Jerry Dixon's Blog
JerBear's Lair - A dumping ground for tips and information about .NET, SQL Server, and technology in general.
I'm moving on to bigger and better things, so this blog has come to an end. If you'd like to follow...
Date: 11/18/2014
In a previous post, I covered how you can use SignalR to provide real-time communications between a...
Date: 10/11/2014
Edit: This is now part 1 of a series. This post covers SignalR and how it is used to provide...
Date: 08/16/2014
I recently needed to quickly create a PowerShell script that would create a Zip file from a...
Date: 08/08/2014
Just a quick post to remind everyone that Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 has now been released. It has...
Date: 08/07/2014
My son and I spent most of the day yesterday trying to get our laptops to boot from a VHD. We found...
Date: 06/29/2014
I often need to obtain the name of the current property of method, and I have historically used...
Date: 06/27/2014
Microsoft maintains a database of all supported products, along with the dates when those products'...
Date: 07/03/2013
I recently had a conversation about .NET connection pooling, and how this compares to reusing a...
Date: 05/19/2011
As most people know by now, support for Visual Basic 6 expired in 2008...
Date: 06/30/2010
Windows Vista cannot obtain an IP address from certain routers or from certain non-Microsoft DHCP servers
I recently had a need to prove that my home router was not the cause of some networking...
Date: 08/12/2008
During a conversation today, a colleague of mine pointed out something that I didn't know: A...
Date: 06/12/2008
Microsoft has launched a new web site where IT Professionals can store and share Internet...
Date: 05/30/2008
I recently decided to fire up SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services on my Vista laptop. I installed SQL...
Date: 04/21/2008
Today at MIX, Microsoft unveiled Microsoft SQL Server™ Data Services (SSDS), a Web-facing...
Date: 03/05/2008
I've been trying to get SQL Compact 3.5 working in Visual Studio 2008. Since SQL Compact 3.5 ships...
Date: 01/25/2008
Ah.... VB 6. It's been one of my favorite languages. Over the years, I've created all...
Date: 12/14/2007
In part 1 of this series, I showed how to make one web part accept data from another. In part 2, I...
Date: 11/08/2007
In a previous post, I talked about Alternate Data Streams and how some virus-scanning engines use...
Date: 09/28/2007
I want to recap a topic that has been around for a while: Alternate Data Streams. This topic has...
Date: 09/20/2007
In part 1 of this series, I showed how to make one web part accept data from another. In part 2, I...
Date: 09/02/2007
In part 1 of this series, I showed how to make one web part accept data from another. In this part,...
Date: 09/01/2007
Josh Holmes recently asked me to present a couple of small demos for an ArcReady event in Memphis....
Date: 08/31/2007
In my last post, I discussed the Microsoft product lifecycle site, and how you should use it to...
Date: 08/27/2007
Many people know about the support lifecycle site at Microsoft. It contains information about the...
Date: 08/16/2007
Bill Laing has been quoted as saying that “Windows Server 2008 would be the last 32-bit Microsoft...
Date: 08/10/2007
Hello and welcome! My name is Jerry Dixon and I am a software developer living in Memphis Tennessee....
Date: 08/10/2007