Dan Gartner's codetastic blog about programming and other things (such as hotdogs, for instance).

The native unit testing capabilities in VS11 beta are very cool indeed. Being mainly a managed code developer, I was left wondering how to pass a test if an expected exception is thrown (a al the [ExpectedException] attribute I’ve used with MS-TEST in...

Below is a collection of useful whitepapers on Windows and SQL Azure that have been recently released. I plan on updating this page as others are released. Developing and Deploying with SQL Azure Brief Description This document provides guidelines on...

I sometimes encounter a requirement where we want to execute some code and, if that method throws an exception, we want to retry executing it several times until some limit is reached.  In this scenario, the thrown exception was expected at times...

I’ve been working on a relatively simple WPF application lately, in an effort to effectively follow the MVVM pattern, I’ve been working with custom attached properties. In my app, I have some textboxes that I want to contain some default text that is...

The latest version of the AJAX Control Toolkit includes a new SeaDragon control that allows you to DeepZoom images with pure JavaScript. This is very cool, however, the instructions for embedding the viewer seem to already be out of date. The instructions...