If you’ve been a developer for more than five or six years then you have certainly developed software that required writing a set of classes for persistence operations. Such classes have the SQL queries necessary to insert, update, or retrieve data from the database. They can also fill in objects suitable to pass to the …
Enum is a keyword that stands for the enumeration in c#. It’s a distinct type consisting of a set of named constants called the “Enumerator list” which can take multiple types except the char type. It can also be defined as strongly typed constants. The default underlying type of the enumeration elements is int. By …
A few weeks ago I was given the task to create a web page that runs an SSIS package. This is necessary when users want to run the SSIS package at any time without going to the DB admin. It’s also required when users run the package often and would prefer the convenience of simply clicking …
Using the available tools/add-ins for Visual Studio® .NET will help you deliver good code quality in less time. I am going to introduce some of the best tools that I use every day, and give a quick tutorial on how to use each of them. Having the right tools can make a big difference in …
When you work with enterprise projects, you will almost always be dealing with a database. Considering this, it is essential to save the data in the most effective way possible. This means starting by choosing the appropriate data type and ending by saving the data appropriately. For example, if you want to save the date, …
One of my colleagues recently asked me, “How can I tell if an IP address is within a specific IP Range?” This question seemed to have an easy answer at first. But after taking a deeper look, I found that there are many possibilities to consider when determining if an IP is within a certain …