A question posed by @Ramsharma1234 on Twitter this morning asked how to implement Factory Patterns in ASP.NET. (definition of Factory Pattern) Below is what would be considered a very basic form of Factory Pattern. This method will essentially instantiate a generic Object, which is the parent of all types of Objects, and later be treated … Read more
Programmatically setting the connection string for a Crystal Reports ReportDocument will allow you to have the report automatically use the active connection string for the rest of the application (as in previous posts). In this case, the report is created using a method that is triggered by clicking a button on a form. The log … Read more
Even though I have been writing programs for most of my life, that does not mean that my programs have always been written well. Only following the standard prohibitions on spaghetti code and documenting well does not a good program make. The best advice I ever got about writing programs was to read two books: … Read more