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In this post I'm going to demonstrate how you would return and consume multiple result sets from a stored procedure in LINQ to SQL. Imagine you have a stored procedure like this one below. Very simple – it’s just returns all customers and
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Did you know that VS2008 has a great feature to remove any unused 'using' statements in your code? Simply right click anywhere in your code file, select ' Organize Usings ' and select ' Remove Unused Usings '. You then end up with only the using statements
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Lately I've been experimenting with SCVMM and PowerShell, and I wondered how hard it would be to automate the creation of a Virtual Machine via C#. Well the good news is that's it not that hard at all! In this post I'm going to demonstrate how to: Create
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I know I had a hard time trying to work this out when I was starting to use Expression, so I thought it might be useful to share! Thanks Tim ! Creating Arcs and Changing Centers with Expression Jason
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Goals of this post: Example for writing a custom trace listener which outputs real-time information over the network, which can then be consumed by a remote client. Example for writing that remote client, which functions much like FileMon in showing real-time
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Technorati Tags: virtual earth , wpf , ve , geotagging I wanted to experiment more with WPF, since I don't get to use it in my Real Job. Also, I love me some Virtual Earth, so I was looking to find a way to merge the two. What I came up with is an application
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Technorati Tags: wpf , thumbnails , image , performance , slow , BitmapImage During a recent WPF session I needed to build a ListBox that showed a bunch of images loaded from an arbitrary directory. Thanks to WPF's data binding, this was trivial - I just
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Just a quick tip I thought I would share... When working in SQL Server Management Studio, an easy way to hide the results of a query is to press CTRL + R. Press it again to toggle showing the results. Jason
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Recently we had a new release of an application that didn't go as well as planned, which I'm sure a lot of you can probably relate to - after all, how many rollouts do go as planned? This new release contained miles of bug fixes and enhancements and was
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If you've read my earlier post, Windows Live Writer Plugins & Dirty Diapers! , you'll know that I'm a big fan of Windows Live Writer. Well good news! They've just released Beta 2 and it just keeps getting better. You can check it out and download
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Yesterday my manager sent an email around to the team asking for ways we could better utilize the blog and how we could 'do more blogging'. Needless to say, his email got me thinking... How do we - an internally facing team - better connect with customers?
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One of the team members pointed out yesterday that it's exactly a year since I made this obnoxious post about how difficult it is to find good people. That post was made after about two months of trying to find two temp employees, if I remember correctly,
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If you're serious about developing in .NET, you MUST have this tool! Scott Hanselman has a great post detailing the new features here: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Reflector5ReleasedWorldDominationAssured.aspx You can download it from here - Jason
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I've been playing around with Windows Live Writer for a little while now (since it first came out in beta!) and the more I use it, the better it seems to get (in case you haven't used it, I encourage you to check it out ). The only "problem" I've had
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Before I even start I’m sure all you know what I’m going to talk about. First let me explain what our team does in Microsoft. Ours is an automation team whose primary function is develop apps for the Developer Division build lab for managing the build
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