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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

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.

professional values

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:45:24 GMT

Interesting post about over the need to agree to disagree, even in software development.

An Interview With Kevin Kline About SQL In A Nutshell Third Edition

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:16:03 GMT

An Interview With Kevin Kline About SQL In A Nutshell Third Edition. SQL In A Nutshell covers MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and 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

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.

Three Simple Rhino Mocks Rules

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:46:13 GMT

Jimmy Bogard shows how he uses the new Rhino Mocks syntax, and three short rules for using it.

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,

Fluent NHibernate - Working with NHibernate without configuration file

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:46:10 GMT

"I believe that the most important reason why NHibernate is not more widely adopted by general DEV population is exactly the "Java XML configuration" PIA feeling you have while working with it. Great news for all of us from that group: NHibernate is possible to be used WITHOUT configuration files! "

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

nHibernate performance against stored procedures

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:01:15 GMT

A 5 part blogpost about the performance of a select statement done with ADO.Net using inline sql, and stored procedures (even some dynamic sql) and then nHibernate to get the same results. But this one has an alternate ending.

How to include OpenSearch for your website.

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:06:49 GMT

Scott explains what OpeSearch is and how to add it to for your website.

5 Books Every Developer Should Read

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:01:02 GMT

Which books should you read/buy when you are a programmer? I have listed 5 books that have helped me a lot. The books that I have chosen are not specific to any language although some of the books have examples in one language only

Skip lists are fascinating!

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:16:03 GMT

Skip lists are a fascinating data structure: very simple, and yet have the same asymptotic efficiency as much more complicated AVL trees and red-black trees. In this article, I discuss the asymptotic efficiency of operations on skip lists, the ideas that make them work, and their interesting use cases. And, of course, I give you the source code for a skip list in C#.

Seperations of concerns

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:31:03 GMT

This is the 5th and last part in a series on hoow to make a bad application better. Wonderfully explained. There is a lot to learn from this.

StructureMap: Basic Scenario Usage

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:12:48 GMT

StructureMap usages: Simple Factory, Object Lifetime Manager, Object Assembler

NHibernate: Testing The Performance Urban Legend

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:01:10 GMT

I wanted to challenge the dogmatic urban legend passed down from .NET developer to .NET developer since the classic ASP days. That dogma simply states you should always access your database via stored procedure for "performance reasons". Inline SQL is BAAAAAAD. So I fired up Visual Studio, created a class and started writing tests.

ASP.NET Hacks

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:46:08 GMT

At LessThanDot, we've decided to release a series of articles, tips and tricks which will be known as the "Hacks" series. The first instalment was the popular SQL Server Programming Hacks and this week sees the release of the ASP.NET Hacks. These hacks have been split up into the following categories: 1 Applications 2 Caching 3 Controls 4 Database 5 Dates 6 Debugging 7 Email 8 Encryption 9 Files 10 Images 11 Javascript 12 Objects and Classes 13 Pages 14 Sessions 15 Strings 16 Validation 17 Visual Studio 18 Web We've decided to release these in the wiki so that anyone can contribute to them, so feel free to add anything else that you find useful.

Danger in Design: Why bother with Architecture?

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:01:12 GMT

Creativity is a wonderful thing. It's also something different for each of us, which is why sometimes our perspectives on the world can produce conflicting ideas on what is the right way and the wrong way to do things. This is a very common facet of the IT world, in particular making computer software, solutions and services.