2007–2009
1,356 posts
2009 583
December 2009
- Believe it or not, it’s almost 2010
- Program Files Environment Variable in PowerShell
- Silverlight Cream for December 28, 2009 -- #765
- .NET WCF services and Java Web Services Interoperability - Part 1 of 3
- Silverlight Cream for December 26, 2009 -- #764
- Dynamic Compilation of ASP.NET Pages
- Silverlight Cream for December 25, 2009 -- #763
- What is Microsoft “Dallas”?
- SQL's "like" patterns to compare in .Net
- How to enable RemoteApp (via RDP 7.0) within VirtualBox or VMWare running Windows 7, Vista SP1+ or Windows XP SP3
- Moving your ASP.NET Application to Windows Azure – Part I
- MSDN Flash Podcast 017 – Hadi Hariri talks Behavior Driven Development
- There is no disc in the drive. (fixed)
- Scrum Tool Review: "Scrum Tool"
- SQL Azure Connection Error: "Server name cannot be determined. It must appear as the first segment..." - Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2
- Silverlight Cream for December 16, 2009 -- #757
- Comparing Entity Framework 4 New Stored Procedure Support to LINQ to SQL
- BizTalk Server 2009 - SOA Patterns Chapter 1
- Exporting SSRS Report with Excel Formulas Preserved
- Using WCF RIA Services without Silverlight in Visual Studio 2010 for building 3 tier ASP.NET Applications
- BizTalk Server 2009 - SOA Patterns Introduction
- Use UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged for immediate updates of bound XAML controls
- Silverlight Cream for December 10, 2009 -- #754
- Silverlight Cream for December 09, 2009 -- #753
- Demystifying LINQ Aggregates
- Silverlight Cream for December 08, 2009 -- #752
- How to setup a SQL Server alias and when is a connection alias useful for developers?
- TFS 2010 – Managing Build Agents using the API
- KNN (K – nearest neighbours) estimation in .NET
- Silverlight Cream for December 06, 2009 -- #750
- Silverlight Cream for December 05, 2009 -- #749
- Differences between using the ‘Convert’ class vs. casting (Part 2 of 2)
- Silverlight Cream for December 04, 2009 -- #748
- Creating a Generic Entity Framework 4.0 Repository
- Silverlight Cream for December 02, 2009 -- #746
- Web Application Performance: CSS Data URIs
November 2009
- Silverlight Cream for November 30, 2009 -- #745
- Differences between using the ‘Convert’ class vs. casting (Part 1 of 2)
- Silverlight Cream for November 29, 2009 -- #744
- Getting Started with Entity Framework 4 – Lazy Loading
- Including custom client-side validations in your ASP.NET MVC app
- Silverlight Cream for November 24, 2009 - 2 -- #743 - updated
- Silverlight Cream for November 24, 2009 -- #742
- Getting Started with Entity Framework 4 – Complex Types and Entities
- QandA: Is the ADO.NET Entity Data Model designer fixed in .NET 4?
- Silverlight Cream for November 23, 2009 -- #741
- Validating business objects with AOP (3: UI with ASP.NET MVC + xVal)
- Automatic Null Checks
- Processing Excel uploads with BizTalk and nServiceBus
- T4 Templates and the answer to life, the universe and everything
- Tangible T4 Editor – a life saver
- Silverlight Cream for November 19, 2009 - 2 -- #736
- Silverlight Cream for November 19, 2009 -- #735
- Getting Started with Entity Framework 4 - Templated Code Generation
- Why does SubSonic’s SimpleRepository ‘Add<T>’ return a decimal instead of an int? (Part 2)
- Validating business objects with AOP (2: persistence with NHibernate)
- Silverlight 4 Beta is Out!
- Getting Started with Entity Framework 4 – Simple Model First Example
- BizTalk: xpath: How to work with empty and Null elements in the Orchestration
- Azure November CTP announced
- Silverlight Cream for November 15, 2009 -- #732
- Adventures in MVVM -- Dependant Properties with INotifyPropertyChanged
- Exchange 2007 Routing Group Connector Mayhem
- TechEd Europe 2009 Highlights and Lowlights
- Connect to VMWare virtual machines using Remote Desktop
- Including ad-hoc specifications in your test report
- Silverlight Cream for November 11, 2009 -- #729
- Did you know Microsoft makes a mocking tool? Meet the latest version of Pex
- SQL Server Management Studio now supports SQL Azure
- Solving 'KataPotter', or: What kind of developer are you ?
- Sproc Executing Slow? It Might be This
- Retrieving Nested Properties from Lambda Expressions
- IronRuby and Cucumber - Installation (Part 1 of 3)
- IronRuby and Cucumber - Cucumber Tutorial (Part 3 of 3)
- Silverlight Cream for November 04, 2009 -- #725
- How to enable PowerShell in Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
- LiveLabs Thumbtack back from the dead
- Silverlight Cream for November 03, 2009 - 2 -- #724
- TDD is not about testing, it's about how we develop software
- Silverlight Cream for November 02, 2009 -- #722
- Windows Virtual PC: I Can’t Stand the Way You Tease
- Unit testing ASP.NET MVC routes
October 2009
- Silverlight Cream for October 31, 2009 -- #721
- October Rules Fest: Day 4
- Steps to Resolve SSRS Timeout Issues
- October Rules Fest: Day 5
- QuickTip: Attach the VS Debugger to IIS’s Worker Process in a single keystroke
- Silverlight Cream for October 29, 2009 -- #720
- LINQ: GroupBy method tutorial
- jQuery Date Validation in Chrome
- LINQ Overview, part three (Anonymous Types)
- Setting SharePoint Form Fields Using Query String Variables Without Using JavaScript
- October Rules Fest: Day 3
- ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Tips: Provide immediate feedback to the browser on Long Running Tasks – using regular web handler
- ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Tips: Provide immediate feedback to the browser on Long Running Tasks – by streaming regular ASP.NET page
- ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Tips: Provide immediate feedback to the browser on Long Running Tasks – in Asynchronous ASP.NET pages
- Silverlight Cream for October 27, 2009 -- #717
- WCF Message Compression - Gzip, 7zip
- October Rules Fest: Day 2
- Free WPF, Silverlight and 3.5 SP1 training for UK Developers
- Tips on Connecting to the New Team Foundation Server and moving a project
- ASP.NET MVC View Model Patterns
- Applications: Minesweeper approaches completion, slowly but steadily
- Silverlight Cream for October 24, 2009 -- #716
- Implementing Callback using WCF
- SharePoint 2010 – I really have nothing useful to say at this point
- Thread-safe data structures .NET 4.0 (part 1)
- Where has my graphic equalizer gone in Windows Media Player 12? (i.e. Windows 7) – AND Windows 8!
- Silverlight Cream for October 22, 2009 - 2 -- #715
- Silverlight Cream for October 21, 2009 -- #713
- How to set the windows path in Windows 7
- Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 – a first look at the UI and Web Development
- Twin Cities Code Camp 7
- Visual Studio Myths – busted wide open
- 10 DIY SharePoint Web Parts #7
- Develop your First BizTalk EDI project - Part 1
- Develop your First BizTalk EDI project - Part 2
- T4 template consuming a WCF service
- Sync Framework Common Practise of ADO.NET
- C#, ActiveObject (Runnable)
- Windows 7 – Booting from a VHD – Gotcha
- How to embed an exe inside another exe as a resource and then launch it
- Twirling smoke effect in Expression Design
- Get the index of a given item using LINQ [quick-tip]
- Display the users IP Address in a Data View Web Part
- How To: Install Bugzilla on Windows
- Open XAP files using Windows Explorer
- Ra-Ajax 2.0.3 Released
- Silverlight Cream for October 08, 2009 -- #707
- Setting log4net FileAppender.File at runtime
- MSDN Flash Podcast Show 010 – Paul Jackson on Memory Mapped Files in .NET Framework 4.0, using Oslo and learning to love the web again thanks to ASP.NET MVC
- Applications: A game unfolds..
- Why Does My System Hang? Windows Kernel Debugging For Dummies
- How to write a good code?
- MVVM Light Toolkit V2: What’s new?
- Lazy loading, Inheritance, and Persistence ignorance (part 3)
- Silverlight Cream for October 02, 2009 -- #703
- My first race win
- Silverlight for Windows Embedded tutorial
- Buzzwords in Practice…
September 2009
- Silverlight Cream for September 30, 2009 -- #701
- Intro to SVN: Trunk, Tags, and Branches
- Northern Architecture Forum
- Tuning IIS - machine.config settings
- Silverlight Cream for September 29, 2009 -- #700
- Taking your Northwind Database to SQL Azure and binding it to an ASP.NET Grid View – Part II
- Using App.config and System.Configuration
- Taking your Northwind Database to SQL Azure and binding it to an ASP.NET Grid View – Part I
- Unity Convention Based Registration
- The Backyard Mechanic
- Into the Fray
- Silverlight Cream for September 23, 2009 -- #698
- Entity Framework 4.0 Resources – documentation links, best blog posts and more
- How to pick a REALLY good security question
- Simplicity in Design
- Silverlight Cream for September 22, 2009 -- #697
- [Behaviors] How to attach behavior in code behind (Silverlight 3)
- CloseHandle(CreateThread(...));
- Silverlight Cream for September 21, 2009 -- #696
- Windows CE: Suspend, What Really Happens?
