Last week I was tasked with developing a new App for the guys I work with, (not a developers app you understand, but for actual normal users!!! Luckily it puts me smack bang where I work best – developing functional, extendable (and most importantly) Windows based apps. I’m now officially in my comfort zone! The…
I’ve got the following situation: DateTime? myDt = (DateTime) row[“Column”]; This fails when retrieving a DBNull value, so we check for that: DateTime? myDT = (row[“Column”] == DBNull.Value) ? null : (DateTime) row[“Column”]; This won’t compile, however doing: DateTime? myDT; if(row[“Column”] == DBNull.Value) myDT = null; else myDT = row[“Column”]; works fine, now, I realise…
You wouldn’t have thought it would be that hard to print word documents from within C# – hook up the project to the Word Interop dlls – open the document and print. Easy. In fairness – a lot of it is like this – and setting up a printer is pretty easy; PrintDocument pd =…
I’m happy today as I’ve written my first bit of Production LINQ code in the form of LINQ-to-XML. It’s not the most complicated bit of code – only a grabbing of data from a file, but it does do what it says on the tin – uses C# 3.0 and (unfortunately) causes Resharper to complain…