Archive for October, 2008
Don’t be like Everyone Else - Check your Code
0 Comments Published October 24th, 2008 in ProgrammingThere is an -imho- Â disturbing tendency amongst developers when it comes to applying coding and style standards, unit testing, duplication analysis and the like. The typical mindset seems to be “if my colleagues don’t do it, I won’t, either”. I know, I’ve been there as well. In fact, I am still there. But if you [...]
For an internal project we were creating a number of custom List Definitions by editing the schema.xml files. When we opened an instance of the List Definition in SharePoint, the fields we had added did not show up in the View, New and Edit forms. Only the Title field was visible.
As it turned out, the [...]
Converting an Object to/from Anything - Implicit Type Conversion
0 Comments Published October 7th, 2008 in ProgrammingSometimes you discover a little gem that you just know you will be using over and over again. My latest discovery is implicit type conversion. Implicit type conversion basically allows you to convert any object to any other type. Note that not all conversions make sense.
As an example, let’s assume the following Field and FieldList [...]
TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 - Web-Based Client Development
1 Comment Published October 3rd, 2008 in ProgrammingToday I passed the 70-528 TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 – Web-Based Client Development exam. One more step towards my MCPD: Enterprise Application Developer certification
