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New URL For ASP.NET Demos: dougv.net

The process of retiring / removing my Yahoo!-related handle continues. The latest step: a new URL for ASP.NET demos, which are hosted on another server.
From here on out, my ASP.NET demos will be hosted at dougv.net. This replaces the former URL, dhvrm.com.
I’ll leave dhvrm.com running for a while, but please correct your bookmarks as that [...]

Posting Status Updates (Tweets) To A Twitter Profile Via ASP.NET

I have a client that posts several news stories to its Web site every day. So it makes tremendous sense for them to post the headlines to Twitter as tweets, so that followers might be informed of breaking news, or just what’s new on the site.
The Twitter API makes posting status updates (tweets) to Twitter [...]

MSDN Roadshow In Augusta, March 19: Well Worth The Time

People love to criticize Microsoft, and much of the criticism it gets is deserved (when you release patches to your OS that are bigger than the original software, you probably deserve some negative press). But the one thing Microsoft does better than anyone is product support, especially developer support.
Enter the MSDN Roadshow, a series of [...]

New Site For ASP.NET Demos: dhvrm.com

I have launched a new Web site to demo ASP.NET scripts. It is http://www.dhvrm.com.
I decided to create the site after reviewing my last couple of ASP.NET entries on this site and discovering that they have some serious errors. I’ll be updating each with new posts as time allows.
For the moment, there isn’t much to see [...]

Objects (Classes) Explained In Very Simple Terms

One of the most common questions on Yahoo! Answers is how classes or objects, or the parts of a class / object, such as properties, methods and events, work.
Here’s a gross simplification of how classes and objects work. Most of this is lifted from a previous blog entry, Interpreting A C# Class Code Structure.
Classes / [...]

Variable Scope Made Simple

Recently asked on Yahoo! Answers:

What does this statement mean? “Local variables are local to a function or a procedure.”?

What it means, in a nutshell, is if you declare a variable inside a function or procedure, you cannot get the value of that variable from outside that function or procedure.