Archive for February, 2009

Changelogs are nice

By admin - Last updated: Friday, February 20, 2009

I’m talking to you, Windows Live 8046.206. If you’re going to make me go through a 5 minute installation, you could at least tell me what’s changed so I can look forward to it, especially when your latest update has no visible changes.
You see, I’m thrilled at the knowledge that some piece of the software [...]

Initializing DataRows

By admin - Last updated: Monday, February 9, 2009

How many ways are there to initialize a new DataRow with new values?

Set the DefaultValue property on the respective DataColumns.
This works fine for static values. However, you’re likely using the DataSet designer in Visual Studio, and it will hose itself if you try to set a GUID because it can’t tell them apart from a [...]