Okay quick blog for today. Not my best, but I have been working with SQL's native HierarchyID type and didn't want to see the regular Hex of 0X5B6EAD6B, So by adding a simple .ToString() on my Select statement for my table I was able to change it to be "/1/2/13/"   SELECT TOP 1000 [WidgetInst... [More]

The base class includes the field ‘MyUserControl_1, but its type (MyUserControl) is not compatible with the type of control (ASP.MyControl_ascx). [More]

Today I copied over another user control from another project into my current project and the code behind page was giving me an error on the label on the page. The error was :  “Cannot resolve symbol ‘ ’: After a little investigation I found this is being thrown by my ReShar... [More]

A computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations. A computer language is a transport for expressing ideas about methodology. A program must be written for humans to read and for machines to execute. Thus a Software Engineer is not somebody that just knows syntax o... [More]

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C# Development Standards Purpose The purpose of this document is to describe the C# coding standards used in the industry and my personal recommendations.   Microsoft Standards I primarily follow the Microsoft standards and best practices for C# development. The following information s... [More]

Camel Case The capitalization of a word is such that the first letter is lowercase and the first letter of each successive word is uppercase, e.g. "propertiesFilename". Pascal Case The capitalization of a word, similar to Camel Case except that even the first word is capitalized, e.g. "Properties... [More]

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In an effort to reduce my pages being served to users, i've swapped my blog engine to use BlogEngine.Net. I will leave my old blog site up with a different sub domain URL which you can find at: http://blog.jtstroup.net . I have to say so far I am enjoying 1.5 version of BlogEngine.Net. They hav... [More]