by Brad | Dec 10, 2012 | SQL Server
So you want to update a single row in your table and then return the row identifier that was affected, here’s one way of going about it. Remember SCOPE_IDENTITY() is about inserting so as we are updating here we need a little something different. This will...
by Brad | Dec 3, 2012 | Windows 8
So I am an early adopter of windows 8 on both my home computers, the intro price was just too good to miss at £15 each to windows 8 pro including this media centre thing. My first peeve with windows 8 is that applications have a frozen interface, so...
by Brad | Aug 25, 2012 | Recommendations
So I have a broadband connection, a few computers, a quickcam pro 5000 and the desire to keep an eye on what happens in front of my house when I am not there.. Crap neighbour and foxes amongst other things.. So set up a solution based around yawcam which does all the...
by Brad | Dec 5, 2011 | Recommendations
I’m constantly seeing references to PowerShell in Visual Studio 2010 related tutorials, today I came across this thing… PowerShell and HTML5, and would love to get your feedback on a proof-of-concept. This prototype uses the System.Net.WebClient class to...
by Brad | Jul 6, 2011 | C#
Need to bind a web control to an OleDb data source in your C# web application, here’s the magic. In this case I am binding a ListBox control with an ID of ListBox1 to the ProductName field in the Products table of our old friend the Northwind database. These are...
