For those of you who like certain control classes to open in the code view (instead of the designer view) by default. You can use the following attribute on your class so when you double click on it you get the code view. [System.ComponentModel...

Or has hell officially frozen over? In case you haven’t heard, and I can’t imagine anyone living in modern America who hasn’t heard, the Boston Red Sox have buried more than 80 years of pain and finally clenched a World Series Championship. And I find...

I thought I'd get in on the recent sports commentary theme. :-) I'm Canadian, and as such, I am attuned to the pulse of ice hockey whether I like it or not. It really sucks not having any NHL hockey to watch on television, and it looks like we're going...

Recently my boss handed me the challenge of designing and developing an application that would handle the task of end to end hardware order fulfillment. I can tell by the collective groan that those of you working in large companies and organizations...

At least for me in terms of the NFL. My all-time favorite player has made his way to Seattle to play for the Seahawks. Yes, Jerry Rice will wear the coveted #80 ( eternal thanks to Steve Largent ) for Seattle. Having grown up in the San Francisco Bay...

For me, the pain and pleasure of programming with C# and .NET can be best represented by the default DataGrid control for Windows Form. On it’s face the DataGrid control is functional, useful and performs well. A data source can easily be bound to the...

finally has a championship team. It’s only been 25ish years since Seattle has been able to boast of a national championship in professional sports. But us sports fan in Seattle should really take a moment to celebrate this feat, after all, it may be another...

"Blog," he said. Not being a big fan of PDAs (Public Displays of Acumen) I proffer the handiest excuse and fix my resolve back to the work at hand. "Blog!" he then exhorted. That Scott. So funny. What profundities do I have to offer that the world so...

We all develop habits. Some habits are good, some are very bad. Some are easily broken, others require extensive deprogramming. Our work habits are no different. When I first started in the business I lived in Sillycone Valley and took jobs as a contractor...