Technology Related Links – Post #1 by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

I’m going to try to put together a list of links I grab and post them to intermittent blog posts. I’d like to do a post like this once a day or at the very least once a week, but let’s see where things go. :) Anyway, here’s the first batch of links summarized...

Use LINQ to XML to Generate Excel Documents by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

I was looking for a quick and easy solution to export data from SQL into an Excel format from within my ASP.NET application. I came across a great video posted by Beth Massi on the asp.net website (Video #7 at the bottom at http://www.asp.net/learn/linq...

Obtain the Identity of a New Row Using LINQ by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

It's actually pretty easy and user friendly to obtain the value of the identity column using LINQ. After you create your object and insert it on submit, you can call the identity column's property on your object. For instance: Dim db As New BlogDataContext...

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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