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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 12:21 PM

Entity Framework Petition of Vote of Non Confidence

I had intended to be happy simply being a signatory of ADO .NET Entity Framework Vote of No Confidence. But, there's people suggesting signatories of this petition are wackos or on the fringe. Do yourself a favour and read the petition . Read what...
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007 11:36 AM

System.Collections classes are obsolete

Collection classes like ArrayList, SortedList, Stack and Hashtable will shortly be obsoleted (i.e. the ObsoleteAttribute will be applied to them in upcoming .NET Framework builds). You can start to see this in the Silverlight Alpha (i.e. the Obsolete...
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007 12:25 PM

DateTime.ToUniversalTime *Should* Throw Exceptinos.

A recent .NET Base Class Library blog post points out that DateTime.ToUniversalTime does not throw an exception for overflow values. This circumvents different Microsoft-sanctioned guidelines about using exceptions for exceptional situations, error reporting...
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