It's time to meet the Guideline Support Library, a small helper library that provides some missing functionality. I'll show you how to ensure a pointer is never null, which will make your applications ...
The final part of The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is a face-off against the big bad behind it all, Null. After venturing into the Stilled Ancient Ruins, you’ll hit the point of no return, where ...
Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...
Take advantage of the null object pattern in .NET to eliminate the need for null checks and avoid runtime errors in your applications. You might often encounter null reference exceptions in your ...
Recent advances in imaging and tracing technology provide increasingly detailed reconstructions of brain connectomes. Concomitant analytic advances enable rigorous identification and quantification of ...
In this SQL Server tip, Arthur Fuller explains the effects of NULLs, and the different results obtained by inner and outer JOINs. SQL Server developers must understand two things: the difference ...
SELECT * FROM tbl_Students WHERE FirstName LIKE '%' + @FirstNameString + '% AND LastName LIKE '%' + @LastNameString + '% Anyway, I want the option for the user to specify one or both. So they can ...