Date: September 16th, 2004

Guid Primary Keys are Revolutionised in SQL Server 2005

16 September, 2004 (15:43) | SQL Server | No comments

Jimmy Nilsson blogs about the new NEWSEQUENTIALID() function in SQL Server 2005 (Yukon) which provides an incremental GUID generator and hence the long overdue answer to uniqueidentifier as a primary key. While the importance of this may well be lost on non database oriented people, this function alone will revolutionise our choice of table primary […]

Dino Esposito Binary Serialization of ADO.NET Objects — MSDN Magazine, December 2002

16 September, 2004 (15:34) | .NET Code Related | 2 comments

One of the key elements that makes ADO.NET superior to ADO is the level of integration with XML. In ADO, XML is just an I/O format. In addition, the ADO XML format is totally inflexible and doesn’t allow any type of customization. Fortunately, since XML is much more deeply integrated into ADO.NET, you can use […]

Denis Bauer’s ASP.NET Custom Controls: DynamicControlsPlaceholder

16 September, 2004 (04:15) | .NET Code Related | 3 comments

Problem:
ASP.NET gives a developer the opportunity to programmatically add controls to a web form using ParentControl.Controls.Add(new Control());
However, these controls are not persisted in any way thus having to be recreated for each subsequent request.
Goal:
To create a control that behaves like a placeholder but additionally handles recreating dynamic controls on subsequent requests. read more