- Silverlight Cream for September 20, 2009 -- #695
- Interesting .NET Framework Statistics
- The 23 Gang of Four Design Patterns .. Revisited
- Introducing DynamicWrapper
- Improved Testability in WF4
- Developing for Surface, part I
- Silverlight Cream for September 16, 2009 -- #693
- TFS - View all pending changes for all users
- SharePoint Date Filter: Filtering a List by Greater Than or Equal to Date
- Silverlight Cream for September 14, 2009 -- #691
- Dell TouchPad | Enabling/disabling
- Size Matters: WorkItem Attachments
- Silverlight Firestarter this Thursday - Don't Forget!!
- Forms with EXT JS
- Silverlight AutoComplete ComboBox
- Silverlight Cream for September 10, 2009 -- #689
- Lazy loading, Inheritance, and Persistence ignorance (part 1.5)
- Silverlight Cream for September 09, 2009 -- #687
- Silverlight Cream for September 09, 2009 - 2 -- #688
- Adventures in System.Diagnostics
- Big Huge Objects and WCF
- Mocking, Stubs and Project NEric
- Rhino Mocks: Meaningful failure messages on expectations
- Fluent DAL Mapping
- Automating database script execution
- MVVM Light Toolkit V1.1.1: What’s new?
- Installing the MVVM Light Toolkit
- Lazy loading, Inheritance, and Persistence ignorance (part 1)
- Silverlight Cream for September 05, 2009 - 2 -- #685
- Detecting design time mode in WPF and Silverlight
- MSDN Social Bookmarks going away :(
- Silverlight Cream for September 03, 2009 - 2 -- #683
- Silverlight Cream for September 03, 2009 -- #682
- jqGrid hide columns but show when editing/adding
- Disabling the Open button in Internet Explorer
- XmlSerializer in Action or why does my application start csc.exe processes?
- WCF Proxy Close Issue
August 2009
- Silverlight Cream for August 31, 2009 -- #680
- java vs .net: the community
- Silverlight Cream for August 30, 2009 -- #679
- Silverlight Cream for August 29, 2009 -- #678
- Silverlight Cream for August 28, 2009 -- #677
- Is Software Development Hard?
- Silverlight Cream for August 27, 2009 -- #676
- Adventures in MVVM – Binding Commands to ANY Event
- Silverlight Cream for August 26, 2009 -- #675
- Why Does Crystal Reports ALWAYS kick my Axx - Part XI
- Silverlight Cream for August 25, 2009 -- #674
- Custom XSLT for TRX Test Results
- Silverlight Cream for August 24, 2009 -- #673
- Microsoft StreamInsight and BizTalk Server - Preliminary Thoughts
- MsBuild & Windows Services
- Silverlight Cream for August 22, 2009 -- #671
- Using Delegates in Rhino Mocks With the .Do Statement
- Reduce size/Shrink Transaction Log of the DB - SQL Server
- Silverlight Cream for August 20, 2009 -- #669
- IoC Containers in .NET part 6: Unity Container
- Silverlight Cream for August 18, 2009 -- #668
- IoC in .NET part4: Spring.NET
- IoC in .NET part 5: Using CastleWindsor container
- Consider Using Uri.EscapeDataString Instead of HttpServerUtility.UrlEncode
- IoC in .NET part2: StructureMap
- IoC in .NET part 1: Autofac
- Re-Installing Daemon Tools Lite (and SPTD) on Windows 7
- What’s new in ASP.NET 4.0 - Part I - View State & SEO Improvements
- Velocity CTP3 Set up for ASP.NET Session State
- Hyper-V for Developers - presentation from DevEvening 13 August 2009
- Windows 7 Desktop Gadgets
- HTML Emails with Dynamic Content made easy!
- Bind DataTable to DataList Control
- TFS Team Build 2010: Working with Custom Code Activities
- The Definition of a “Bad Design”
- Take an iMac and Windows 7 RTM – and have some fun…Blue screen fun!
- UPDATED: Adding Dynamic Rows in ASP.NET GridView Control with TextBoxes and with Delete functionality
- Silverlight Cream for August 09, 2009 -- #666
- Adding Dynamic Rows in ASP.NET GridView Control with TextBoxes and with Delete functionality
- Outlook Automation Without COM References
- Add new column/field in Oracle DB table - ora - 30649: missing Directory
- W dżungli Codeplex – użyteczne projekty (0)
- STOP: 0x0000007B (OxF8968640, 0xC0000034, 0X00000000, 0x00000000)
- Skeletons of a game, DirectDraw, Part 12
- Validate Image extensions upon Upload
- Uploading and Storing Image Path to Database and Image to Folder - Part 1
- Save Dynamic TextBox Values from GridView to Database
- Uploading and Storing Image Path to Database and Image to Folder - Part 2 (Displaying of Images)
- Silverlight Cream for August 01, 2009 -- #660
July 2009
- Combining the pieces, DirectDraw, Part 10
- ASP.NET MVC V2 Preview 1 Released – ScottGu’s Blog – Tłumaczenie
- BizTalk: Naming Conventions for BizTalk Solutions
- Draggin the marbles around, DirectDraw, Part 9
- Silverlight Cream for July 30, 2009 -- #659
- Find the NetBios Name of a domain in AD
- Silverlight Cream for July 29, 2009 -- #658
- Silverlight Cream for July 28, 2009 -- #657
- Silverlight Cream for July 27, 2009 -- #656
- Windows CE: Simple Little Registry Editor
- ASP.NET Performance – Windows Update – a great example for setting performance standards
- Silverlight Cream for July 26, 2009 -- #655
- Silverlight Cream for July 24, 2009 -- #654
- Silverlight Cream for July 22, 2009 -- #651
- Silverlight Cream for July 22, 2009 -2 -- #652
- Bouncing/Colliding marbles, DirectDraw, Part 8
- Silverlight Cream for July 21, 2009 - 2 -- #650
- Silverlight Cream for July 21, 2009 -- #649
- Posting Twitter Tweets from ASP.NET using the WCF REST Starter Kit Preview 2
- Silverlight Cream for July 20, 2009 - 2 -- #648
- Binding ADO.NET Data Service to WPF Client – Building a Master Detail Tree View
- Silverlight Cream for July 19, 2009 -- #646
- .NET Binding Redirects – Updating Referenced Assemblies Without Recompiling Code
- .NET Binding Redirects – Updating Referenced Assemblies Without Recompiling Code
- Silverlight Cream for July 18, 2009 -- #645
- ASP.NET MVC with jQuery Grid
- Monitoring routed events in WPF
- Silverlight Cream for July 16, 2009 - 2 -- #643
- Silverlight Cream for July 16, 2009 -- #642
- Bouncing/Colliding marbles, DirectDraw, Part 7
- Silverlight Cream for July 15, 2009 -- #640
- Silverlight Cream for July 15, 2009 - 2 -- #641
- Favorite Windows 7 Feature #2: Aero Peek
- Silverlight Cream for July 14, 2009 -- #639
- User Interface Patterns
- Windows Authentication in winform Application
- Useful jQuery Plug-ins
- 2009 Silverlight Control Builder Contest is live!
- Silverlight Cream for July 13, 2009 - 2 -- #638
- Silverlight Cream for July 13, 2009 -- #637
- Silverlight Cream for July 12, 2009 -- #636
- Export Canvas to PNG and save it in your local folder
- Platform Builder: Creating a CEPC Splash Screen
- Silverlight Cream for July 11, 2009 -- #635
- Silverlight Cream for July 10, 2009 -- #634
- NEric discovers Dimecasts – a great resource for none-Microsoft .NET technologies and tools
- Silverlight Cream for July 09, 2009 -- #633
- Silverlight 3 downloads
- Silverlight Cream for July 08, 2009 -- #632
- Scripting Perfmon
- MVVM via attached behaviors in Silverlight
- More fun with robots
- Silverlight Cream for July 05, 2009 -- #629
- Service Architecture Using Spring.NET
- Group By on a Look-Up Query
- Custom alert on the SQL Database
- Silverlight Cream for July 03, 2009 -- #628
- MSbuild Task FileUpdate to replace content in text files
- Silverlight Cream for July 02, 2009 -- #627
- SSAS: Creating a Rowset action with the ExecuteSQL .Net stored procedure
- Firebug Network Monitoring Quick Reference Guide
- jqGrid Dynamically loading select options
June 2009
- Silverlight Cream for June 29, 2009 -- #624
- C# 4.0 Dynamics vs. Reflection
- Silverlight Cream for June 24, 2009 -- #621
- Fill ASP.NET Table with data from DataTable.
