LINQ and SQLCLR

mtaulty.com — One of the requests/questions that I heard a few times at TechEd Europe was "When can we use LINQ inside of SQL Server?". I must admit that I hadn't really thought about this very much because I tend to think of writing SQL Server procedures, functions, etc. as largely being done in T-SQL. I know that there are cases when CLR makes sense but I think of it as happening a lot less frequently than the T-SQL case. read more...

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Performance Improvements in Visual C++

blogs.msdn.com — Hi, my name is Jim Springfield, and I’m an architect on the Visual C++ team. I recently spent two months working on some core improvements to how VC deals with Intellisense as well as overall UI responsiveness. We observed a strong correlation between the severity of these performance issues and the size of the projects and solutions exhibiting these problems. As a result, we worked closely with some large ISV customers who were reporting problems with our IDE. These customers typically had solutions with over a hundred projects comprising thousands of files. While I can’t identify them by full name, I read more...

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Flexible and Efficient HTML/CSS Form Layout

2tbsp.com — HTML 4's fieldset, legend, and label tags took longer to find their way into my toolbox than I'd care to admit. In fact, it took Dreamweaver's use of them for form design a few years back to bring them to my attention. Since then I've combined several useful tips from experts to create my own standard form layout style sheet. I'll share my thoughts behind my form style sheet, basic usage examples, and the HTML and CSS source for you to download and try. read more...

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Microsoft Access is Still Extremely Useful

bloodyflux.com — Its refreshing to jump into Access, create a couple tables or import data from Excel, run the form creation wizard and your done. read more...

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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

devlicio.us — To improve impressions of mainstream software development - which, presumably, should be based upon the foundations of computer science - it comes upon the shoulders of each developer to educate him or herself with the knowledge necessary to give this discipline proper attention. Developers cannot push off this responsibility to management or "the priority setters." It is up to each of us to give software development the respect it deserves and educate those around us, accordingly. read more...

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CodeDOM in C# 2.0

aspalliance.com — CodeDOM is a very powerful Application Programming Interface (API) that is available with Microsoft .NET 2.0. This API can do wonders for you by generating code on the fly. This article takes a look at this technology and explains it with code examples wherever appropriate. read more...

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Path Finding Using A* in C# 3.0, Part

blogs.msdn.com — In order to make the A* algorithm work we need to get the lowest-estimated-cost-path-discovered-so-far out of the list of paths under consideration. The standard data structure for doing so is called a “priority queue”. Priority queues are so-called because they are typically used to store a list of jobs where each job has an associated priority. read more...

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Ten CSS tricks you may not know | evolt.org

evolt.org — Much better! Just a couple of words of warning: This CSS shorthand version will only work if you're specifying both the font-size and the font-family. Also, if you don't specify the font-weight, font-style, or font-varient then these values will automatically default to a read more...

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