July, 2010

The Year – 1983 – MS Word 1.0 for DOS is released Windows hadn't yet been created in 1983 There were the days of DOS. The very first incarnation of Microsoft Word took place on 9/29/83. On this date, Microsoft introduced its full-featured word processing...

Continuing to build the infrastructure to support our Silverlight based Windows Phone 7 Application This post is more than just Silverlight or Phone Dev This post is about setting up an entire infrastructure for building service oriented applications...

Building the Infrastructure Our code will be composed of many projects In order for a phone application to talk to the cloud to get data, it needs a few things setup. Here are the things that we are going to build: A web service that hosts a SL-enabled...

Introduction Why we are doing this? A simple database is required for most of my applications. It seems everytime I write a blog post I end up re-explaining how to create a basic database. I'm doing this post so I can use it from other posts. What will...

I don't know about you, but I always seem to fumble around when I need to remove a database. Specifically, I want to remove the underlying physical database file. Most SQL Server Databases are just two files: an *.mdf file and an *.ldf (log file). The...