Radical Wacko

Twitter Updates for 2009-02-12

RadicalWacko February 12th, 2009

MapMyRide.com: Completed Ride to Work. 344 (kcal). 4.90 mi.. 00:20:35 #
Don’t Click: http://tinyurl.com/amgzs6 #
RT: @cyclelicious: This may be the ultimate heart attack dish: http://tinyurl.com/a5pvvq #

Twitter Updates for 2009-02-11

RadicalWacko February 11th, 2009

MapMyRide.com: Completed Ride to Work. 349 (kcal). 4.90 mi.. 00:20:51 #
MapMyRide.com: Completed Ride Home from Work. 275 (kcal). 4.73 mi.. 00:20:35 #

Twitter Updates for 2009-02-10

RadicalWacko February 10th, 2009

MapMyRide.com: Completed Ride to Work. 282 (kcal). 4.90 mi.. 00:21:05 #
Racing tornados on a bike in February. Man I LOVE OKLAHOMA! #
MapMyRide.com: Completed My Ride Home. 260 (kcal). 4.49 mi.. 00:19:28 #

Twitter Updates for 2009-02-09

RadicalWacko February 9th, 2009

MapMyRide.com: Completed Commute to Work. 296 (kcal). 4.90 mi.. 00:22:06 #
MapMyRide.com: Completed Ride Home. 245 (kcal). 4.80 mi.. 00:24:24 #

Twitter Updates for 2009-01-31

RadicalWacko January 31st, 2009

Man, this headwind is killing me and I’ve got 10 more miles of it to go. #

Twitter Updates for 2009-01-30

RadicalWacko January 30th, 2009

Let the weekend begin. It’s been a week since my last ride. Can’t wait till tomorrow. #
For all of you OKC cyclists, I just published the Weekend Lake Trails Slush Report: http://tinyurl.com/cc6tbu #

Twitter Updates for 2009-01-29

RadicalWacko January 29th, 2009

It feels good to be back at work! #
Ah, Saigon Baguette how I’ve missed you! Tasty, tasty stuff! #

TryParse and Nullable Types

RadicalWacko January 29th, 2009

I just ran into an irritating little problem with using TryParse when assigning to nullable object. The following is the code I was using to assign a value from a ASP.NET dropdown list to a nullable Int32 variable:

If Int32.TryParse(ddlExample.SelectedValue, testobj.TestNullableInt32 )Then
     testobj.TestDescription = ddlExample.SelectedItem.Text
End If

Apparently, TryParse actually attempts to access the value of the object to which it attempts to assign the parsed value which can cause an InvalidOperationException when it attempts to retrieve the value of the nullable object. So make sure to assign the parsed value to a regular type before assigning it to a nullable object. Oh yeah, I know itâ€™s VB.NET code, but I do what the client wants.