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Sending Email Landscape style in Cocos2D

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  [Concrete/Interesting] You know when sometimes a piece of code seems really simple, but it just won’t go right? The code just won’t behave properly. Fix one problem and another one pops up... Well, all I wanted was to use MFMailComposeViewController in my Cocos2d application. I’ve done it before so thought it would be a quick job. After many, many hours, I got it working, so to save you all the effort, here is what I did. Landscape and MFMailComposeViewController The problem was the game is in Landscape mode and it seems the mail view controller doesn’t like landscape. Works beautifully on the iPad, but the iPhone sees the world in Portrait. The standard method to launch email is to call presentModelViewController . Here’s the sort of thing that works well in Portrait: //Create the mail view controller MFMailComposeViewController *picker = [[MFMailComposeViewController alloc] init]; picker.mailComposeDelegate = self; [picker setSubject: @"The Title" ]; // Email B

LINQ to SQL Dynamic Stored Procedures

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[Concrete/Little bit interesting] I wanted to call stored procedures by name using a string parameter. Sounds simple and with ADO it's a breeze. But with LINQ to SQL, life is a little more complicated. Here is how I cracked the problem.       LINQ to SQL In Visual Studio, when you add LINQ to SQL Classes to you project, you are creating a class that provides a convenient set of classes for managing tables, views, functions and stored procedures: When you add LINQ to SQL Classes to your project, Visual Studio creates a .DBML file set. These files describe the managed entities with partial class definitions. The main class is derived from System.Data.Linq.DataContext and provides the link between your code and the database connection. LINQ to SQL works through defining class members that maps LINQ onto the entity and makes use of attributes to map columns, parameters and returns to .Net classes. LINQ to SQL Classes takes a lot of code out of your application and is easy to