Houston, we have a TechFest!

Posted on July 26, 2007 by codeslammer

The Houston .NET Users Group (HDNUG) is organizing a day of technological banter at the University of Houston next month. The event has been coined the Houston TechFest and it is going to be held on August 25th (a Saturday).
This knowledge sharing experience is of particular interest to me because it will be my [...]

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Missing ConfigurationManager in WinForms

Posted on July 19, 2007 by codeslammer

For anyone who switches back and forth between developing ASP.NET WebForms and WinForms, this tip may come in handy.
If you are developing in a C# WinForms project, you will find that attempting to use a ConfigurationManager to get at your app.config settings will result in the following error:
The name ‘ConfigurationManager’ does not exist in the [...]

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Do Not Use the StringBuilder

Posted on July 7, 2007 by codeslammer

I know there are plenty of people out there that will disagree with me, but I urge you to not use the .NET StringBuilder class in 99% of the cases you would be tempted or recommended to do so.  Here is why:
 The StringBuilder class does perform better than basic string concatenation.  However, it is really [...]

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