October 2007 - Posts

VS2008 VPCs Expiring 11/1 - Backup Your Data Now by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

I just read a post stating that the Visual Studio 2008 VPCs are expiring on November 1st, 2007. It is recommended that you backup any data that you don't want to lose as soon as possible. More information can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffbe...
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Pennsylvania Cell Phone Ban - Hoax by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

I've been getting emails from numerous people about a Pennsylvania Cell Phone ban. There's been two different letters going around. One looks like a legitimate house bill and the other looks like a legistlative briefing ( http://urbanlegends.about...
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VB.NET's "yield return" by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

I was struggling with an issue today when converting some C# to VB.NET. C# has a really cool "yield return" statement that is used in an iterator block to provide a value to the enumerator object. VB.NET does not have the "yield" keyword...
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Writing a Base64 String to the File System or Browser by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

Quite often, vendors pass images or PDFs to customers using the binary contents of the file. To make it more secure, they convert the binary contents to a Base64 string. A full explanation about Base64 encoding can be found at Wikipedia here . Anyway...
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Week In Review - Base Class Library Source, MVP, ASPInsiders by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

On Wednesday, Scott Guthrie announced that beginning with version 3.5 of the .NET Framework (and VS2008), the base class libraries will be browsable and can be used for debugging purposes. On Tuesday I found out that I received the MVP award again. Congrats...
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