Chop Shop

My first app is for sale – RunAsPlus – on AllMyApps.com, a new windows app store that is trying to capture the idea that the iPhone and Android have been making waves with. The pic below is linked right to the product page. It surprises me that something similar has not been established before (if [...]

I’ve been doing some reading about differences between Visual Basic .NET and C# of late, and I’ve used both a bit now. I’m at a crossroads in my learning and am working to bridge the gap from forms- and console-based apps into the world of ASP .NET. Frankly, I’m torn between VB and C# when [...]

I was looking for a way to build a simple exception method for lots of try blocks in a .NET app today. Here’s what I came up with. I like it. I am enjoying reflection for sure! This is the method I placed into my module. It takes an exception and a string as parameters. [...]

Continued from part 1 For the brave (and those with programming experience), CodeProject (as usual) has a lengthy, thorough article with a complete example. See http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/Reflection.aspx if you wish. My example is much more focused. So…how to call a certain method at runtime by passing a string… Couple of “big deals” to keep in mind: [...]

I’ve been toiling away on a decent-size ADO .NET front-end application for several weeks now. I was having an issue that caused me to create several “link forms” for linking records to one another (i.e. create relationships in the data model – like a many-to-many mapping record that exists in a fact or relation table). [...]