- Silverlight Cream for June 23, 2009 -- #620
- SilverBullet #4 – System.Windows.ApplicationIdentity
- Logging is not Tracing
- Team Build 260 Character Path Limit Workaround
- Silverlight Cream for June 19, 2009 - 2 -- #618
- Silverlight Cream for June 19, 2009 -- #617
- Augmented Reality + Microsoft Surface = Sixth Sense
- Adventures in MVVM -- Ball of Mud vs MVVM
- SSAS: Executing Arbitrary SQL queries
- Silverlight Cream for June 17, 2009 -- #616
- Beware of spacing in Windows7 hosts file
- Connect Four in F# (Part 1)
- JQuery LightBox Max Height and Width
- Silverlight Cream for June 16, 2009 -- #615
- The Joel Test – Updated for 2010
- SilverBullet #3 - System.Windows.Input.FocusManager
- Silverlight Cream for June 15, 2009 -- #614
- Struct vs class and immutability
- The Validating event can prevent a form from closing properly
- IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit – ScottGu’s Blog - Tłumaczenie
- Adventures in MVVM – Slides and Demo App
- Silverlight Cream for June 11, 2009 -- #611
- Entity Framework Tips
- Extracting Album art from An Audio File
- Silverlight Cream for June 08, 2009 -- #609
- Silverlight Cream for June 04, 2009 -- #608
- Random stuff surrounding Silverlight for June 4, 2009
- Adding Dynamic Rows in GridView with TextBoxes
- Windows Mobile 6.5 Standard Review
- VSTS 2010: Enabling Test Impact Analysis
- Unknown server tag ‘asp:SearchExpression’ error with QueryExtender control in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1
- Silverlight Cream for June 03, 2009 -- #607
- TFS Team Build 2010: Executing Unit Tests
- Turning Off Data Execution Prevention (DEP)
- Ra-Ajax Version 2.0.0 Released Today
- BizTalk Server 2009 and WCF SQL Adapter
- Silverlight Cream for June 02, 2009 -- #606
- FAQ: Calculate Totals in GridView and Display it in Footer - Server side approach
May 2009
- Sending email from PHP on Windows using IIS
- Silverlight Cream for May 29, 2009 -- #604
- Silverlight Cream for May 27, 2009 - 2 -- #602
- Silverlight Cream for May 27, 2009 -- #601
- Scrum Process: Building a Backlog
- How To Read .NET Performance Counters Correctly
- Applications: Creating a simple UI application from scratch, Process Viewer, Part 3
- Managed Extensibility Framework 101 - (a)
- Stuck with Vista?
- Flex Your Pex (Part 4)
- TFS Team Build 2010: What’s New?
- BAM Archiving/BAM_DM_ observations
- Visual Studio 2010 Beta Screen Shots
- Flex Your Pex (Part 3)
- Silverlight Cream for May 19, 2009 -- #596
- Flex Your Pex (Part 2)
- Silverlight Cream for May 18, 2009 -- #595
- Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 1 Ships
- ASP.NET Sessions at Tech.Ed India 2009
- Windows 7 Learning Site Launched
- Platform Builder: Replacing Files in an NK.BIN with BinMod.exe
- Flex Your Pex (Part 1)
- Happy 2nd Birthday SilverlightCream
- Silverlight Cream for May 14, 2009 -- #593
- Error: Failed to access IIS metabase. Hosting WCF Service in IIS
- DEVPATH Is Back!
- Silverlight Cream for May 13, 2009 -- #592
- Cannon PI – Title Sequence – Microsoft Web Platform
- Windows 7 - Media Center Video Error
- Flex Your Pex!
- How to get data from Microsoft SQL Server using PHP
- Authenticated File Access using HTTP Handler.
- Geekswithblogs.net
- Developing for Mobile (2): Pocket PC/Windows CE
- My sessions at Tech Ed India
- Silverlight Cream for May 06, 2009 -- #588
- MSDN Flash Podcast Pilot Show 2 for May 6th 2009
- Working around Flash Cookie Bug in ASP.net MVC
- How To: Create a plugin architecture in VB.NET
- ASP.NET: Recursive FindControl & Extension Methods
- Silverlight Cream for May 05, 2009 -- #586
- Silverlight Cream for May 05, 2009 - 2 -- #587
- IIS System.Web.AspNetHostingPermission exception on Windows 7 RC
- Silverlight Cream for May 03, 2009 -- #585
April 2009
- Concurrent Convoys with Time Outs
- Windows 7 Release Candidate
- Dynamic Query with Entity Framework
- Compress Image files using C#
- What developers should be doing in readiness for Windows 7
- Silverlight Cream for April 27, 2009 -- #581
- Applications: Adding Image to your application
- Validar un CUIT/CUIL con C#, Javascript y JQuery.Validate
- Disable Special Keys in Win App C#
- Introducing Html Utilities for Silverlight
- Applications: Creating a simple UI application for Windows Mobile 6 using Visual Studio 2005: Part 3
- FAQ: Displaying Image from Database to GridView Control
- How to use .Net assemblies in PHP
- Uploading and Storing Images to Database in ASP.NET
- Setting up WCF to Impersonate Client credentials
- Debugging XMAL Parser Exceptions
- WCF and LINQ to SQL (Part 4 – Updates)
- Silverlight Cream for April 21, 2009 -- #576
- Silverlight Cream for April 20, 2009 -- #575
- FREE MSDN Flash eBook with 13 technical articles spanning dynamic languages to game development to cloud computing
- F# Basics – Infix Operators
- Silverlight Cream for April 16, 2009 -- #572
- Applications: Creating a simple UI application for Windows Mobile 6 using Visual Studio 2005: Part 2
- MSDN Events Presents: The Best Of MIX
- Silverlight Cream for April 15, 2009 -- #571
- Making Logging Cheaper with Lambda Expressions
- Applications: Creating a simple UI application for Windows Mobile 6 using Visual Studio 2005: Part 1
- Silverlight Cream for April 14, 2009 -- #570
- Silverlight Cream for April 12, 2009 -- #569
- Aggregator Provider Pattern: An Extension of Provider Pattern
- Silverlight Cream for April 09, 2009 -- #567
- WCF Services hosted in Azure – more samples just released….
- PowerShell: List all the senders from an Outlook folder
- Regina Events
- Silverlight Cream for April 07, 2009 -- #565
- Where’s my Data?
- Silverlight Cream for April 06, 2009 -- #564
- A simple 3-tier layers application in ASP.NET
- Using a Behavior to magnify your WPF applications
- Convert a BitArray to byte[] in C#
- Silverlight Cream for April 04, 2009 -- #563
- MSDN Library Low Bandwidth Option
- Creating, Binding and Styling a Bubble Chart
March 2009
- Database Versioning and Documentation Tool for Microsoft SQL Server
- Silverlight Cream for March 30, 2009 -- #557
- PowerShell: sync system time with Internet time server
- Orlando Code Camp Talk
- Silverlight Cream for March 28, 2009 -- #555
- Grommet: Linq, HTTP/1.1 and more for .NET Micro Framework
- Entity Framework v1 and v2
- GMail.com and IE 8 – Does anyone else have this problem
- Running Tarantino With MSBuild
- Importing Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator files in Expression Blend
- The Tarantino Project - Database Change Management
- Visual Studio Tip: Navigate to File by Typing File Name
- Finally an x64 Cisco VPN client
- Dynamically Adding TextBox Control to ASPNET Table
- A Glass Orb Button in Silverlight
- Enterprise Library Validation Application Block with MVC Binders
- MIX09 Minus 1
- Silverlight Cream for March 15, 2009 -- #541
- Binding to Resources in Silverlight/WPF
- WPF WYSIWYG HTML Editor
- Silverlight Cream for March 12, 2009 -- #539
- TechEd 2009 Attendee Party Cancelled
- Tip/Trick: Show Header and Footer of GridView when no Data returned.
- Hacking the Assembly Manifest
- Why I love Xbox 360 and why I hate when we talk about X360 in Poland…
- Emulating multi-touch device for Windows 7
- How to fade image layers using Gimp gradient/blend tool
- Debugging Attributes
- Evolutility – CRUD UI dla ASP.net
- Dispose and Finalize methods
- Implementing Dependency Replication with TFS Team Build
- Mapping Stored Procedure Parameters in SSIS OLE DB Source Editor
- I'm a PC and I'm a MVP -- 2009 MVP Summit WrapUp and Thanks!
- Oslo based solution for deploying BizTalk applications
- Test and Sample Data
- SQL Server 2008 installation keeps asking for a computer restart before beginning
- Entity Framework : At first glance the LINQ to SQL team didn’t transition fast enough!
