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02 May 2009
Solution to the “Format of the initialization string does not conform to specification starting at index 0.” Exception

You are probably using the wrong DbConnection class. If you are using Access then make sure you use OleDbConnection, not SqlConnection…and vice versa. Alternatively you could be referencing your MDB file wrong. Here’s the proper way: <connectionStrings> Read More...

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17 April 2008
Short and Sweet "Silverlight 2.0, LINQ and WCF in 5 Minutes" Video

Download Source This is the first video in my new "Short and Sweet" video series. I'm going to continue with Silverlight, LINQ and WCF path for the series. Please ping me if you have an idea for a future video. This video takes you through the minimum Read More...

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08 May 2007
MSDN & TechNet is hiring full time web developers

Here's a great opportunity to come work for Microsoft! Come help us build out the next Web 2.0 version of MSDN and TechNet. We are looking for very sharp top-notch devs that are up on AJAX, ASP.NET, SilverLight, C#, SQL. From Sam 's blog I need somone Read More...

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30 January 2007
How to convert XmlDocument to XmlReader for SqlXml data type.

The SqlXml datatype constructor only accepts a Stream or XmlReader, if you have an XmlDocument in memory (go with stream if you have it) then you can easily convert to a SqlXml compatible stream with the XmlNodeReader class. XmlNodeReader implements IDisposable, Read More...

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