Rob Garrett - Blogs

August 2005 - Posts

• Nullable Types in C# 2.0

  I was reading about Nullable Types in the C# 2.0 specification for the .NET Framework 2.0 today. I am surprised I didn't find out about this feature long ago, goes to show that you learn something new every day. So what are Nullable Types? Simply put, Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 30, 2005 10:15 AM by Rob Garrett | 2 Comments

• Giganews Rocks

  It is often the case that I am frustrated, and have numerous complaints with service oriented organizations. Seldom do I get the chance to praise good service. Today is an exception... I have been a customer of Giganews for a couple of years now. Giganews Read More... Posted Friday, August 26, 2005 11:31 PM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments

• System repair in less than an hour

  I truly love Norton's Ghost 2003 ! My laptop was behaving strangely this evening - applications were spontaneously hanging, system was freezing when logging out, etc. A closer look at my Windows XP event log told me that STISVC.EXE (still imaging service) Read More... Posted Thursday, August 25, 2005 1:19 AM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments

• Event catch-up in ASP.NET 2.0 Controls

  Pop quiz, what is wrong with the following class? public class MyPlaceHolder : PlaceHolder { protected override void OnInit(EventArgs e) { Page.Trace.Write(this.ID, "In OnInit"); base.OnInit(e); } protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e) { Page.Trace.Write(this.ID, Read More... Posted Thursday, August 18, 2005 11:58 PM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments

• Firing multicast delegate events

  I am currently writing an ASP.NET server control, which exposes a number of custom events. I was looking through my code archives for a helper class, which will safely call handler methods of a multicast delegate, when an event is triggered. I found the Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 17, 2005 4:31 PM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments

• Server running again (for now)

  I spent another late night in the server room last night, working on my crippled server (see yesterday's post), but I think I have resolved the issue. The problem has to be hardware related because a reinstall of a previous working Ghost image was experiencing Read More... Posted Friday, August 12, 2005 11:31 AM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments

• Server Problems

  This is technically a rant, but it is also software related, so I have posted my woes here.... I ran into problems with one of my Windows 2003 servers yesterday. It all started when I had connected remotely (via RDP) from the office and installed the Read More... Posted Thursday, August 11, 2005 10:06 AM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments

• HTML to XHTML using SGMLReader

  Chris Lovett wrote a wonderful .NET library called SGMLReader , which, when passed a regular HTML file will spit out XHTML . The library relies on SGML parsing and uses a DTD (Document Type Definition) file to parse unformatted HTML. I've been playing Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 09, 2005 3:16 PM by Rob Garrett | 5 Comments

• IPostBackDataHandler and IPostBackEventHandler

  I've been messing around with post back handler in ASP.NET today, and I found out a few points of interest. Firstly, a description of the two interfaces used with server controls to handle post backs: IPostBackEventHandler - Implemented by server controls Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 02, 2005 1:26 PM by Rob Garrett | 7 Comments

• FOR XML and ADO.NET

  My esteemed colleague Sahil Malik has blogged about using FOR XML in SQL server. The following C# example demonstrates how to retrieve XML data from a SQL Server 2K5 database as XML: using (SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection("...")) { using (SqlCommand Read More... Posted Monday, August 01, 2005 10:23 AM by Rob Garrett | 1 Comments