Web Development / Programming

Don’t Forget Comments When Programming

Posted by on October 5, 2011 at 7:56 pm

I just have to say something about this.  Don't forget to add comments to your programs!  I know it can be a little time consuming to add comments to your programs but it will save you tons of time down the road.  Just think of how much time you would have saved if you ad [...]

MS SQL 2000 to MS SQL 2008 R2 Import Issues

Posted by on August 22, 2011 at 9:10 am

These are just a quick list of things that I have noticed during imports from Microsoft SQL 2000 to Microsoft SQL 2008 R2 that, if you are doing this, you should watch for.  This is probably not the complete list of issues, but one's that I have noticed so far: Stored Procedures do not get [...]

Parsing A Few Characters in A String – VB.Net

Posted by on June 21, 2011 at 3:37 pm

If you need to parse just a few characters from a string, you can easily do that in the code-behind like this: MyVariable = VariableName.Substring(1,3) This gets the first through the third character in the string and places it in MyVariable. Note that the starting position of the variable is 0 so the true first [...]