J. Ambrose Little

Ambrose currently works as the Codemunicator for Infragistics, the leader in presentation layer components. He's contributed to two books, Professional ADO.NET 2 and ASP.NET 2 MVP Hacks, both by Wrox, and he speaks at local events and conferences when he can. You can reach him via email or his blog at http://dotNetTemplar.Net .

Articles Authored

Purporting the Potence of Process

Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Published in: CODE Magazine: 2007 - March/April

Do you ever feel like you’re beating your head against a wall? I know I do; quite often, in fact. It seems like developers spend half of their time bending technology to their purposes when the technology doesn’t really quite fit. Well, I’m actually thinking of one problem in particular right now, namely that of validation. Can you think of a more boring topic? There are few, but I think you can agree that it is an extremely important one in business software.
I Object

Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Published in: CODE Magazine: 2006 - January/February

I Object
- Architecture
- Object Oriented Development
Am I a Mad Scientist?

Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Published in: CODE Magazine: 2005 - May/June

Do you want to save keystrokes?Do you want to ease maintenance? Do you want inline information about the code structures that you're working with? How about statement completion? Are you interested in increasing the potential for code reuse? Do you want your applications to run faster and require less memory? Do you prefer to have users find bugs or do you prefer to find them yourself?
Sorting Custom Collections

Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Published in: CODE Magazine: 2005 - January/February

Have you ever wanted to use a strongly-typed collection to bind your data presentation controls to, only to find that you have very limited sorting capabilities, if any at all?If you are trying to stick to good object-oriented design and shrink the amount of data that you keep in memory, transfer from your data source, or serialize to clients, you likely have run into this situation because you are using strongly-typed collections of your domain objects. So what do you do if you need to sort those collections for presentation or faster searching?

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