Short while after I wrote…

This post will explain how to do fading (fade out a layer) in Gimp. Assuming you have an image open... 1. