I’m attending the http://www.mix06.com conference this week in Las Vegas and just attended a session on the Windows Live platform. One of the services that peeked my interest was a brief demo given on what are known as Messenger BOTS. The idea being that...

If you haven’t yet found the Code Snippets feature in VS 2005 it’s time to give it a look. It’s one of those great features that it’s in VS 2005 but one that gets very little attention from most people because it’s sort of a “bonus feature”. You don’t...

Here's a great trick that can be really handy if you're a fan of the SQL Profiler. In your application connection strings add the "Application Name" keyword/value. Example. server=MyServer;database=MyDatabase;Integrated Security=SSPI; Application...