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How to: Use OleDb to import text files (tab, csv, custom)
This post explains a little about using OleDb Jet Engine for import of delimited files, such as comma (CSV) and tab delimited files. A demo application can be downloaded to show how it works....
SAP is annoying me
I never had to do anything with SAP my self, other than interfacing from a .Net application. But since SAP has purchased Business Objects, I find I have to deal with them more and more. Why? Well, since SAP bought Business Objects, who bought Crystal...
Dynamic type support in C# aka Late Binding
VB6 and VB.Net developers know this feature: "Late Binding" and C# developers have often ridiculed that option. Buit it seems that the next version of Visual Studio will support a feature called "Dynamic type support". An article on...
Finding Memory Leaks in WPF-Based applications
No matter what people say, managed code applications can (and will) leak memory. I bumped into a blog post on MSDN today which describes how memory leaks in WPF applications can be avoided and found should they occur. From the blog post: In this blog...
How to: Check if the specified URL really exists
I think a lot of people need to do this, and we do in our project. We created a method that will check if URLs specified in our database (a couple of hundred) actually exist. Our support team uses the result of that check to update incorrect URLs in our...
Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2005 deployment trouble
I just spent 4 hours of figuring out why the reports we developed using Crystal Reports would not show the graphs after being deployed to our production server. We checked everything from access rights to proper installation of Crystal reports on the...