Archive for January, 2007

Curious Database Indentity Fields

January 25th, 2007



Ah databases, now I’m no DBA by any stretch of the imagination, but I’ve recently come across a new trend in database design which I’m pretty sure isn’t ideal.
When designing databases I’ve always taken the basic principle of using identity fields in each table and using foreign keys to ‘link’ the tables, a pretty standard [...]

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Creating early bindable COM objects in .NET 2

January 22nd, 2007



Many will ask why do such a daft thing as creating COM objects in .NET? Well the answer is fairly simple, at my current place of work we only have Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and I needed to create a COM object for compatibility with an older application, which only understood early bound COM. The [...]

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