TML 5 is an interesting beastie. The specification was not planned; The W3C was committed to HTML 4.1 as the last word in HTML. As such, most of the requests
It’s best not to return null from a method that returns an array type. Always returning an array, even if the array has zero length, greatly improves the generality of
This query returns a list of all the user-defined functions in a SQL Server database. In a T-SQL Window, write this query, substituting the appropriate database name for the db_name
The String.Split method has few limitations. For example, it does not support splits on duplicate delimiters such as double pipe (||) characters, double tildes (~~), or double colons (::). The
You can select which column to sort a SELECT statement by at runtime, using just one parameter. To do this, declare one parameter and use it with a CASE command.
Type conversions are more error-prone than most code, so it’s useful to have ways to convert types in ways you know will work. The CanConvert method in this tip checks