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Visual Studio 2010 Screenshots

Wed, 20 May 2009 22:03:58 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 has been made available to MSDN subscribers yesterday. I downloaded Visual Studio 2010 today and installed it on Windows 7 RC. I took some images so that you can see what it looks like

Client Statistics in SSMS. Check execution times

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:46:21 GMT

Do you use Client Statistics when testing queries?. When set on you can get the same results and much more that can help you measure your performance while altering your code.

Create XML Files Out Of SQL Server With SSIS And FOR XML Syntax

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:09:55 GMT

Create XML Files Out Of SQL Server With SQL Server Integration Services And FOR XML Query Syntax

Collection Of Puzzles For Programmers

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:16:03 GMT

A nice collection of puzzles. Some are harder than others so there is something for everyone. You can choose any language you want, you will see that there are solutions in C#, Ruby, Python, Visual Basic, SQL, JavaScript, C++ and other languages.

SQL Server 2008 Proximity Search With The Geography Data Type

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:55:25 GMT

Showing how you can use the geography data type in SQL Server 2008 to do zipcode proximity search, link to data is available as well as a link to 2000/2005 version

Key Feature list For All the Different Windows 7 Versions

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:33:41 GMT

Here are the key features for all the different windows 7 versions

Cool Way To Launch The Malicious Software Removal Tool

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:35:43 GMT

Did you know that you can run the Malicious Software Removal Tool from the run command or create a shortcut in 2 easy steps

Sharing ASP.net Session State Between Web Applications With SQL Server

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:53:15 GMT

Sharing ASP.net MVC Session State Between Web Applications With SQL Server

SQL Server - Set based random numbers

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 02:31:09 GMT

SQL Server - Set based random numbers The problem with the rand function occurs when you use set based operations.

The Ten Most Asked SQL Server Questions And Their Answers

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:01:14 GMT

Then 10 most asked SQL Server Programming questions and their answer

SQL Server Precision And Scale Problems

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:31:04 GMT

Many people are confused about SQL Server's precision and scale. This is unfortunate because choosing the correct values for precision and scale is critically important when you perform math operations using the decimal/numeric data type

Troubleshooting blocking 101 on sql-server

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:31:02 GMT

How to find out which process is blickong in SQL-server 2005

Update on Silverlight 2 - and a glimpse of Silverlight 3

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:16:21 GMT

ScottGu unveils the plans for Silverlight 3, shipping next year

Stephen Forte talks about LINQ to REST

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:18:54 GMT

Mr. Forte gives nice little introduction to LINQ to REST with ADO.NET Data Services.

Testing is hard but debugging just sucks A$$

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:31:02 GMT

"At the users group I asked the question to the group 'who creates automated tests as part of their daily development cycle?'. After I asked this question I followed it up with, and if you don't WHY, WHY, WHY, WHY...... Below are some of the answers I received (btw, not the first time I have heard these reasons)."

Breaking changes to the String class in .NET 4.0

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:31:13 GMT

This change will affect the behavior of the String.StartsWith, String.EndsWith, String.IndexOf and String.LastIndexOf methods by changing them to perform an ordinal (byte-for-byte) comparison by default instead of a culture-sensitive comparison using CultureInfo.CurrentCulture. In addition, the default overloads of String.ToUpper, String.ToLower, Char.ToUpper and Char.ToLower will be changed to use CultureInfo.InvariantCulture instead of CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.

Anders Hejlsberg Video on C# Dynamic

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:46:02 GMT

In this Channel 9 video C# architect Anders Hejlsberg answers some commonly asked questions about the new Dynamic features that will be included in C# 4.0. Building on the talk that he gave at PDC, Anders chats with C# Community PM Charlie Calvert. They discuss questions that community members have asked and riff on themes of import to developers who have been following the latest news from the C# team.

An interview with Roy Osherove author of "The Art of Unit Testing"

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:46:02 GMT

A short interview with Roy Osherove, author of a new book "The Art of Unit Testing" and known blogger, who works on Typemock Isolator.

VB.Net: Rhino Mocks and the AAA syntax

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:12:31 GMT

About how to use the new AAA (Arrange, act, and Assert) syntax with VB.Net and the difference with the old syntax.

An interview with Louis Davidson author of pro sql server 2008

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:01:12 GMT

Pro SQL Server 2008 Relational Database Design and Implementation is one of those books that should be in the hands of every SQL Server developer. There are tons of SQL Server programming books around but none of them covers the fundamentals of a good SQL Server database, the design. If your design is 'broken' then it is a lot harder to fix it down the road, design is probably the number one reason people have all kinds of problems with their databases.

LINQ to SQL queries involving strings cause SQL Server procedure cache

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:01:03 GMT

Be careful when using LINQ. If an application is using LINQ to SQL and the queries involve the use of strings that can be highly variable in length, the SQL Server procedure cache will become bloated with one version of the query for every possible string length

Send Action Queries to Your Database in Batches

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:46:03 GMT

Coming from a database background, I should've known better. But, I didn't. Recently I found myself needing to write a GUI wrapper for a new Address Standardization component we got at work. This was purchased in order to clean addresses for a variety of data processing tasks we do on the way into the database, allowing us to completely automate these processes,

My Dev Kit -- Alvin Ashcraft

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:46:14 GMT

With a nod to John Lam and Shawn Wildermuth for the inspiration, here is a rundown of the things I use on a daily basis to develop software. This includes hardware, software and online resources.

Cloud Computing - More Storms Ahead

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:41:04 GMT

Cloud computing will need to addess multiple technical issues (including DNS security) before it becomes mainstream.

Only In A Database Can You Get 1000% + Improvement By Changing A Few L

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:01:04 GMT

Only In A Database Can You Get 1000% + Improvement By Changing A Few Lines Of Code