In my previous posts about binding in code behind with WPF, I talked about my helper class that allowed me to quickly create a dependency property within any class and use a number of static functions to quickly bind dependency properties in code behind. So when I took a look at the binding capabilities in Silverlight 2.0 I was disappointed to find out that much of the binding had been stripped out. In fact there was almost nothing from my user class that I could use in Silverlight 2.0 because of the exclusion of the class BindingOperations. So how does ...

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This helper will do the trick:

  public  static  class FileHelper
    {
         public  static  void MoveWithOverwrite(string sourceFileName,  string targetFileName)
        {
             if (File.Exists(targetFileName))
            {
                 if ((File.GetAttributes(targetFileName) & FileAttributes.ReadOnly) == FileAttributes.ReadOnly)
                    File.SetAttributes(targetFileName, FileAttributes.Normal);
                File.Delete(targetFileName);
            }
            File.Move(sourceFileName, targetFileName);
        }
    }

Today I was trying to figure out the Linq syntax to find the max DateTime out of a list of objects that had a ModifiedOn property. Here is what I came up with:

DateTime maxLastModified  = list.PickListItems.Items.Max(p => p.ModifiedOn);

Too easy, huh?

Actually, this is not so much Linq as just extension methods and lambda expressions, although one could argue that is what Linq is...I will leave that to the philosphers.

I have been working on some logic in a C# application that uses transactions, trying to prevent them from escalating to the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC). Apparently, if you have two DML operations (inserts, updates, deletes) within the same TransactionScope, then the MSDTC gets involved if they use different connections, even if the connection strings are identical.

The solution is to make sure all the SQL within the scope uses the same connection, which I was able to accomplish. However, I then ran into a different problem. I had selected a set of rows and was looping through them using ...

Yesterday I was debugging some SQL Server transaction logic, and came across the following handy command to see which transactions are running:

SELECT * 
FROM sys.dm_tran_session_transactions

Our dear colleague at Falafel Software Brad Divine, this week, achieved MCSD status (Microsoft Certified Solution Developer).  Congratulations Brad! 

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Our dear friend and Master Consultant Adam Anderson achieved MCSD status (Microsoft Certified Solution Developer).  Congratulations Adam! or Mr. SQL as we call him here at Falafel during the last 5+ years.  Adam has been an incredible asset for Falafel from the start and a go to guy for many technologies.  He is always there for everybody to lend a hand and help grow the company and achieve great things.  Adam passed his last exam yesterday on Software Architecture after passing the ASP.NET, Winforms, XML Web Services and SQL Server exams before then.

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