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This was interesting - I had a uniqueidentifier as an output parameter from a sproc and wanted to put it into a Guid.Guid guid = (Guid)sqlCmd.Parameters["@UserID"].Value;No. That throws System.InvalidCastException : Invalid cast from 'System.String' to 'System.Guid'. Ah, so it's a string, ok.Guid guid = new ...

I'm quite looking forward to reviewing links between my sites and others, and applying XFN's rel="me", rel="friend" etc. Read more about XFN and check out this cool video from Google (via shoemoney).

My daughter thinks it's funny when I talk about Gmail - she says it sounds like "super hero mail". I am of course ok with that. I've been using it more and more recently. I've been sucking in my personal email to Gmail for a month or so and reading it there. When I went on vacation for a week I was reading it on my phone ...

Perhaps I should name 5 other people to modify this script when I'm done. First, it was Wyatt, then Jon, then Rich - and probably many others. Well, it's my turn dammit. I keep getting code from contractors that have _svn folders in them - and the script I got from Jon only looks for the .svn that I use. So here is the quick fix ...

I was just reading Jason Alexander's new blog post about an old code drop for Authorize.net and was trying to find the old post he was referring to. Obviously, I went to Google to find the old cache; http://www.google.com/search?q=authorize.net+jason+alexander What amazed me was the first result - not the old one, but the post made 35 ...

Yeah, working as a FTE does change your perspective. Way, way back I loved reading about and playing with SEO techniques - all new and sneaky. Just this month I've started looking around again at what's going on and frankly I'm stunned. All this talk of people earning $1m/month. wtf? I hadn't even heard of Google TrustRank until ...

We were chatting the other day about storing collections of strongly typed data in a database and I mentioned how I once used the really simply DataSet method to store into session. It works storing into a database too. There are lots of ways to skin this cat, but here's what I've done. The idea is to get your data into a DataSet, then ...

I went to renew my Microsoft Partner Program membership today before it runs out at the end of the month. For a few hundred bucks I get 10 copies of XP and Office to use around the house - there are other benefits, but that alone makes me renew each year. This year, something is different. I'm now using FF as my default browser... So when I ...

I just got this error when calling List<x>.RemoveRange(pos, int.MaxValue):Offset and length were out of bounds for the array or count is greater than the number of elements from index to the end of the source collection.What's the point of that? Why on earth wouldn't you just delete to the end of the array and be done with ...

It's the last day before the Christmas break, and an old colleague sent me a invite to linkup on spock.com - looks like another Plaxo knockoff at first glance.  Having never visited this site before I thought I'd search for myself. This is what I saw..     [include:blogad]