Adobe Creative Could Desktop is the software that runs on your computer and allows you to keep your Adobe software (Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, etc.) up-to-date. Creative Cloud notifies you when an update is available for those programs and lets you download and install the new versions. Error 50 So far so good. The problem is …
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When using Linq To SQL, here’s the pattern I use to retry an operation after it failed because a deadlock occured in a SQL Database: while (true) { try { using (var scope = new TransactionScope()) { using (var db = new MyDataContext()) { // Do what you need to do on the DB… db.SubmitChanges(); …
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If you’d listen to Microsoft, you’d believe than in Linq to SQL, you can’t reattach a changed entity to a new DataContext and submit the changed entity to the database. Well this isn’t true. It can be done with a little bit of foresight. The first step is to make sure that the underlying table …
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If you have ever used the Microsoft Office COM Interop classes to automate Word (or any other Office Application), you know those methods often take a lot of parameters, which can be tedious. Note: This was written a while ago before .Net 4.0 was available. .Net 4.0 introduces the dynamic keyword which makes COM Interop …
Introduction After some time learning Python and tinkering with it, I decided that it was time to use it in a “real world” application. After some thinking, I came up with the idea to program a web gallery generator, which would not be a too big project to work on my spare time and would …
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