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Bool Format Provider
Posted on08. Mar, 2010 by Sam Critchley.
I did a quick bit of research a while ago into how .Net converts a Boolean value to a string (via System.Bool.ToString). It does not make use of the current culture format provider so as such there is no way to easily tap in and override this methods behaviour.
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Managing Exceptions & SQL Transactions
Posted on03. Mar, 2010 by Sam Critchley.
A very common approach to managing exceptions that occur while a database transaction is in progress is to simply wrap it in a try catch block and if an exception occurs call Rollback on the transaction.
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Writing a Watermark jQuery Plugin
Posted on15. Feb, 2010 by Sam Critchley.
This article shows how to create a watermark plugin which can be used on textboxes or text areas. The watermark effect allows the developer to specify some brief instructive text inside the textbox without having to interfere with the use of the textbox.