- Dynamic log fileNames with log4net
- Tips on using log4net RollingFileAppender
- Silverlight Cream for March 02, 2009 -- #532
- Consuming WCF Service using BizTalk WCF Adapter
February 2009
- Windows 7 “beta” Over
- Alt.NET Seattle -- Subversive Agile
- Silverlight Cream for February 26, 2009 -- #529
- My analysis of the recent Visual Basic Survey + an extra graph :-)
- Change your default favicon in DotNetNuke
- 4th Orlando Code Camp coming up
- Silverlight Cream for February 25, 2009 -- #528
- Einstein Puzzle in Microsoft Solver Foundation
- Search ListBox items using JavaScript
- Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2
- Constraint Satisfaction and Rete
- Adding Default Select Option in the DropDownList
- Writing a Code Coverage Checkin Policy
- GridView Multiple Delete with CheckBox and Confirm
- MOSS Solutions and Features in Deployments ( Part 3 )
- Binding GridView with Data - The ADO.NET way
- Silverlight Cream for February 18, 2009 -- #521
- Results of the Visual Basic Survey: Part 2 Visual Basic 6.0 Usage Today
- Understanding VSTS Load Test Counters: Requests, Pages and Tests
- Simulating IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem in Silverlight (part 2)
- Results of the Visual Basic Survey: Part 1 Language and Framework Usage
- Forcing MSI Installation Into a Specific Directory
- Results of the Visual Basic Survey: Part 3 Move from Visual Basic 6.0 to .NET
- MS Dynamics 2009 Analysis Extension Problem on SQL Server 2008 - A WorkAround
- Silverlight Cream for February 16, 2009 -- #519
- Step Aside Kindle – Hello Sony eReader!
- Visual Studio 2008 Debugging – The Watch Window
- Visual Studio 2008 Debugging – Advanced Tricks
- You had me from WPF/E 001 - Intro/Install
- Silverlight Cream for February 13, 2009 -- #516
- Windows CE: Guide to Setting Thread Priorities
- ASP.NET ListView: Displaying Hierarchical Data
- Silverlight Cream for February 12, 2009 -- #515
- Backwards Engineering
- DotNetNuke 5 Book is shipped
- Whatever happened to .NET ORM tool X?
- ASP.NET Dynamic Data Wizard Preview – My Virtual TechDays Video
- Webcast Session: Best Practices for web development using ASP.NET
- Silverlight Cream for February 11, 2009 -- #514
- Very useful windows run commands
- ASP.NET tips: Display resultset from Multiple DataTable
- Silverlight Cream for February 10, 2009 -- #513
- Hosting a WF 4.0 workflow service in “Dublin”
- Silverlight Cream for February 09, 2009 -- #512
- An Intro to Barrier
- Silverlight Cream for February 07, 2009 -- #510
- Silverlight Cream for February 06, 2009 -- #509
- VirtualBox - 64 bit guests on 32 bit hosts - still need hardware virtualisation
- C# 4.0 Optional Parameters
- Defining the build set
- Windows 7 Product Lines Announced
- Silverlight Cream for February 02, 2009 -- #505
- Requirements Patterns and Antipatterns: Checklists
January 2009
- Adding custom assertions to MSTest
- Migrating from NUnit to MSTest
- CSS Table Scrolling with Fixed Header for IE 7
- Enabling Wireless Network in Windows Server 2008
- Debugging SOAP messages with WireShark
- ASP.NET: Downloading a DataTable in CSV Format
- Turning an Asynchronous call into a Synchronous call
- MDX equivalent of a filtered GROUP BY in SQL
- Silverlight Cream for January 27, 2009 - 2 -- #499
- Silverlight Cream for January 27, 2009 -- #498
- Validation Application Block – Unit Test Validation Logic
- Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2009 - 4 -- #495
- Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2009 -- #492
- C# 4.0 Named Parameters for better code quality
- Five hours of webcasts on Windows Azure
- Windows CE: Threads
- Updated: ASP.NET TreeView CheckBoxes – Check All – JavaScript
- LINQ Overview Concept Map
- Concept map of rough edges in ADO.NET 3.5 SP1
- Microsoft Web Platform Installer v1.0
- Shrinking code for the Mix09 10k challenge
- Microsoft JScript runtime error: RSClientController is undefined
- WIX Variables
- Named Format Strings
- Elegant way to raise an event
- The security benefit of using presentation models
- Silverlight Cream for January 18, 2009 -- #490
- Developing Custom RouteHandler
- Silverlight Cream for January 17, 2009 - 2 -- #489
- Silverlight Cream for January 17, 2009 -- #488
- Unit Testing and Expected Exceptions
- Running the ASP.NET Windows Live Web site in IIS7, Could not load file or assembly 'System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.6.0.0,” Error
- IE8 on Windows 7
- Silverlight Cream for January 13, 2009 - 2 -- #485
- Silverlight Cream for January 13, 2009 -- #484
- Specify Expect100Continue=false in Web Service client.
- Silverlight Cream for January 12, 2009 -- #483
- Dynamic Attributes in C#
- Silverlight Cream for January 09, 2009 -- #480
- Getting Windows 7 up and Running in VPC 2007
- XML Comments: filterpriority
- ASP.NET MVC Beta 1 – Error handler example
- Audio CD operation including CD-Text reading in pure C#
- 'WebForm_PostBackOptions' is undefined error, ASP.NET 2.0
- Silverlight Cream for January 06, 2009 -- #477
- Windows CE: Preventing Multiple Instances of an Application
- Silverlight Cream for January 05, 2009 -- #476
- join in SQL update statement
- Quick Access Toolbar and roaming profiles
- Surprising things your colleagues may not know (C# .NET Generic Constraints)
- Geocoding pictures automatically with Nokia E71 and gpicsync
- How to migrate from CS2007 to WordPress, Movable Type (or any other blog engine, supports XML-RPC) with C#
2008 509
December 2008
- Silverlight Cream for December 31, 2008 -- #473
- FBA Editor V1
- Silverlight Cream for December 30, 2008 - 2 -- #472
- Silverlight Cream for December 30, 2008 -- #471
- A Developers Guide to Storage. What you need to know but were afraid to ask.
- The DevHuddle
- ASP.NET Performance Tips
- Silverlight Cream for December 29, 2008 -- #470
- Setup DynDNS Dynamic DNS on a Linksys WRT54G Router - Part 2
- Silverlight Cream for December 28, 2008 -- #469
- Setup DynDNS Dynamic DNS on a Linksys WRT54G Router - Part 1
- Silverlight Cream for December 24, 2008 -- #466
- Understanding: Dependency Properties in Silverlight
- Everything you wanted to know about FBWF but were afraid to ask? Including how it might be made to work on XP Pro.....
- .... any suggestions for learning [SIlverlight]?
- Silverlight Cream for December 23, 2008 -- #465
- Silverlight Cream for December 22, 2008 -- #464
- Silverlight Cream for December 21, 2008 -- #463
- Silverlight Cream for December 20, 2008 -- #462
- Silverlight Cream for December 19, 2008 -- #461
- Silverlight Cream for December 18, 2008 - 2 -- #460
- Silverlight Cream for December 18, 2008 -- #459
- How do I view/see the PATH in a windows environment?
- NINE Questions with Scott Hanselman
- Silverlight Cream for December 16, 2008 - 2 -- #458
- Silverlight Cream for December 16, 2008 -- #457
- Measure Performance With Stopwatch
- How to make a "protected" method available for "partial" mocking using RhinoMocks
- Biztalk Pipeline and File System Transaction (TxF)
- Silverlight Cream for December 15, 2008 -- #456
- Video NINE Questions with Jennifer Marsman
- Microsoft Answer for the end-user
- Silverlight Cream for December 14, 2008 - 2 -- #455
- Silverlight Cream for December 14, 2008 -- #454
- The Real Reason to Use IoC/DI (Inversion of Control/Dependency Injection) and a Container Like Windsor
- Windows CE: Automatically Start Application with Command Line Parameters
- BizTalk Testing Series – Testing Pipelines and Pipeline Components in BizTalk 2009
- Video NINE Questions with Jason Mauer at PDC08
- Making a custom setup dialog using WiX 3.0
- Windows CE: Stream Interface Driver Registry Settings
- Who Scraped Over My Disk?
- IIS Request Processing
- Silverlight Cream for December 07, 2008 -- #447
- Silverlight Cream for December 02, 2008 -- #444
- ANTLR for C# Part 1: Installation
- SSAS: Are my Aggregations processed?
- Silverlight Cream for December 01, 2008 -- #443
- Try/Catch Performance
- Hunting those elusive Public Folders using Exchange Web Services (Part 1)
- Charting in ASP.NET, ASP.NET Chart Controls for .NET 3.5 SP1
November 2008
- Silverlight on Windows Update (Windows 7)
- Do not pass data between static methods using static data members.
- Silverlight Cream for November 29, 2008 -- #442
- Solving memory leak in javascript with try-finally
- Silverlight Cream for November 28, 2008 - 2 -- #441
- Windows CE: Enumerating User Notifications
- Silverlight Cream for November 27, 2008 -- #439
- C# quiz - try-finally
- Silverlight Cream for November 26, 2008 -- #438
- Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy review
- Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR Installation
- Code Metrics - suggestions for appropriate limits
- My first FitNesse test
- Think gaming is all about fun?
- Chat with Beth Massi at PDC08
- Silverlight Cream for November 23, 2008 -- #436
- Basic Linq in the Real World
- Silverlight Cream for November 20, 2008 -- #433
- Executing PowerShell commands from iPhone and Linux?
