I think Lambda expression are cool. Not only are cool, they are pretty powerful and can make your code a lot more readable and compact. I wrote this article here about how to simply use LINQ to Reflection to list the methods and types of an assembly. In this example I will use the same […]
Read More →Reflection is used to read meta data from a .Net assembly. For example, if you what to find all the method inside of a .dll, you can use Reflection to do it. You can also load and execute the method. I find it an interesting concept that we have the capability to search and use […]
Read More →Reducing the number of tasks during deployment of a new system or version update does, at least, 2 things. Fewer number of tasks means it takes less time Fewer number of tasks means less items to troubleshoot if something doesn’t work Removing the installation and configuration of an Oracle Client can now be avoided from […]
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A few months ago I wrote a question asking for solutions to this error. There were some good answers but none of them provided me with a work around that was database independent. At least something that would work with both Oracle and SQL Server. I was implementing some calculated fields in NHibernate and I […]
Read More →Firstly, let me say that there is nothing special about this upgrade. The instructions which I wrote here will still work with an 11g database. The issue I had was more with, what is the difference between a SID and a SERVICE_NAME which is used to identify the data instance to connection to. The SID […]
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