Converting Karl Shifflett’s CipherText application from VB.NET to C#

Source Code meets Cascading Style Sheets – makes baby

by Aaron Hoffman

If you’re a developer and you blog about code, you might find that from time to time you may wish to add a snippet of source code to your blog post.  There are may ways to do this, but these are a few of the easiest I’ve found.

Deconstructing a LINQ Statement

by Aaron Hoffman

(download source code: http://aaronhoffman.googlecode.com/files/AaronHoffmanLinqDemov01.zip )

LINQ is a valuable tool, but because of the way it is usually demonstrated, developers think that its only use is for querying a Microsoft SQL Server database. This is because what is usually being demonstrated along with LINQ, is LINQ to SQL. LINQ is not just LINQ to SQL. I like to think of LINQ as a shorthand (or syntax shortcut) way of writing code - a way to write less lines of code (or simplify code), but still perform the same operations (kind of like what foreach is to the for loop).