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raddevus wrote: I need to actually insert a System.DbNull.Value into the databse -- that's a true DBNull -- not the String null which the db chokes on. That statement makes no sense. Given a string/text value in a database it can have one of the following values. 1. Null 2. Empty string. Some databases do not allow this 3. Any other non-empty value. That list does not include 'DBNull'. The 'DBNull' value is usually a value that is intended as a stand in for results for the first item in the list above. Perhaps your real problem is that you need to represent the following 1. A value that is not null 2. User did not 'choose' anything. So you need to represent 'no value', but you cannot use 'null'. In the above you then use a magical value. If your database supports it and there NO chance it will be needed then an empty string can be used. But otherwise some nonsensical value is chosen. For example say you need to provide a customer telephone number. So you allow numbers. But for your special value you allow 'xxx-xxx-xxxx'. Naturally you must special case the code. HOWEVER, this is not an idea solution. And you should first examine the requirements that state that 'null' cannot be used in the first place. That the database does not allow it is NOT a argument for that. Because that to is just code and it must meet the needs of the business and not arbitrary developer opinions.

History: This was part of a batch of embarrassing internal junk, that lawyers forced to document as part of the DoJ consent decree in 2001. Basically, various API surface in Windows (mostly helper functions in Shell32.dll) that other products (mostly Office) were calling. It was never intended to see light of day.. obviously, it was the result of some dev who rotated from one org to another, and copy-pasted some helper function code from one product repo to another. I don't recall any of those lawyer-documented functions doing anything meaningful (that couldn't be replicated in user-mode code using existing Win32 APIs). But, try explaining that to DoJ lawyers..

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honey the codewitch wrote: I did not write it that way, and I'm not rewriting six files of macros. As I already said in my previous post...Your statement strongly suggested that you were responding to the code sample. To be very clear - that would be the code sample that was posted in this thread and not your code. That code sample does not require "six files of macros".

Having bothered to follow the link to the paper, and scan that, I'm unsurprised to note that the paper in way makes the suggestion that Octopuses came from space. Rather, that organic material from space (such as viruses) may have affected the DNA of hosts to result in the mutations that became Octopuses and related species. And the reviews summarised of the papers point out that there is insufficient evidence as yet to support even that claim. Sounds like Science continues to function as intended to me. Science journalism on the other hand... "If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.

You're thinking in technical terms. My issues with the previous ways of doing it are more "customer" issues than anything technical. Asking questions is a skill CodeProject Forum Guidelines Google: C# How to debug code Seriously, go read these articles. Dave Kreskowiak

That is what happens when the source control system requires comments but no one actually reviews code.

ha... some of the data was related to the currently much talked about vulnerability, I see... Mmm.. I am only at 2/4+ :laugh: A new .NET Serializer All in one Menu-Ribbon Bar Taking over the world since 1371!

Yeah I just deleted it. I accidently landed here instead of the lounge and I wasn't paying close enough attention apparently. Real programmers use butterflies

PIEBALDconsult wrote: Only works with base-10 ? You just need to add conversion functions and call them first. function hexToDec(number) { if (number === 1) return 1; else if (number === 2) return 2; //... else if (number === A) return 10; else if (number === B) return 11; //... } Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius

The comment block was test code. The error of my ways was an outdated idea of restricting access to tables in SQL coupled with stored procedure based field validation, which is where this came in. There is a code generator that produced this particular matcher. Real programmers use butterflies