I'm working on a project that makes extensive use of Yukon's CLR integration. This makes things that have traditionally been difficult to do in T-SQL (like string manipulation) a whole lot easier. If you aren't familiar with the basics of SQLCLR integration...

Steve Butler turned me on to this nifty utility that replaces the stock Task Switcher functionality. I installed it on my laptop, and now the plain old Windows task switcher seems so, well -- plain, that I've put it on all my other machines too...

The MSCOM Community Team has launched a spiffy new way for the developer community to find answers to technical questions and communicate about MS development technologies. http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ Pretty neat stuff. The ability to register...