One common requirement with any decent sized multi-version product is to automatically update the version numbers of the binaries on a regular basis. This is generally achieved by updating the AssemblyInfo.cs (or other language equivalent ) files. ...

Team Foundation servers use MSBuild to build our projects. MSBuild does not support the Visual Studio Setup/Deployment projects natively. In many of today's applications it's a must to have msi based installs created via Visual Studio. Till someone actually...

One of the most tiresome (but important) things when developing web services is handling un-handled exceptions. A good design principle forces you to catch and cast relevant exceptions raised by your web methods into more meaningful SOAP exceptions. But...

One of the common problems I have seen is to bulk upload data to a SQL Server database. If you have the flexibility to directly run your code in SQL, you have a ton of options. But let's say that you have to massage the data before you throw it in to...