Today I learned the value of the application.xaml file, which basically details your default values for control properties. The nice thing is that it lets you make controls that behave like a button, but can look like anything you want. So, I made me some nice rounded buttons based on a tutorial I viewed on the web. I also did the same with drop downs, which look real slick.
The biggest problem I've come across, surprisingly, is with LINQ to SQL stuff. All of my sites validate users via email, and the user table has a corresponding property called "Validated". I have a DEFAULT constraint setup to initialize it to FALSE, and when the user validates I change it to TRUE.
The problem I am having stems from the fact that when you insert a record through LINQ to SQL, it has no way of knowing what your DEFAULT constraint is, and thus expects a value. So far, I haven't figured out a way that allows the database to assign the value to this record while at the same time allowing me to later update that record without throwing an exception. The exception? LINQ believes that since you assigned a value at the database, you can't go and change it in code.
Well, that's certainly wrong, so I made a post to Microsoft's forums asking how to handle this. Hopefully that'll be up before I get home, and once that's resolved, the registration and validation process for Six Minutes To Release should finally be complete.
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In California, truck license plates are 7 characters, all numbers except for one letter in either the second or the sixth position. Whenever that letter is an X, I get nerd snipped into treating it as a multiplication problem and solving it in my head.
we should have paid more attention to the cats who, for decades, put their bodies on the line to walk on keyboards and sit on laptops and prevent us from programming
Former 2 time world champion DogPlayingTetris becomes the first player to ever rollover the level counter in NES Tetris, performing what's known in the community as "Rebirth". Final score: 29,486,164, 4216 lines, level 347 (256 + 91)... all huge world records. #tetris
I'd also love a 6 hour layover overnight instead of taking the red eye I was going to take and be 7 hours later getting into Cleveland than I wanted, why do you ask? #airporthell
Why yes, I'd love to leave at 4:40 to get to the airport at 6:20 for an 8:20 flight that got delayed to 9:05 which is too late for my connection so now I'm on a 10:20 flight instead. Why do you ask? #airporthell
@shanselman Who at Microsoft do I have to bribe to fix ADO so that those of us on dark mode who copy/paste text from one task to another can do so without our friends on light mode seeing dark text on a dark background?
I updated the blog post with a statement from Revival. While I'm not particularly happy with Revival's decision, I understand their motives. It's just a shame that it was someone from Interplay that had to go and do this. "By games for gamers" my ass.
Damn, got another Tetris world record! This time in the arcade variant developed by Atari. 6,008,005 points, 5,386 lines, round 363. Be warned, it's nearly FIVE HOURS. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2131759212