I know. I know. I know. I wasn't able to post anything this past few weeks. It's been really busy and the amount of task that i would be dealing in the next few days is going to get crazier because of my current project. I'm currently working on a KPI project that involves building custom dashboards using Dundas Charts, Microsoft Reporting Services, ASP.NET and alot of SQL Server data. Much of the task has been data mining and making sure that data represented on the screen matches the actual amounts stored in the database.

All I can say is that it's a tedious and messy process.

Currently we are in the last leg of development and QA should be underway in the next few days. Hopefully by that time I would have some extra time to resume my blogging activites (hehe).

So, what should you expect in the next few days? Well, I have a few things listed in my notepad that I am planning to post once I get my much covetted free time. Here's some things that i have on my list: the ADO.NET walkthrough I promised Marl, a real-world example on Lambda Expressions (jakelite has my favorite explanation about Lamda), some more LINQ stuff and an ASP.NET AJAX sample application that I have been brewing in my head for more than a month.

Oh well, time to work again. I'll keep you guys updated! Later!

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Here's a small trick i use alot. Question: What's the easiest way to get the distict rows of data in a DataTable and DataView in .NET 2.0? Answer: The easiest way to get distinct DataRows in a DataTable or DataView is by using the DataView.ToTable() method. Here is a demonstration

It's funny, just after posting this post in response to an article that N@rds posted that I realized that I have been preaching about extension methods and his problem was a great example on when to make use of this excellent feature.

I was browsing at DevPinoy.org today when I saw this interesting post by n@rds about searching for files in a directory using multiple search patterns and it made me realize that there are alot of ways you can accomplish this task. Here are some examples on how you can search files in a directory using multiple search patterns

I wrote an article about this topic a few months ago but I wanted to explain it a little further in this article by showing real-world scenarios on when and how to use this feature. So what does Extension Method mean? According to MSDN: "Extension methods enable you to "add" methods to existing types without creating a new derived type, recompiling, or otherwise modifying the original type. Extension methods are a special kind of static method, but they are called as if they were instance methods on the extended type." Now that we have that settled lets look at a good scenario that depicts a great time when to use an Extension Method.