Greg Robinson's Blog

Since Scott asked us to keep the topics related to .net, I will simply say, for those who I have developed internet friendships with, one of our pets, unexpectly and suddenly passed away yesterday.  Details are on my personal blog.  I am in shock and I am grieving more than I ever thought I would. 

If you are building a Windows Form app, take advantage of Databinding.  Learn all you can about this.  If you can use ADO.NET types as your dataSources, even better.  Wow, what a nice job MS has done with this and what a time saver.

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Wow, I have died and gone to...well, VB.NET Heaven

Seems APress bought the title to the Wrox book I co-authored, but as they state 'things are very confused'. 

You learn something new everyday.  This link has been tossed around over the past couple of days.  Within 5 minutes of reading it, I discovered a potential performance issue in our apps.  That is overflow checking.  As the article clearly states, turn it off if an overflow is not considered an exception. 

A colleague of mine just showed me this.  At the start of each method we have a standard look and feel for commenting the purpose of the method, the author, date written, modifications etc.  Well, you can move these comments to outside the method signature and the comments will be collapsible! Pretty cool.  Just make sure the comments are before the method signature and after the last methods End (VB.NET of course)

I have been giving this some thought lately.  Usually as I go through 200+ blogs to read every morning captured by Mr. Newsgator.  Which ones catch my attention and why?  Think about this for a few minutes.  Why do you blog and why do you read blogs?