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Caracole – a new beginning

Posted on June 13, 2017March 2, 2018 by Jim Leave a comment
I recently started a new position with Caracole (a furniture company) as an IT Programmer.  Now that title may not sound like much, but it is much more then what it sounds like.  It is a relatively small company backed by a much larger company in China.  Here at Caracole, we design the furniture, market […]... Read More
Posted in Software DevelopmentTagged Code MVC WebApi

COMB GUID, what is it and why should I use it

Posted on January 23, 2017March 2, 2018 by Jim Leave a comment
GUIDs (Globally Unique Identifier) can be a good choice for the ID or Key value in a database table, but it’s randomness is not good for the database when it comes to indexing the data and sorting the rows of data based on that GUID ID. But a COMB GUID, basically a combination GUID with […]... Read More
Posted in Software DevelopmentTagged .Net Code

MERGE command in SQL

Posted on February 6, 2015March 2, 2018 by Jim Leave a comment
I just recently started using the MERGE command in SQL.  You would use this instead of a IF, Then, Else statement.  It doesn’t make sense to use this in place of If, Then, Else all the time, but in certain circumstances.  My example is repetition in checking, then inserting or updating data, across Development, Stage […]... Read More
Posted in Software DevelopmentTagged Code SQL

Where is your Right Click Context Menu?

Posted on July 15, 2011March 2, 2018 by jrblack 6 Comments
Recently working on the UI of a WPF project I struggled attempting to get the Right Click Context Menu to appear as normal, to the right and below the mouse pointer.  No matter what options I used with ContextMenu (.Placement and .PlacementRectangle) the Context Menu would appear to the left and down instead of the […]... Read More
Posted in Software Development, UncategorizedTagged Code WPF

Removing Duplicates in a DropDownList

Posted on October 20, 2010March 2, 2018 by jrblack Leave a comment
In a recent project enhancing some functionality to an existing .Net v2.x web application I had the need to remove duplicate entries in a DropDownList.  As with most challenges I haven’ had the pleasure of resolving before, I took it to Google.  Of course I got a plethora of suggestions to eliminate the duplicates in […]... Read More
Posted in Software DevelopmentTagged .Net Code

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