- Silverlight Cream for November 18, 2008 -- #431
- My eye friendly Visual Studio dark theme
- Silverlight Cream for November 17, 2008 -- #430
- Displaying Rich-Formatted Text in WPF
- Process is a Lie
- The Echo Effect
- Silverlight Cream for November 13, 2008 -- #427
- Silverlight Cream for November 12, 2008 -- #426
- Silverlight Cream for November 11, 2008 - 2 -- #425
- Silverlight Cream for November 11, 2008 -- #424
- How to use multiple versions of assembly
- Writing Tests to Catch Memory Leaks in .NET
- Hiding generated code from Code Analysis, Metrics and Test Coverage
- CLR 4.0: In Process Side-by-Side CLR Hosting
- Creating a user with Wix
- XSLT Debugging with .NET
- CLR 4.0: Managed Languages
- DevConnections - Las Vegas
- Getting BrightKite friends using C# and LINQ
- Silverlight Cream for November 09, 2008 -- #423
- Get email addressees of all users from all mails in Outlook Folder
- Code better – measure your code with NDepend
- Silverlight Cream for November 07, 2008 -- #422
- CLR 4.0: Garbage Collection Changes
- Video NINE Questions with Richard Campbell
- CLR 4.0: Code Contracts
- Silverlight Cream for November 06, 2008 -- #421
- Some thoughts on Oslo...
- Reporting Services (SSRS) - Get data value into page header/footer
- Thead Pooling
- Difference between Netmodule and Assembly file
- Silverlight Cream for November 05, 2008 -- #420
- Silverlight Cream for November 03, 2008 -- #418
- Handling subsystem branching
- Oslo : First Impressions
October 2008
- Conditional compilation in C#
- Developing Custom Controls in Silverlight 2
- Silverlight Cream for October 29, 2008 - 3 -- #413
- Enable Back button support in ASP.NET AJAX web sites
- Calculating Running Totals in SQL Server 2005, The optimal solution?
- New Silverlight controls suite delivered by Microsoft #PDC08
- Letter from Steve Ballmer, CEO Microsoft
- Excel cell contents not visible - but show in formula bar and print preview
- Learning WPF With BabySmash: Redux
- Silverlight Cream for October 24, 2008 -- #405
- Silverlight Cream for October 22, 2008 -- #404
- NINE Questions with Kirstin Juhl
- Covariance and Contravariance in delegates
- Using Reflection To Extract Values From a Static Class
- Working with Opacity Masks
- Silverlight Cream for October 21, 2008 -- #403
- More XAML Gradients
- Silverlight Cream for October 20, 2008 - 2 -- #402
- NINE Questions with Rob Windsor
- Silverlight Cream for October 19, 2008 -- #400
- Silverlight Cream for October 18, 2008 -- #399
- MOSS Solutions and Features in Deployments ( Part 1 )
- Silverlight Cream for October 17, 2008 -- #398
- WPF RadioButtons and data binding
- Silverlight Cream for October 16, 2008 -- #397
- Dublin and BizTalk Server - What's the difference?
- Silverlight Cream for October 13, 2008 -- #395
- More Cool Tricks with Live Mesh
- Using Microsoft.BizTalk.ExplorerOM
- Showing repeating decimals in Word
- Converting and customizing XAML to PNG with server-side WPF
- Should we go for Windows Vista, or not? [Pros and Cons]
- Printing a PDF File to a (Network) Printer With C#
- Setting ASP.NET Webform Tag’s Action Attribute
- Silverlight Cream for October 07, 2008 -- #390
- How To Search Encrypted Text in SQL Server 2005/2008
- Silverlight Cream for October 05, 2008 -- #388
- TryParse Extension Methods
- Comparison between Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008
- Use WCF Message Logging
- How many projects should be in a Visual Studio solution?
- Silverlight Cream for October 02, 2008 -- #386
- BizTalk Server 2009 – What’s new
- Silverlight Cream for October 01, 2008 - 2 -- #385
- Silverlight Cream for October 01, 2008 -- #384
- InternalsVisibleTo with Strongly-Type Assemblies
September 2008
- Oren Eini is coming to Bristol
- Silverlight Cream for September 29, 2008 -- #382
- Microsoft to add jQuery in Visual Studio: Why I think it's great
- Silverlight Cream for September 28, 2008 -- #381
- Silverlight Cream for September 26, 2008 - 2 -- #379
- Silverlight Cream for September 26, 2008 -- #378
- SharePoint Workflow Activities - What are they?
- Silverlight Cream for September 25, 2008 - 2 -- #377
- Silverlight Cream for September 25, 2008 -- #376
- Silverlight Cream for September 23, 2008 -- #375
- GPS - Tracking of BIAL (Bangalore International Airport) Buses
- SharpZipLib Versus 7-Zip for Large File Sets
- Silverlight Cream for September 19, 2008 -- #373
- Silverlight Cream for September 18, 2008 -- #372
- Silverlight Cream for September 17, 2008 -- #370
- Get return value from stored procedure
- Introduction to ADO .Net Sync Services
- NINE Questions with Jason Bock
- Silverlight Cream for September 15, 2008 -- #368
- .NET Memory Management – Resources
- Big Problem Solved - No More TypeLibBuilder.exe Crashes!
- Replacing Notepad With Notepad2 on Windows XP SP3
- Silverlight Cream for September 12, 2008 -- #367
- C# Events and Delegates in 3 seconds
- NINE Questions with Liza Kindred
- Debug into .Net Framework Source Code
- Enums and NHibernate: Taking the logic out of the view
- NINE Questions with Chris Sutton
- How to get a CheckBox in a Winforms DataGridView to react to the first click
- Silverlight Cream for September 04, 2008 -- #361
- Visual Studio 2008 Multi-Targeting, .NET 3.5 after installing SP1
- Give your thread the highest priority using C#
- Delete / Remove TFS Work Item Type
August 2008
- Silverlight Cream for August 31, 2008 -- #359
- Silverlight Cream for August 28, 2008 -- #358
- Visual Studio Optimizations
- Silverlight Cream for August 27, 2008 -- #357
- Why it is time to retire the old cast operator in C#: MyType t= (MyType)o
- Silverlight Cream for August 26, 2008 -- #356
- Applied Generics : Vector class
- Why Does Crystal Reports ALWAYS kick my Axx - Part IX -- WAY too many pages
- Refresh / Update WPF controls
- Silverlight Cream for August 23, 2008 -- #354
- Silverlight Cream for August 21, 2008 -- #353
- Windows CE: Running Batch Files
- NINE Questions with Rachel Reese
- Silvelright Cream for August 20, 2008 -- #352
- Continuous Integration Enhancement : The Broken Build Token!
- Silverlight Cream for August 19, 2008 -- #351
- Silverlight Cream for August 17, 2008 -- #349
- NINE Questions with Chris Williams
- Silverlight Cream for August 14, 2008 -- #347
- Installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1 RTM and removing the SP1 Beta
- Silverlight Cream for August 13, 2008 - 2 -- #346
- Silverlight Cream for August 13, 2008 -- #345
- Silverlight Cream for August 12, 2008 -- #344
- CodeStock debrief
- SQL 2008 + TFS 2008 SP1 the lowdown…
- NetCmdlets Invoke-Telnet?! And other PowerShell madness.
- Silverlight Cream for August 10, 2008 -- #343
- Silverlight Cream for August 09, 2008 - 2 -- #342
- Silverlight Cream for August 09, 2008 -- #341
- Speedy C#, Part 2: Optimizing Memory Allocations - Pooling and Reusing Objects
- I will be delivering my first public-facing Oslo presentation Oct 8th in Amsterdam at the SOA Symposium
- How to make text box autoscroll
- How to configure maxJsonLength in ASP.NET AJAX applications
- Speedy C#, Part 1: Optimizing Long if-else or switch Branches
- My weekend in Dubai
- Silverlight Cream for August 1, 2008 -- #340
July 2008
- NINE Questions with Randy Walker
- Flattening WSDL from WCF Services
- Missing Dynamic Data Templates - VS 2008 SP1 and .NET 3.5 SP1
- SPGridView for FBA with Context Menu's, Paging, Sorting, and Searching
- How To: Spell Check an InfoPath form displayed via XmlFormView.
- Microsoft Technologies in Financial Domain - SWIFT
- Silverlight Cream for July 26, 2008 -- #335
- MDX ratio of "current parent" issue
- An MSBuild task to execute T4 templates
- Silverlight Cream for July 24, 2008 -- #333
- C# Reflection Tips: Data transformation using Reflection
- Caligari trueSpace 7.6 for FREE?!?
- Generate C# class from XSD file.
- SharePoint gradual upgrade disabled when using a SQL instance named SharePoint
- Silverlight Cream for July 20, 2008 -- #329
- PDC for Novices, 2008 Edition
- 7/23 - SOA Briefing in Chicagoland
- Visual Studio 2008 and TargetFrameworkVersion
- Silverlight Cream for July 16, 2008 -- #326
- RV.NUG Presentation - Unit Testing a Buggy Starter Kit
- The Open Groups SOA Ontology
- Silverlight Cream for July 15, 2008 -- #325
- Hire me…
- Silverlight Cream for July 14, 2008 -- #324
- Technical Software Project Management is Dead
- WSS 3.0 / MOSS 2007 .. Troubleshoot Unexpected error ...
