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Three Essential Expression Blend Add-ins

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:01:19 GMT

There are a handful of essential add-ins for Expression Blend that you should be using. This article talks about how you get the add-ins working in the first place and then dives into a few of the add-ins that are available.

Data Dude tutorial 1 - Creating a database project

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:40:27 GMT

David Giard lays out the steps to creating your first dbproj with Visual Studio for Database Professionals.

I hate Vista. I'm moving to Windows Mojave.

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:31:03 GMT

So I've heard the bad press. I've seen the pc vs. mac ads. I've heard my friends' complaints about crashing, security, and speed. That's why I'm moving to Windows Mojave. It seems Microsoft finally got an OS right.

When is a bug not a bug?

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:07:54 GMT

It's not a bug, it's a feature. Kent Tegels finds a "feature" with spatial data in SQL 2008

Linq, Like, Mocks, and Expression Trees

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:18:59 GMT

Mel Grub faces using SQL "LIKE" in LINQ with a mocked DataContext

Captcha the Flag

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:31:15 GMT

Jeff Blankenburg shows what Microsoft has up its sleeve for a new generation of CAPTCHA.

TUTORIAL: Creating a WCF Service For Silverlight 2 and SQL

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:27:42 GMT

Today I'm going to show how to create a simple WCF service, and consume it from a Silverlight application. This is something you are going to need to do quite often, and if for no other reason, I am documenting this here so that I have it as a reference.