Nikhil Singhal's Blog

How to AutoIncrement version with each build using Team Foundation Server build (with a little help from AssemblyInfoTask)

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. There Read More...

Visual Studio Setup/deployment projects and Team Foundation Server

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 Read More...

Handling global web service unhandled exceptions

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 Read More...

Bulk Insert into SQL from C# App

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 Read More...