- Silverlight Cream for July 11, 2008 -- #322
- Silverlight Cream for July 11, 2008 -- #323
- NINE Questions with Rachel Appel
- Silverlight Cream for July 09, 2008 -- #321
- Silverlight Cream for July 8, 2008 -- #320
- More Speculations on Google PageRank: Favors Wikipedia
- Silverlight Cream for July 07, 2008 -- #319
- Silverlight Cream for July 6, 2008 -- #318
- Adventures with Live Mesh (CTP)
- Execute Transact-SQL statement asynchronously
- Silverlight Cream for July 04, 2008 -- #317
- What is “Defensive Programming”?
- Platform Builder: Clone Public Code
- Sliverlight Cream for July 1, 2008 -- #315
June 2008
- Silverlight Cream for June 30, 2008 -- #314
- Equivalent svcutil.exe command for VS2008 Add Service Reference
- Silverlight Cream for June 29, 2008 -- #313
- Silverlight Cream for June 28, 2008 -- #312
- MVC JSON - JsonResult and jQuery
- Faster Reflection using Expression Trees
- ReSharper Tip of the Day: Find Dependent Code
- Silverlight Cream for June 26, 2008 -- #310
- Generating Deterministic GUIDs
- MS Access and TFS?
- ASP.NET tips: Golden rules for Dynamic Controls.
- Silverlight Cream for June 25, 2008 -- #309
- Silverlight Cream for June 24, 2008 -- #308
- Agile Boot Camp Rawked!
- Claiming my blog on Technorati
- Dispose of a WPF UserControl (ish)
- Subversion 1.5.0 Released
- Microsoft SharedView
- Silverlight Cream for June 20, 2008 -- #305
- RoundedButton Button Style (WPF)
- Silverlight Cream for June 19, 2008 -- #303
- Silverlight Cream for June 18, 2008 - 2 -- #302
- Oracle Update with Join
- Platform Builder: Using Dat Files to Initialize the File System
- Platform Builder: Using Bib Files to add files to a Windows CE OS Image
- Microsoft Certification Exam Voucher Giveaway
- The origin of the names "IronPython" and "IronRuby"
- BAM Quickstart
- Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2008 and Authenticated SMTP - A Travesty
- Lambdas - Know Your Closures
- My Battle with the Quick Launch Accordion Slider Control
- Develop for Maintenance
- Custom Visual Studio Visualizer
- UTC DateTime format and BizTalk
- Windows CE: Serial Debug Menu Summary
- Silverlight Cream for June 09, 2008 -- #295
- Mac OS X Snow Leopard
- A new Logo for SQL Server
- Silverlight Cream for June 06, 2008 -- # 292
- Silverlight Cream for June 05, 2008 -- #291
- Control does not implement IPageableItemContainer Error
- Override ASP.NET Menu javascript functions to delay dynamic menus popup.
- Silverlight Cream for June 3, 2008 - Updated -- #289
- Using Interfaces - Design by Contract
- Very Large SharePoint Database Files
- Platform Builder: Find the Source of a Data Abort; an Example
- Silverlight Cream for June 1, 2008 -- #288
May 2008
- May 31st: Posts I liked
- Silverlight Cream for May 30, 2008 -- #287
- Find all Triggers and their Text with T-SQL
- Silverlight Rectangles, Paths, and Lines
- Silverlight Cream for May 27, 2008 -- #285
- Silverlight Cream for May 26, 2008 - 2 -- #284
- Silverlight Cream for May 26, 2008 -- # 283
- Where do I store my custom configuration for a BizTalk solution
- Twitter Features that Should Exist for Enterprise Social Networking
- Clean Up WCF Clients : The Right Way
- Silverlight Cream for May 22, 2008 -- #280
- Silverlight Cream for May 21, 2008 -- #279
- How to Generate URLs with ASP.NET MVC
- Visual Studio 2008 System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException
- Error Cannot complete action when restoring a sharepoint site - possible cause : Orphaned site
- WPF - CollectionViewSource that updates automatically
- Silverlight Cream for May 19, 2008 -- #277
- Windows CE: Finding the cause of a Data Abort
- Forms Authentication with Active Directory in ASP.NET 2.0
- Silverlight Cream for May 16, 2008 -- #276
- Implementing scheduling requirements in BizTalk solutions
- Adding Collision Detection
- FXP - FTP transfers from server to server
- Windows CE: Using ToolHelpAPI to list running processes
- May 15th: Posts I liked
- Silverlight Cream for May 13, 2008 -- #274
- Silverlight Cream for May 12, 2008 - 2 -- # 273
- "Pimp My IDE": 101 Visual Studio tips, tricks, and add-ins
- SlickEdit 2008 Second Glance
- SlickEdit 2008 at first Glance
- ESB Guidance Webcast next Friday (May 9th 2008)
- Silverlight Cream for May 09, 2008 -- #271
- Test First? Or is that new legacy code you just checked in?
- How to use the Moq mocking library
- BareTail - Log File Monitoring Tool
- Why Does Crystal Reports ALWAYS kick my Axx - Part VII -- Merge Modules/GAC
- Silverlight Cream for May 07, 2008 -- #269
- Where are all the Sysadmins?
- Silverlight Cream for May 06, 2008 -- #268
- A hodgepodge of DotNetNuke Topics
- Silverlight Cream for May 03, 2008 - 2 -- #266
- Silverlight Cream for May 3, 2008 -- #265
- A quick walk-through of CLR Integration with SQL Server
- Silverlight Cream for May 2, 2008 -- #264
- Keeping Up with Silverlight
- Silverlight Cream for May 01, 2008 -- #263
- May 1st: Posts I liked
April 2008
- Silverlight Cream for April 30, 2008 - #262
- Error | EventType clr20r3
- Using Corrina Barber's Silverlight 2 Control Skins
- The Benefits of Test-Driven Development
- Silverlight Cream for April 29, 2008 -- #261
- What tech book are you reading right now?
- Let me sleep on it...
- New Dynamic Data Preview 04/23 Refresh
- Understanding Mock Objects
- Moving SharePoint Database Data Files
- Silverlight Cream for April 26, 2008 -- #260
- Silverlight Cream for April 25, 2008 -- #259
- Enabling ASP.NET 3.5 in Umbraco
- Silverlight Cream for April 24, 2008 -- #258
- First Impressions of Live Mesh
- Gerson Lehrman Group
- Silverlight Cream for April 23, 2008 -- #257
- Itinerary Processing – Messaging (2)
- Using Database Repository Pattern with ActiveRecord with ActiveRecordMediator
- Silverlight Cream for April 22, 2008 -- #256
- WPF Custom Control Dependency Property Gotcha
- Object reference not set to an instance - Webpart Sharepoint
- What is Agile Software?
- Silverlight Cream for April 21, 2008 -- #255
- Why Does Crystal Reports ALWAYS kick my Axx - Part VI -- Load Report Failed
- Creating Better FindControl Method
- The tricky Slider extender
- Silverlight Cream for April 16, 2008 - #252
- NTEXT vs NVARCHAR(MAX) in SQL 2005
- How to create permissions on sharepoint views
- Microsoft Word - cursor placed at top of page.
- Oslo, the journey continues....
- Silverlight Cream for April 14, 2008 # 251
- Showing ESRI Shapefile Layers on a Virtual Earth Map: a simple HowTo
- Silverlight Cream for April 11, 2008 -- #250
- De WPF Integratio (About WPF Integration)
- Silverlight Cream for April 10, 2008 -- #249
- Silverlight Cream for April 9, 2008 - #247
- Silverlight Cream for April 9, 2008 -- #248
- Licensing Team Foundation Server 2008
- Silverlight Cream for April 7, 2008 -- #246
- LEFT JOINS and DefaultIfEmpty Operator in LINQ
- Implement events through interface in C#
- Silverlight Cream for April 6, 2008 -- #245
- Formatting Numbers in Javascript
- Silverlight Cream for April 4, 2008 -- #244
- Using Perforce with CruiseControl.Net
- Silverlight Cream for April 3, 2008 -- #243
- BizTalk: SQL Send port: How to pass and process unbounded nodes to the SQL stored procedure
- Localizing a WPF Application with ResX Files
- Silverlight Cream for April 2, 2008 -- #242
- String.Replace() in XSLT
- File Upload in UpdatePanel, ASP.NET AJAX
- Mobile Web Forms in Visual Studio 2008
March 2008
- Silverlight Cream for March 31, 2008 -- #241
- Software Developement as a Craft - 'The Craftsman' by Richard Sennett
- Silverlight Cream for March 30, 2008 -- #240
- BizTalk Testing Series - Testing Pipeline Components
- XML Literals and Embedded Expressions
- LINQ to SQL DataLoadOptions
- Silverlight Cream for March 28, 2008 -- #239
- SharePoint List WebService to Insert Item
- Silverlight Cream for March 26, 2008 -- #237
- IoC and Unity - The Basics and InterceptionIoC and Unity - The Basics and Interception
- Silverlight Cream for March 25, 2008 -- #234
- Silverlight 2.0 application with MultiScaleImage control and Deep Zoom Composer.
- Want to Write Great Business Software? Create a Great Domain Model!
- Deferred Execution in LINQ
- ASP.NET Basics: Foundation of ASP.NET
- Strategy Pattern
- Red, Green, Refactor
- Twitter is Twitterific! A List of All the Twitter tools.
- Automate passing valuable information in WCF headers
- NameValueCollection and .NET Configuration Files
- Sharepoint Lists.asmx UpdateListItems: Root Folder
- Internet Explorer HIDDEN Cache
- Silverlight Cream for March 13, 2008 -2 -- #221
- ASP.NET AJAX callbacks to Web Methods in ASPX pages
- Visual Studio 2008 Plug Ins
- Managing your Mind. Mindmaps, a handy tool for the Enterprise Architect.
- ADO.NET Entity Framework and Data Services in action (Part 2: Creating ADO.NET Data Services)
- Refactoring to Comply with the DRY principle (Don't Repeat Yourself)
- XNADevelopment.com - Getting Started with XNA development (2.0)
- SSIS Business Rules Engine
- .NET Framework Libraries in Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1
- Remove empty lines in text using Visual Studio.
- Generic Conversion for DBNull and Nullable types
February 2008
- Refactor: Visual Studio Extract Interface
- Sending Email On Behalf Of
- Virtual PC on two monitors without additional software
- IoC and the Unity Application Block Once Again
- SOA Governance - Interesting Article
- Tech·Ed for Novices, 2008 Edition
- ASP.NET MVC Controller And Action Role Authentication
- Using JQuery to Add Drag and Drop Support
- Solving DNN deployment issues, Redirecting to localhost and Running DNN in a different port
- Debugging Attributes
- Application Architecture, Software Development Frameworks, ORM, MVC/P and the Holy Grail - Part 1
- SkyDive the beach - freefall from 12,000feet over the surf in Wollongong!
- "New" Statement Considered Harmful
- Moving your Log4Net configuration out of web.config with ASP.NET 2.0 web sites.
- WCF metadata error: cannot import wsdl:binding
- Declare different CSS rules for Firefox and Internet Explorer 7
- How low can you go?
- The type or namespace name 'Pkcs' does not exist in the namespace 'System.Security.Cryptography'
- Converting a System.Data.Linq.Binary (or timestamp) to a string and back again to avoid LINQ concurrency issues
- F# Solution : Project Euler Problems 1-3
- What's Important at Code Camp?
- Hyper-V on Win2008 RTM - VMM service fails to start? You must install 2008 using 'English (United States)'
- VS 2008 - I want my prop snippet back!
- Unique Data Columns in SQL Server 2005: A Quick Look
- Disposing CollectionView (Detaching your data and the CollectionView)
- Windows 2008 + TFS 2008 it works but...
- LINQ to SQL - Implementing the Repository pattern
- Creating Chart with Aspnet ReportViewer control
- Consuming a WCF service
- Looking at .NET: The Disposable Pattern
January 2008
- .NET WinPCap
- The Road to Oslo
- Geekswithblogs.net
- Running Visual Studio 2005 on IIS7, Windows Vista
- OneNote Resources
- Url Rewriting Using ASP.NET MVC Framework
- Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC Framework
- LINQ Overview, part two (Lambda Expressions)
- Creating a SharePoint Solution Package (.wsp) in 5 steps
- Hirschberg Global Alignment in C# .NET 2.0
- WCF Latency Test Harness and WCF Performance
- FTP error 425, "Can't open data connection."
- Bandwidth costs and time for Sneakernet
- Aspect Oriented Programming with .NET with Windsor
- Dear Blizzard, Please Fix Warcraft's Patcher
- Zune Playlists Easy to Create?
- Finding and killing SSAS Sessions
- Design by Contract and C# (without Spec#)
- We Are Microsoft | Texas Discovery Gardens
- Dropping a User's Default Database in SQL Server 2005
- HowTo: Set up your project for Window's Workflow (C# style)
- My Adventures in F#
- F# Solution : Project Euler Problem 25
- Geekswithblogs.net
- DC ALT.NET Meeting January Wrapup
- Have worker thread update ObservableCollection that is bound to a ListCollectionView
- How to Serialize an Interface using the XMLSerializer
- Binding to an Attached Property
- VPC to VMWare Mouse Problems
- C# - vNext
- "SqlDateTime overflow. Must be between 1/1/1753 12:00:00 AM and 12/31/9999 11:59:59 PM."
- Network Solutions is a bunch of thieving bastards
- Object Mother Pattern versus Test Data Builder Pattern
- Fixing WCF/WPF VS 2005 Extensions installation after installing VS 2008 or .NET 3.0 SP1
- .NET 3.5, Design by contract and Spec# Wrapup
- Using Http PUT method for file upload
- Firefox and "inline-block" support
- Testing ASP.NET Application Using Watir And Ruby
- Community-Credit | I won the Butt/Face Soap!
2007 264
December 2007
- Disappearing System Tray Icons on Windows Vista
- Linq - Handle Insert/Update/Delete of child entity in tiered application
- Real Life Examples of Agile Development
- Be mindful of your DataContext's "context"
- [Download] MemAnalysis - Native memory leak analysis tool
- Linq - Attach an entity that is not new, perhaps having been loaded from another DataContext.
- C# 3.0 - Partial Methods
- MSBuildContrib Updates
- Volatile Registry Keys
- Note to Self: KB941600 is Pure USB Evil!!!
- Using Extension Methods in .NET 2.0 with Visual Studio 2008
- Linq Table Attach() based on timestamp or row version
- RV.NUG and RVSPUG Events
- Ajax and .NET Developers
- Linq Table Attach()
- Photo | Amazing Jet Contrail
- Integrating Windows Live Authentication in your application
- Different ways of Validating ASP.NET Forms
- Passing Data to Master Pages with ASP.NET MVC
- How to run CGI applications on IIS7
- CoolCommands in Visual Studio 2008
- Google Chart API Truly Awesome!!!!!
- Visual Studio 2008 Will NOT Support SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services projects (until you install SQL Server 2008)
- WCF maxStringContentLength, maxBufferSize, and MaxReceivedMessageSize
- Using ASP.NET MVC From Visual Web Developer Express 2008
- my 21 thoughts on starting a user group
- .NET 3.5, Design by contract and Spec#
- Integrating BizUnit & LoadGen
- WPF - Show/Hide element based on CheckBox.Checked
- ClickOnce, Mage and Visual Studio 2008 (includes fix)
- ASP.NET 3.5 Officially it is !!!
- US and Canada zip code validation RegEx
- Zune Future? - Updated
- Using .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2005
November 2007
- Reticulating splines
- How To: Reset Identity column in SQL Server
- The Not-So-Great Curly Brace-Dim Divide
- Geekswithblogs | Community-Credit Integration Works!
- AJAX Control Toolkit Controls Grayed Out - HOW TO FIX
- The difference between VS2005 and VS2008 Solution files
- WCF Clients and the "Broken" IDisposable Implementation
- Reporting Services 2005 BUG - Report Linking and Paging - ASP.NET Report Viewer
- Sql 2005 Database diagram support objects cannot be installed because this database does not have a valid owner
- Announcing the release of BIDSHelper 1.2 - now with SSIS functionality
- Enterprise Architecture: To process or not to process
- LINQ to SQL...compact!
- San Diego Connected Systems SIG: Ready to launch! (on Tues Nov 13)
- On Ted, Avant-Guarde Presentation Styles, and My Emerging RWness
- Development Philosophy
- DevConnections - MVC Framework for ASP.NET
- SSAS: Connecting via HTTP on Windows Vista
October 2007
- JSON in ASP.NET Ajax: Part 3. Server side deserialization and elaboration of JSON data returned from a Web Service.
- WSUS fubar - Microsoft Desktop Search
- Data Interpolation with SPLINE in C#
- Hi, I'm Chris and I am a VB.NET developer
- We are hiring! :: .Net Developer wanted @ NetIDme Ltd.
- Smart404: Handle 404 smartly in ASP.NET
- Live Search Box Updates
- HDC | Drew Robbins - Microsoft IIS Evangelist
- Microsoft Patterns and Practices Summit
- Silverlight Cream for October 16, 2007 -- #106
- Databinding using ObservableCollection<T>
- BizTalk Services: An overview
- C# 2.0* and Telnet - Not As Painful As It Sounds
- Designer - Developer, a new collaboration with WPF (Screencast)
- T-SQL User defined function to concatenate column to CSV string
- Sony displays the world's first OLED panel, the XEL-1
- Why I Hate Multi Media Pt 1
September 2007
- Priceless
- WCF vs Remoting - adjustments to my results
- The history of C#
- Generic Enum Parsing with Extension Methods
- No Left Navigation when new web part pages are created in sharepoint
- Certification Junkies
- Add vs. AddRange
- SSIS and Unstructured Flat Files
- Avoid common globalization errors in .NET
- Compress Asp.net Ajax Web Service Response - Save Bandwidth
- Kanban boards in software development
- Enterprise Architect, another new name for doing nothing?
- WPF: Simulating data in design mode in Microsoft Expression Blend
- Asp.net ListView - Data Editing
- How to hide a form instead of closing it - with C# .Net
- Exchange Volume Letters batch script (WinXP)
- Annoyance in Quality Center Reporting
- Asp.net ListView - Too much CSS Friendly
- Microwulf: A Personal, Portable(?) Beowulf Cluster - 26Gflops for under USD$1500
- Failed to create a CLSID_BizTalkPropertyBagFactory
August 2007
- NetCmdlets Cheat Sheet (PowerShell)
- Getting started with ADO.NET Entity Framework. Part I: Mapping entities
- Consuming WCF Services from COM using C++
- .NET 3.5 changes to GC.Collect
- How Firefox Handles Empty SRC tags
- Apple Force Installs iTunes
- Are you googling in your class?
- T-SQL – 1 million records in 1 second
- log4net and changing the logger levels
- Free on-line alternative to MS Office - Zoho, now in on-line and off-line modes
- Difference between "throw" and "throw ex" in .NET
- The maximum nametable character count quota (16384) has been exceeded
- C# 3.0 Extension Methods
- The Code Project Browser Add-in for Visual Studio
- C# 3.0 Lambda Expressions replacing Anonymous Methods
- Greenfield design - should you use Terminal Server/Citrix or VMware's VDI?
- Social content in context with Google Reader's "Next" bookmarklet
- SSAS 2008: Data Management Views
- WF Rules and MS BRE - Comparing Performance
- Better.Dev
- Loading UserControl Dynamically in UpdatePanel
- He Likes to Run for Fun in the Hot, Hot Sun
- Asp.net Ajax UpdatePanel Simultaneous Update - A Remedy
- External Functions and the BRE
- C# 3.0 Automatic Properties
- SqlSiteMapProvider in VB.NET
- BizTalk Maps and the Table Looping/Table Extractor Functoids
- Gaming Crosses Over to Real Life
- Create An Ajax Style File Upload
- LDAP - Search for Active Directory Groups in PowerShell
- sql server error "The database principal owns a schema in the database, and cannot be dropped."
July 2007
- Simpsonize Me! Bah!
- Becoming a better developer...
- Combine Multiple JavaScript and CSS Files and Remove Overheads
- Asp.net Ajax and VS2003
- Using Garbage Collection in .NET
- Serialize and deserialize objects as Xml using generic types in C# 2.0
- Simpsonize Me!
- Timeout Asp.net - What could possibly go wrong?
- Maximum report processing jobs limit issue in Crystal Report
- Sending .NET EMail Via smtp.gmail.com
- 'Sys' is undefined - ASP.NET AJAX
- Cell Phone Stolen
- Assigning a Drive letter to a USB drive
- Learning Powershell Without Leaving the Command Line
- Visual Studio 2008 release date
- Bad.Managers
- Print Window On Load
- Free "Mini-Refactor!" From Developer Express
- How Right-Thinking Americans Should Pronounce "Agile"
- SJAX Call
- Congrats to the new and renewed MVPs!
- A Conversation with Scott Hanselman
- Microsoft Says WM6 TCO Better Than With RIM
June 2007
- WHAT THE &^*^&*(^ IS AN MTP DEVICE!!!
- Programming for the masses
- Merge PDFs using ITextSharp
- Using a Table Valued Function in a JOIN
- XML parsing error: An invalid character was found in text content.
- WatiN testing of multi-level Frames page
- The best developers are generally underpaid
- Shipping APIs - USPS and FedEx
- Deleting a 64 bit registry entry from a 32 bit app in C#.
- The breakpoint will not currently be hit. No symbols have been loaded for this document.
- AJAX Enabling your ASP.NET 2.0 Applications - My first session at Tech Mela
- SharePoint Content Request | What would you like to see?
- Finding your CPU pegged at 100%? Looking deeper it seems like SVCHOST.EXE is the culprit? try these two fixes....?
- Melbourne SQL Server User Group - Many-to-Many Revolution
- SharePoint - IE Crashes when opening Office documents
- Did you know? – You can read / write to BAM database directly from outside BizTalk.
- RSS data feeds - RSS is not just for blogs
- Geekswithblogs.net
- Introduction to Coding Standards
- Silverlight With Java Script [Beta 01] Tutorial 05
- My HttpWebRequestHelper class
- Silverlight Cream for June 1, 2007
May 2007
- SQL Profiler bug
- IE7 issues with this site...
- Choosing a Communication Technology
- Party with Palermo: Tech·Ed 2007 edition
- Evektor SportStar Checkout
- NDepend 2.2
- ASP.NET AJAX Extensions Update Panel and Triggers
- SSAS: BIDSHelper Released!
- Interesting Silverlight posts today: Silverlight Control & Silverlight Pad
- Portland Code Camp 3.0
- WPF: The integrator
- ASP.NET AJAX Update Panel Control, the most useful AJAX Control
- Throw vs. Throw Ex
- Active Directory and Firewall Ports
- Database Migration from WSS 2.0 to MOSS 2007
- C#: Determining if a file has a valid digital signature
- Remove HTML Tags from HTML string
April 2007
- What is LINQ?
- Learnings from Creating a Developer Virtual PC Image
- Congrats to Richmond Code Camp
- C# code to dynamically generate CoT XML
- Running IE 6 in Windows Vista
- SSAS: Processing, ForceCommitTimeout and "the operation has been cancelled"
- Visual Studio user settings per project/solution
- Script Callback
- How to: Download file from ASP.Net 2.0 Page
- Overloading operators in VB.Net
- How to recover domain when the primary domain controller failes and there are member domain controllers
- SQL Server split function
- WCF vs. Remoting (with DataSet)- performance comparison
- BizTalk and SSIS
- Visual Studio 2005 Collapse All Macro
- MS BRE: Controlling rule side effects
- C# 3.0 Type Inference
- System.IO.FileLoadException exception
- Ajax.Asp.Net Tips and Tricks: Adding Dynamic Controls to UpdatePanel and Identifying what control has triggered the event.
- How-to: Change Windows Hostname and Keep Oracle 10g Running
- The position problem with ListSearch control in Ajax ControlTool Kit
- Error "pipeline component load() method failed on IPersisPropertyBag implementation"
- a self stirring coffee mug
March 2007
- Getting the filename from a path string - System.IO.Path to the rescue
- Resolving the "Sys is undefined" error in ASP.NET AJAX RTM under IIS 7
- How to use your Zune as a portable hard drive
- Dynamically Loaded Control can not maintain values at PostBack?
- MsMpEng.exe is the nugget draining my CPU...
- Invoking Web Service dynamically using HttpWebRequest
- Free Online Training...
- The ‘=’ operator vs. Equals() in VB.Net
- Overriding default SystemColors in WPF
- Preview Handlers for Outlook 2007/Vista
- Creating generic type object dynamically using reflection
- Failed to access IIS metabase problem
- SubText Conversion for Geekswithblogs.net is back in progress
- DataTable.DataTableReader example
- DotNetNuke : MaintainScrollPositionOnPostback property can not be set without an html form
- My three minutes with Bill Gates
- Visual Studio 2005 takes *forever* to load a project
- SQL Developer Dont's (Part 2) - The Correct Way to GROUP BY
- Stupid MOSS 2007 Error, 2 Days
- WPF: Inheriting from custom class instead of Window
- Microsoft Business Process Aliance
- C# code to get generic list of dates between starting and ending date
- Estimation Techniques : Function Point Analysis (FPA)
- Why we are getting ObjectDataSource: could not find a non-generic method 'Update'.
February 2007
- Another breaking change in ASP.NET 2.0: Session.SessionID
- Developer Metrics - Useful or Harmful?
- Best Practices Not Followed - Zune Player And A German Windows XP
- Web.config And Forms Authentication
- Developing Vista Sidebar Gadgets
- Venice city: a nice tourism place in Italy
- Restore ViewState data with ViewStateModeById
- Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition and FxCop Integration
- ViewState and Dynamic Control
- Using PSCredentials without a prompt
- Did you know? (you can do XML debatching without custom pipeline)
- XFN™ (XHTML Friends Network)
- XSLT - format date
- What is SOA Governance?
- Third-party Web Controls
January 2007
- MS Ajax 1.0 (ATLAS) release first impressions
- XSD.EXE And Using Reflector For Your Documentation Needs
- Multithreading for the Xbox 360
- SQL Server Wish List
- Create Strong Named Assemblies - The Easy Way
- C# code to maintain VPN connection programatically
- OT: Tagged - 5 things
- A gig of RAM is not enough for Vista
- Secure Url
- Free Asp.Net Goodies
- Cross Domain Iframe Resize
- If you're on the plane or bus and somebody won't leave you alone... (try this) :-)
- Mama Pendse (The artificial intelligence based chatterbox)
- High School Computer Programming Languages
- Web Service Software Factory Dec 2006, is out!
- Sharepoint Web Services For Remote Portlets (WSRP)
- How to name Private Methods in C#?
- Vista and Toshiba Satellite P100
- I've been tagged... so here goes
- Tag... I'm it! 5 things you dont know about me.
- CISCO VPN Client Software on Windows Vista