At one of the blogs I most frequent there was a post asking, “Where is the bug?”. In the comments section it was mentioned, Use ToUpperInvariant rather than ToLowerInvariant when normalizing strings for comparison. Sure enough if you go to the Microsoft page on it, it says Use the String.ToUpperInvariant method instead of the String.ToLowerInvariant […]
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Just wanted to throw in a quick write up about common table expressions (CTE) in sql server. There are plenty of good and complete write-ups on ctes floating around teh tubes these days but I wanted to address my paticular issue, if nothing else so I don’t forget about them. Imagine you have a hiearchy […]
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Build Action: Content Copy to Output: Copy always (or ‘Copy if newer’, either should work) I spent a half an hour trying to figure out why my application bar was showing an “X” instead of the image I was putting in IconUri. When first adding images the properties default to: Build Action: Resource Copy to […]
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