Paul On Technology

I have had a chance to work a little more on converting objects to data tables. Oddur has asked about nested types and I have implemented them - to an extent. The issue is how far do I really need to take this? Our needs are simple, but I did run into having to handle enums. I decided that an enum would always produce a String column and that I would use the enum name as the value.

Recently there have been some articles about not using DataSets or DataTables in web applications. Scott Mitchell has Why I Don't Use DataSets in My ASP.NET Applications and More On Why I Don't Use DataSets in My ASP.NET Applications. Karl Sequin has On the Way to Mastering ASP.NET: Introducing Custom Entity Classes.

I was wondering if someone could clarify this for me. If I have the following code (simplified for brevity) :

Has anyone tried to do a prepared statement with parameters with the new block? Unless I missed something I don't see any example.

I finally decided to start playing with the beta of VS 2005. First stop: Get some existing code working. So I take an API that I wrote, complete with unit tests and decide to give it a whirl. First NUnit coughs up a bad image format exception. This was quicky remedied by a Google search and a tript to James Newkirk's blog and I thought I was home free. NUNit GUI comes up, I pick my dll and all the tests appear in NUnit's treeview. As soon as I try to run a test I get this:

Last night I bought Norton Systemworks 2005. I had 2003 on my laptop and figured it was time to upgrade since they weren't supporting it anymore. When I tried to run their live update I always got an error updating the common client and their site said something about it not being supported.

I was creating a class with a namespace like this : MyCompany.System.MyLibrary. When I tried to use code from namespaces like System.Data in the same class the compiler could not find System.Data.