For the uninitiated, VS 2005 Code Snippets are time-saving bits of code that the IDE allows developers to inject into their code pages so that the mediocre task of writing for each loops and getting rows from a data set and other inane tasks are already...

MSDN Articles can now be viewed and downloaded for 2006 in chm format! http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/htmlhelp.aspx Here is a tip. If you have trouble viewing chm files on your machine, following the advice below: http://www.sharepointblogs...

If you need to return multiple tables in a data set from Oracle with then enterprise library, you have to specify the output parameters of the type OracleType.Cursor with a ParameterDirection.Output and with the specific name of the reference cursor....

We recently ran into some challenges returning the results of a stored procedure from Oracle using the Enteprise Library. The basic elements of conducting this operation is that the stored procedure on the Oracle side must a output a specific parameter...

When developing a web site with web service references recently, we had difficulty checking the code out of Team Foundation Server and running it on a new developer's machine. We quickly figured out that it was because the web references were referring...

Thanks to davidacoder for pointing out that based on this post: http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffbe/archive/2006/01/19/514801.aspx The most recent release of TFS will be a go-live license, contrary to the info I received. Thanks!

There are several things to remember about Team Foundation Server. One of the more important aspects is with regard to the project itself. You first have to understand that even though a CTP was released in Release Candidate fashion post Beta 3, the only...

The scoop here is that for various reasons, (i.e., database integrity, data and relationship reasons I assume) you can't delete work items from Team Foundation Server (not as you and I would think about deletion of work items). Essentially, you place...