Generics are great

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admin
Posted March 15th, 2006 at 4:21 pm
Today I explored generics properly and I must admit that I'm very sorry i did not take the time earlier
Bottom line : GENERICS ARE GREAT...
Multi-Threading in asp.net

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admin
Posted March 1st, 2006 at 9:30 pm
I got a question asked just recently about multi threading and async execution of a page.
About async execution I am a little bit biased because for asp.net I don't really see a huge benefit most of the time and I really believe it should be used very wisely.
Spawning threads on the other hand is more convient for lengthy operations that are not essential to the execution of the page. I will just copy paste the mail I've sent to the other guy. It came with a question on what about cleaning of...
FTP Server with sql acces

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admin
Posted March 1st, 2006 at 4:36 pm
I have the need to run an ftp server for one of my applications. It is to complement a web application where there is a pretty big datatransfer. Users need to be able to register and upon activation they need to be able to upload movies (20-70MB) to a folder online. These movies need to be made available online and proposed for review to somebody in the company.So far so good. Were it not that we are running IIS Ftp server for the moment who stores it's users in the AD of the server. That is n...
A poor man’s code generation

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admin
Posted March 1st, 2006 at 3:50 pm
There has been a lot of talk about code generation and ORM software around where I was.
I got curious and embarked on a free codegeneration exploration. Being new to the concept of codegeneration my requirements were the following :
It needs to be faster then the dataset generator of visual studio 2005
It needs to support relations
It needs to support stored procedures or at the very least use dynamic query language that uses parameters to set up queries to the database.
It needs to be with a v...