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ADO.NET, Nullable Types, Casting DBNull and You

I know this may be a little too scary for some of you so I apologize in advance. Take a deep breath and try to imagine that you can't use NHibernate and you're stuck using ADO.NET (circa 2001, did they even have computers back then?). If you've ever tried to read the value from a column in...

Posted to Alan Northam (Weblog) by anortham on 03-06-2008
Databinding performance tip in ASP.NET

In my last post I mentioned the use of C style casting when databinding in ASP.NET. That got me thinking about the performance differences between the two main ways to bind data in controls with custom templates (GridView, DataList, Repeater, etc). In my example I'm using a DataList and by default...

Posted to Alan Northam (Weblog) by anortham on 10-08-2007
Casting options in C#

What is the best way to cast from one type to another in C#? This question came up at work last week while I was looking through some older code. The code in question was using the C style casting syntax. I have started to use the "as" style cast more often and rewrote it. Then I decided to...

Posted to Alan Northam (Weblog) by anortham on 10-07-2007
How-To: "Cast" between List<T>'s

Problem : If you've ever tried to cast been list generics, you know that you can't. Example : 1. You have two classes Shape and Square, where Square inherits from Shape. 2. You have two generic lists, List<Shape> and List<Square>. 3. List<Square> does not inherit from List<Shape>...

Posted to Lou Haskett (Weblog) by Louis Haskett on 06-13-2007