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IDE Features In Visual Studio 2010

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:11:56 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 has some cool features for the developers to allow rapid application development and basically allow the developers to be more productive.

XML Documentation File For Your .Net Project - It's Important

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:46:04 GMT

No comments appeared in the Visual Studio tooltip. On In this article, I am going to explain why it is so important to generate XML documentation file for each one of your .Net projects.

Troubleshooting blocking 101 on sql-server

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:31:02 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"

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:46:02 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 14:12:31 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 14:01:12 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 14:01:03 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

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:46:03 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,

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

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:01:04 GMT

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

VB.Net: Single Instance application the better way

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:35:14 GMT

A better way to create a single instance application

nHibernate performance against stored procedures

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:01:15 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.

5 Books Every Developer Should Read

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:01:02 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

Extending the System.Drawing.Image clas to make a thumbnail

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:46:04 GMT

Extending the System.Drawing.Image clas to make a thumbnail easy way. Instead of using getThumbnail you just use Tothumbnail and a maximumsize, optional parameter is if you want to keep the aspect ratio.

LTD Puzzle 5 -Fibonacci Sequence

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:18:30 GMT

This weeks puzzle is a nice and simple one to ease all those with sore heads from the July 4th celebrations back into thinking code...

ASP.NET Hacks

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:46:08 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 14:01:12 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.

Scale Cheaply - Sharding

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:16:05 GMT

There are a lot of expensive ways to scale your database - all of which are highly touted by the big three database vendors because, well, they want to sell you all types of really expensive stuff. Despite what an "engagement consultant" might tell you though, most of the high-traffic websites on the web (google, digg, facebook) rely on far cheaper and better strategies: the core of which is called sharding.

C# Sorting winforms controls using linq

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:16:09 GMT

C# Sorting winforms controls using LINQ

Rails can't scale alone.

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:50:39 GMT

So why use Rails? With Rails you can spend 10% of the time creating the app, 80% of the time scaling it, and 10% of the time marketing how Rails scales.

Compound Operators Or How T-SQL Is Morphing Into VB Or C#

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:01:02 GMT

C# is becoming more dynamic (like Python and Ruby) but now SQL is becoming more like C# (but with LINQ C# is becoming more like SQL) Confused? SQL Server has added compound operators......................................

What is Old is New Again: Functional Programming

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:01:06 GMT

One of the greatest ideals of high level programming is the idea of code reuse. In the old days, this was only ever done using functions or subroutines, depending on the language. In later days, this was performed as object oriented design. Every language seems to accomplish these ideals in various ways to accomplish a similar goal.

Good SQL Articles To Read If You Can't Afford Books

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:01:02 GMT

You have only $50 left and you can buy two DVDs or one SQL book, what do you do? I would buy the book but not every person has the same idea of a fun time. This is the reason why I present you with a bunch of links to articles which will give you very good info. some of this you won't be able to find in a book anyway.

LessThanDot - Friday the Thirteenths

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:43:42 GMT

We've decided to do a recurring feature at LessThanDot and have a "Programmer Puzzles" section with interesting puzzles published. This week the challenge has been set to "identify all friday the thirteenths for a given timeframe". You can use any programming language you like, just please let people know which one you have decided to use!

The Evolution of Systems Integration

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:15:41 GMT

From Fax to SOA, a journey to success ? We've come a long way since the days of fax machines and typewriters - the objectives have remained pretty similar, and with each iteration of the solution we've found resolution to issues in the former, yet we continue to unveil new aspects of the objective that need addressing. Will we ever get to a perfect solution ?

SQL Server Programming Hacks

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:16:02 GMT

This is a collection of SQL hacks, right now there are 8 sections and between 70 and 80 hacks.