When you need to add complex configuration structures to .NET config files, you will generally create your own custom configuration section classes, and implement them within your application. However, if you just need a standard key/value pair, you don’t need a custom configuration type at all. Instead, you can just... [Read More]

One of the tools we use at my current job to validate code as part of our automated build is FxCop. It can be a pain, but we’ve found it very useful in terms of standardising our code and rooting out all those un-used variables that seem to grow to... [Read More]

In setting up this blog, I was weighing up my options as to how to highlight code. You can do it manually by setting the colour of individual words, but that is just a pain in the ass, particularly for larger posts so I considered writing a JavaScript class for... [Read More]

Rather than do a String.Format, ActiveRecord has a Query.SetParameterList(“Param”, IList) method that can be used for IN statements. Doing it this way allows for query caching, as well as simpler code. In the following example, lstKeys is a List object. [Read More]

Now that tables are no longer acceptable for use when creating displays, there remains a problem when trying to get a row of elements to always display as a row without wrapping. In IE7 and Firefox, you can get it to behave fairly easily, but in IE6 it’s actually impossible... [Read More]