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A Programming Job Interview Challenge #6 - C# Games

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:01:11 GMT

the sixth of the series of programming job interview challenge is out. try your power...

The Most Useful VS Feature No One Seems To Use

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:46:02 GMT

Speed up your debugging time by using the Exceptions dialog box.

Configure Log4Net for ASP.NET 2.0 Web Application

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:46:01 GMT

How to get Log4Net running with an ASP.Net application

Sorting an XML document in C# using XSL

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:16:02 GMT

I needed to sort some XML in C# before itterating through the document. In the end I used the XslCompiledTransform to apply an XSL stylesheet to the XML document. Works very quickly. For reference, this is how I did it.

Creating Packaged ASP.NET Setup Programs with VS 2005

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:01:01 GMT

Step by step instructions how to create a setup package for ASP.NET apps.

SQL Myth: Truncate Cannot Be Rolled Back Because It Is Not Logged

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 06:31:02 GMT

The 3 major differences between truncating a table and deleting from a table

Break into debugging via code

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:46:01 GMT

Breakpoints are for pussies.

Show a Page when Asp.net session expires

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:31:02 GMT

Learn how to show a page when asp,net session expires with one line of code.

C# 2.0: Arity - ever heard of it?

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:46:01 GMT

Arity is the number of arguments that a method takes. If you ever used reflection and CodeDOM, this is a good thing to know of.

Impersonation across threads in ASP.NET

Thu, 31 May 2007 00:57:14 GMT

Shows how to pass the impersonation along to the a new thread.

SubSonic Sugar

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 05:01:01 GMT

Possibly the beginning of the open source "Utility" class framework you've been looking for. Hopefully the community can help this grow into a tremendously useful tool - the potential is there.

Official release of BlogEngine.NET 1.0

Thu, 24 May 2007 02:46:01 GMT

BlogEngine.NET has first official release. Get the details...

Getting Loaded on SubSonic - Collection Basics

Wed, 23 May 2007 23:46:01 GMT

SubSonic provides a handful of methods that make loading objects from your database simple. The most difficult part is just choosing which one to use.

Recursive Queries in SQL Server 2005

Mon, 21 May 2007 08:46:02 GMT

Often times, during my career, I faced a situation where I had to recursively get data out of a table starting from a root. The classic example of such a situation is Employee-Manager relationship table...

Rob Conery - Interview

Mon, 21 May 2007 14:46:01 GMT

"Rob Conery, the creator of SubSonic and founder of The Commerce Starter Kit, believes in open source. Both of his projects are .NET (aka Microsoft) projects and although the big guys in Redmond may never ship open source code themselves, it doesn't mean they don't support it and it sure doesn't mean the .net community doesn't believe in it. I spoke to Rob about the latest 2.0 release of his SubSonic project, Micrsoft, OSS, and big wave surfing in Hawaii."

Make Your Case Sensitive Searches 1000 Times Faster

Tue, 15 May 2007 23:46:01 GMT

Do you find that your case sensitive queries take forever? This little trick will speed up your query a thousand times

Tips for a successful team lead

Thu, 17 May 2007 04:16:01 GMT

partial list of those tips. Some of them can be seen in various "Agile" methodologies, but taken as simply tips, they can improve the quality of your project-life without needing to work with any specific methodology. Heck, just call it "Osherothology"

Biggest difference between Temp tables and Table variables in Sql Serv

Wed, 16 May 2007 09:31:01 GMT

One of the most important differences between Temp tables and Table variables is how they behave in transactions. See how.

SubSonic Starter Site is Out!

Fri, 11 May 2007 05:01:01 GMT

Check out the new SubSonic starter site, complete with CMS, membership, and more.

SubSonic Green Screen Challenge

Sun, 06 May 2007 09:31:01 GMT

Rob needs help with suggestions to build a real-world app and demonstrate just how awesome SubSonic is.

Where is the Code?

Sat, 12 May 2007 06:31:01 GMT

Almost 2 months ago, DotNetKicks went open source yet not source code has been given to the people. Where's the Beef?

TableDiff.exe - a cool SQL Server 2005 tool

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:01:01 GMT

TableDiff.exe is a table comparison tool that comes with the Sql Server 2005. Free. This tool compares 2 tables for schema and/or data on the same server or on different servers.

WinMerge - visual text file differencing and merging tool.

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:46:01 GMT

Tool for visual comparison text documents in Windows to change them

Create a Common Copyright Control

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:31:01 GMT

This is an article that goes through creating a simple control to insert on a site to keep the Copyright years current.

SubSonic-Two-Big

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:31:01 GMT

This is good stuff, and I am soooo stoked that we finally got it up and working. Our goal for 2.0 is to hit the productivity curve as hard as we can - sure DAL tricks are cool, but we are really trying to nail the stuff you do every day as well as we can. Enough pre-amble, let's get to it: