree" replies, thanks. I want to address those that chose to flame away.
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Is this a .NET weblog?
I have not posted in quite some time. The main reason is I have become somewhat disenchanted with this blog (and I am swamped at work).
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'HACK:
I love 'TODO: for commenting
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So, do you Wiki
They are calling this Social Software
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Learning ADO.NET
I have seen a few questions popping up on LISTSERVs about ADO.NET. Mainly concluding that ADO.NET is more difficult when compared to ADO 2.6 and RecordSets.
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'Our' Wrox Book
It is nice to see I am now part of the 'Wrox Author Team' vs. being an individual....
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Windows Forms Grids
If you are building a Windows Forms App that needs to use grids, run, do not walk to Janus Systems and purchase the GridEX NOW! I do not work for them. I do not even know them. This Grid is MONEY and worth every dollar you spend one it. The support is incredible and the functionality built into this Grid blows me away every day.
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VS 2003 IDE changes a referenced DLL when more than one version is available
We have seen cases where the IDE, on a Build, will somehow change the version of a reference dll. An example is this: