I got tripped up today with a particularly nasty Join statement that worked perfectly form 90% of the queries, but was blowing up at times. The error message was:
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With Microsoft’s recent announcement that they will begin shipping jQuery with Visual Studio, the little Javascript framework is about to hit the big time (it was already sort of big time, but this is BIG TIME). And rightfully so.
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For you veterans of VB6, the control array probably became an old friend, or at least an annoying neighbor if you didn’t like them. You couldn’t help run across the concept in VB6 because every time you copy and pasted a control for the first time, you got asked if you wanted to create a control array.
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HTML colors come in all sorts of flavors: hexadecimal (#0066ff), named colors (e.g. LightSkyBlue…here’s the link).
Many people may be very comfortable with working with HTML colors, so if you’re in C# and needing to get the .Net equivalent, you can translate directly from HTML colors with System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.FromHtml(). Here’s the usage: (more…)
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