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SQL Server 2008, VS 2008 SP1, and .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 explained....

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:20:01 GMT

If you have Visual Studio 2008 (any version prior to SP1) already installed, SQL Server 2008 installation will block you from installing if you pick any one of the following features: Business Intelligence Development Studio Integration Services Management Tools (Either Basic or Full)

SQL Server 2008 RTM available from MSDN/TechNet

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:31:08 GMT

Finally it is done and ready for download for MSDN/TechNet -subscribers.

Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:16:02 GMT

Customers and partners worldwide confirm mission-critical applications, enterprise-class data warehousing support.

A-Star Pathfinding in C#

Sat, 03 May 2008 23:56:40 GMT

Article with code explanations and walkthroughs. Has screenshots of a program you can download and compile that displays the shortest paths between two points. Could be the beginning of a new game!

51+ Best of jQuery Tutorials and Examples

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:46:02 GMT

A good summary of jQuery resources

Why VisualSVN 1.4 Is So Great

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:01:02 GMT

So after the installation of VisualSVN 1.4, I don't think I'll ever look back. Finally a version of Visual Studio source control integration to make me leave the realms of Visual Source Safe forever.

47 ASP.NET MVC Resources

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:01:02 GMT

Craig Shoemaker highlights some of the best ASP.NET MVC resources available.

39 Free Microsoft eLearning Courses

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:46:02 GMT

39 Free Microsoft eLearning Courses

Using aliases for better code readability

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:46:02 GMT

Here's a quick way to reduce overall code bloat while making your code even more readable.

How DotNetKicks posts are being ripped off for other sites!

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:01:02 GMT

How posts from DotNetKicks are being copy-and-pasted wholesale into other sites. Is your hard work blogging just being stolen for other companies traffic?

Compile C# to Javascript!

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:01:03 GMT

Script# enables more productive Ajax application development by allowing you to compile your C# source code into JavaScript. It allows you to use standard .NET tools like msbuild projects, Visual Studio and IDE intellisense, reflector, refactoring tools, amongst various others.

The First Rule of Programming: It's Always Your Fault

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:31:02 GMT

Yet another great post from Jeff Atwood.

Windows Vista SP1 Available on Windows Update

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:02:21 GMT

Just got the following update notification

What's Wrong With Turkey?

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:51:17 GMT

Software internationalization is difficult under the best of circumstances, but it always amazed me how often one particular country came up in discussions of internationalization problems: Turkey. Jeff's comment should had been in the article but it wasn't It's convenient because: 1) Turkey is similar enough to other Latin alphabets that it's not a giant engineering nightmare to get it to work (see: Arabic or Hebrew). 2) The Turkish-I problem ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_dotted_and_dotless_I ) causes failures in naive string comparisons, whereas other Latin alphabets don't. 3) The Turkey Test gets you 90% of the way to the goal of internationalizing most apps.* We know French and Spanish are going to work. Why not test with the most difficult (but realistically difficult) locale first? * The other 10% is excruciatingly difficult -- again, think of Arabic (bi-directional, shaped letters) or Hebrew (right-to-left).

Building an API with .NET

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:31:02 GMT

This article walks through setting up a simple REST API in C# by creating a custom HttpHandler.

Creating screenshot with C#

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:01:02 GMT

Simple way how to create screenshots in Winforms applications for error-logging purposes.

Microsoft blocked from updating Wikipedia!

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:19:32 GMT

Bummer. Sometimes I try to make technical edits to wikipedia, but I'm too lazy to set up an account. I avoid the anti-microsoft pages because they're just to biased...

Checking to see if a list is a palindrome F#

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:02:54 GMT

You can reverse the list and then match it to the original or try to solve it how humans actually check if a string is a palindrome. That is by simultaneously scanning the string from left to right and right to left char by char checking if they match.

A Question of Programming Ethics

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:46:09 GMT

I generally try to give people the benefit of the doubt, but it's difficult to imagine any scenario where this isn't a completely malicious violation of people's trust.

Retaining Good Developers - 10 Things To Keep Them Happy

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:46:02 GMT

This is a great article. I just wish some of my previous employers would have done just a few of these things. I probably would have stuck around longer.

CAPTCHA is Dead, Long Live CAPTCHA!

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:26:21 GMT

Understand that I am no fan of CAPTCHA. I view them as a necessary and important evil, one of precious few things separating average internet users from a torrential deluge of email, comment, and forum spam.

IE8 Review

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:25:19 GMT

It has a nice undocumentated feature of IE8.

I've got 99 Problems But a Glitch Ain't One : Problem 7 (F#)

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:44:44 GMT

Solution to Problem #7 of 99 Problems in F# (Flatten a nested list structure using recursion).

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Download

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:01:11 GMT

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Download

Why I Love F#: Lists - The Basics

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:16:02 GMT

A wonderful explanation of lists in F#, how they operate, and how to use them.