Unified Data Access For .NET? .NOT like that! Paschal points to a article by Philip Miseldine on how to use the Factory Pattern to achieve database independence in your .NET code. The article starts off with an explanation on how the Factory pattern works. The fact that the author felt this needed explaining shows a difference between the .NET world (where many developers are still relatively new to... (407 words, 13 Comments)
SharpReader 0.9.3.2 SharpReader 0.9.3.2 is now available at sharpreader.net. Changes since the last version are: Improved discovery of links between articles by fixing some minor bugs in the Regex used to find links in item-descriptions (with the help of Roy Osherove's Regulator) Returned to pre-0.9.3 algorithm for item comparisons - new algorithm was causing duplicate items in some feeds. Better memory cleanup... (151 words, 39 Comments)