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Copying an instance of a class object

I recently had a need to copy the instance of a fairly complex class object. More specifically what wanted was to load and instance of the object, from a data source. The object had about 40 properties some of which where collections of other classes. So creating a new instance of the object then setting...

Posted to Tim Laughlin's Everything VB.NET Blog (Weblog) by tlaughlin on 02-04-2008
ASP.NET Listbox missing selecteditems property

I found an announce today while creating a VB.NET, ASP.net application. I needed a to determine the items selected in a ListBox control which has it's SelectionMode="Multiple" property set. However, ListBox doesn't have a selecteditems property. It only has the singular version of selecteditem...

Posted to Tim Laughlin's Everything VB.NET Blog (Weblog) by tlaughlin on 08-03-2007
TomTom 910 and Blackberry 8800 on Cingurlar

So I was the proud recipient of a TomTom 910 for Father's Day! Woo Hoo, now I can get lost and blame it on the British women giving me directions. Of course being the geek I am I had to make it work with my other toys, I mean business tools. So, handsfree call an the Blackberry a piece of cake and well...

Posted to Tim Laughlin's Everything VB.NET Blog (Weblog) by tlaughlin on 06-18-2007
Debugging an installer class in VB.NET

Today was was trying to debug some code in at Installer class. Basically the code would read a sql script and create a new database. Of course I needed to debug the code within the installer class, but I couldn't seem to find a way to get my breakpoints to stop execution. I tried attaching the the setup...

Posted to Tim Laughlin's Everything VB.NET Blog (Weblog) by tlaughlin on 05-29-2007
Webbrowser Control with Frames and multiple DocumentCompleted event firing

Back when I started this blog I had all the good intentions of keeping up with it. Adding post daily. Then of course life got in the way and I haven't posted in a while. However, today I was doing some work with the webbrowser control in VB.NET, for a new project. Very cool control and really does a...

Posted to Tim Laughlin's Everything VB.NET Blog (Weblog) by tlaughlin on 04-10-2007
Embedding an icon into your EXE or DLL

In writing smaller self contained application you may not want to go through effort of utilization a resource file in VB.NET. Instead you may want to embed your graphical resources directly into your EXE or DLL. To this is very easy on you have the correct steps. 1. In VS.net add your icon files to your...

Posted to Tim Laughlin's Everything VB.NET Blog (Weblog) by tlaughlin on 01-17-2007
Nullable Generic Structure

I discovered a small gem within the .net 2.0 framework, system.nullable. This structure takes a parameter of the underlying data type you want to use. So for example you can now set a integer to nothing rather then setting it some value and trying to remember through out your code that the value should...

Posted to Tim Laughlin's Everything VB.NET Blog (Weblog) by tlaughlin on 12-28-2006
XPath with Namespace in VB.NET

I was working a Google Map api project and I ran into XML syntax that a Namespace on the root element. <kml xmlns="http://earth.google.com/kml/2.0"> When this document is loaded in to the xmlDocument and tried use the selectsinglenode function and would never get my node. That's when I discovered...

Posted to Tim Laughlin's Everything VB.NET Blog (Weblog) by tlaughlin on 12-09-2006
Web.config and customErrors Element

I have been noticing on Community Server forums people are stumped on where to turn when they get the error.htm page with looks like this: Oops something went wrong! Either the site is offline or an unhandled error occurred. We apologize and have logged the error. Please try your request again or if...

Posted to Tim Laughlin's Everything VB.NET Blog (Weblog) by tlaughlin on 11-28-2006
Editting the email templates for system generated email

Yesterday I was reading Community Server and someone asked how to edit an email template in CS . That reminded me I needed to brand some emails for a community I work with, but had been putting it off. So I figured it was time to figure out how to do this. So a couple minutes of digging I found that...

Posted to Tim Laughlin's Everything VB.NET Blog (Weblog) by tlaughlin on 11-16-2006

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