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In this post I'm going to demonstrate how you would return and consume multiple result sets from a...

Date: 05/06/2008

Did you know that VS2008 has a great feature to remove any unused 'using' statements in your code?...

Date: 03/19/2008

Lately I've been experimenting with SCVMM and PowerShell, and I wondered how hard it would be to...

Date: 03/17/2008

I know I had a hard time trying to work this out when I was starting to use Expression, so I thought...

Date: 09/17/2007

Goals of this post: Example for writing a custom trace listener which outputs real-time information...

Date: 09/06/2007

Technorati Tags: virtual earth, wpf, ve, geotagging I wanted to experiment more with WPF, since I...

Date: 08/22/2007

Technorati Tags: wpf, thumbnails, image, performance, slow, BitmapImage During a recent WPF session...

Date: 08/22/2007

Just a quick tip I thought I would share... When working in SQL Server Management Studio, an easy...

Date: 08/09/2007

Recently we had a new release of an application that didn't go as well as planned, which I'm sure a...

Date: 07/06/2007

If you've read my earlier post, Windows Live Writer Plugins & Dirty Diapers!, you'll know that...

Date: 06/01/2007

Yesterday my manager sent an email around to the team asking for ways we could better utilize the...

Date: 05/09/2007

One of the team members pointed out yesterday that it's exactly a year since I made this obnoxious...

Date: 02/23/2007

If you're serious about developing in .NET, you MUST have this tool! Scott Hanselman has a great...

Date: 02/21/2007

I've been playing around with Windows Live Writer for a little while now (since it first came out in...

Date: 02/19/2007

One of the challenges our group deals with is finding an easy and reliable way to get our...

Date: 05/08/2006

Jeff Jones is a director at MS who works on nothing but security. I've been reading his posts on an...

Date: 05/01/2006

I figure there is plenty of information out there about how to write a good resume, so I thought I'd...

Date: 04/10/2006

I’m attending the https://www.mix06.com conference this week in Las Vegas and just attended a session...

Date: 03/20/2006

If you haven’t yet found the Code Snippets feature in VS 2005 it’s time to give it a look. It’s one...

Date: 03/10/2006

Here's a great trick that can be really handy if you're a fan of the SQL Profiler. In your...

Date: 03/02/2006

I've been spending the past couple of months trying very hard to hire some temporary (i.e.;...

Date: 02/21/2006

I must admit that up until about 18 months ago I rarely (if ever) used modal dialogs when building...

Date: 02/20/2006

Joel Spolsky has a great website - his articles are always interesting. Looks like he's starting a...

Date: 02/03/2006

Have you ever gone to modify what you thought was a simple stored procedure (one that you didn't...

Date: 01/06/2006

I'm a big fan of using locking hints when writing SQL queries. And I'm continually amazed at how...

Date: 12/29/2005

Brad Abrams has a great series going on Framework Design Guidelines. It's worth checking out....

Date: 12/15/2005

By now, you’re probably aware that ASP.NET 2.0 allows you to place a specially named file in your...

Date: 11/22/2005

Many of the tools we write are used by the DevDiv Build Lab to get their job done. Cranking out...

Date: 10/21/2005

In SQL2000 maintenance plans if you want to backup databases there is an option to allow you to...

Date: 10/18/2005

Where to put the clustered index Last month there was a heated discussion in our group about whether...

Date: 10/07/2005

Disabling an (posted by Aaron)

I consistently see people looking for easy ways to disable asp:buttons after they're clicked. The...

Date: 10/06/2005

Two random debates that have come up on our team lately... The Great Index Debate While fixing some...

Date: 09/13/2005

A few years ago when I started in my current job my group ran into a situation on an internal system...

Date: 07/26/2005

Upgrading your existing Whidbey project to Beta 2? Here's a little check list you might find useful....

Date: 07/12/2005

It's been a while since any of us posted! A bunch of factors have contributed to this, including...

Date: 07/06/2005

ahh.. TechEd 2005. Another conference under out belts. Our bellies full of free granola bars and...

Date: 06/10/2005

Greetings from TechEd 2005 in Orlando!Arturo and I are here for the week - I'm here with actual work...

Date: 06/07/2005

When SQL functions were first introduced I stumbled across one function in particular that I’ve...

Date: 06/02/2005

I'll take a [very slight] segue from support costs to talk about one aspect of running this web team...

Date: 06/01/2005

One of the projects I’m working on is to take performance data generated from our build lab in xml...

Date: 05/26/2005

As I mentioned in my first post, we own a large amount of applications; about 80 at the last count....

Date: 05/25/2005

One of the perils of managed code taking memory management out of developers’ hands is that we often...

Date: 05/24/2005

There are always 10 good ways to solve a typical coding problem. Each solution might use a slightly...

Date: 05/23/2005

I wanted to kick off this new blog with a post describing the team, what we do, who we are, etc....

Date: 05/17/2005