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		<title>Serializing with WCF</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First of all, I want to apologize for the amount of time it has taken me to put up a new blog post. I typically try to write once a week, but my life has been crazy as of late. The outcome of all of the madness is that I will be packing up my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dotnetthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1610521&amp;post=37&amp;subd=dotnetthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Persisting the Doubly Linked List</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 17:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, we discovered that I needed a doubly linked list to chain objects together in our code. .Net has made this an incredibly easy process, as it provides a LinkedList generic object which manages the creation of the list, as well as the inserting and the deletion of the nodes. Our project also requires that we persist our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dotnetthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1610521&amp;post=35&amp;subd=dotnetthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Merry Christmas!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Merry Christmas everyone! I hope this holiday finds you happy and healthy with your loved ones! We&#8217;ve made the journey north to Washington to be with our families, and the kids are very excited for Christmas this year. In celebration of Christmas, I thought that I would share with you a coded Christmas tree. I learned [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dotnetthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1610521&amp;post=33&amp;subd=dotnetthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Linq Jukebox &#8211; Part 2 (LINQ Joins)</title>
		<link>http://dotnetthoughts.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/the-linq-jukebox-part-2-linq-joins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2007 07:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I blogged about creating a jukebox using LINQ to query the filesystem. We used a quick-and-dirty query to join properties from three different objects (two directory objects and a file object) into an anonymous type which represented the music folder hierarchy on my machine. It was a pretty neat first attempt at using LINQ, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dotnetthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1610521&amp;post=32&amp;subd=dotnetthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Linq Jukebox</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, the Portland Area Dot Net Users&#8217; Group had an installation party for Visual Studio 2008. During the event, they had a contest to see who could come up with the best LINQ sample. The winner would receive a customized Zune. While I had not yet used LINQ, I decided to throw my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dotnetthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1610521&amp;post=29&amp;subd=dotnetthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Debug and Release Builds</title>
		<link>http://dotnetthoughts.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/debug-and-release-builds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Occassionally, I find old code concepts rattling around in my head that just don&#8217;t apply in today&#8217;s world. My most recent one was the difference between release and debug builds. Back in VB6 days, one of the big reasons for creating a debug build was the generation of the pdb file. The pdb (portable database) file contained information [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dotnetthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1610521&amp;post=27&amp;subd=dotnetthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Interview Question (and a Thanksgiving note)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:21:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interviewing potential hires is always tough. Determining whether or not somebody is good for your team from a technical and personality standpoint based on a two page resume and an hour interview is a nearly impossible job. I&#8217;ve made a number of hiring decisions over the years. Some of them worked out quite well; others, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dotnetthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1610521&amp;post=25&amp;subd=dotnetthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TransactionScope and Unit Tests</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2007 14:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing unit tests to validate a data access layer (DAL) can be a time consuming (but life saving) task. One of the biggest challanges of DAL unit tests is assuring that you have consistent data to pull from the database. Dedicating a database with static data for unit tests doesn&#8217;t always work. As unit tests are added to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dotnetthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1610521&amp;post=24&amp;subd=dotnetthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where Did My Exception Occur?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 15:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of times a day, this blog takes a hit from someone trying to figure out how to programmatically determine on what line number an exception occurred. Determining this information actually turns out to be a fairly straight forward operation. The one caveat for retrieving exception line numbers is that your application must have access to the portable database [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dotnetthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1610521&amp;post=21&amp;subd=dotnetthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doubles, Decimals, and Dividing by Zero</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;.Net Exception Divide by zero&#8221; often comes up as a search criteria when this blog is hit. (I use division by zero a lot when I&#8217;m writing about errors and exception handling. It&#8217;s easy to create, and it&#8217;s easy to understand.) I couldn&#8217;t quite figure out exactly why anybody would be querying on it directly. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dotnetthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1610521&amp;post=19&amp;subd=dotnetthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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