Devin Manno 
May 17, 2016The XML datatype in SQL Server allows you to store, process and query XML rather easily. There are some caveats, however: You can not compare or order by an XML data type field in SQL Server Entity Framework does not support the XML data type, so your XML field will be converted to a string Continue reading →
Devin Manno April 10, 2015The JavaScript function document.getElementById(), long a staple in the front-end web development community, seems pretty straightforward. Unless you’re maintaining an application that uses a legacy Internet Explorer document mode. I found this out the hard way when debugging a legacy application that had been running in IE 5 quirks document mode. After wrapping the legacy Continue reading →
Devin Manno October 10, 2014If you, like me, work with legacy enterprise web applications, you may need to run the web applications in a legacy document mode. This allows support for non-compliant markup that works with old versions of Internet Explorer. When you then add new content that requires modern web browser functionality, you may find yourself placing said Continue reading →
Devin Manno July 1, 2013While working with Microsoft’s Open XML SDK 2.5, I came across some difficulties writing dates to an Excel workbook. When writing dates to an existing Excel file used as a template, I noticed that the dates I was passing to my writeToCell() method did not match the dates I found when I opened up the Continue reading →
Devin Manno May 5, 2013As I embarked on a new mission to write a home media server application in C#, I needed a way to store an index of media files on my home computer. I could have gone the flat-file route, and stored file information in a simple delimited index file. Instead, I decided to delve into object-relational Continue reading →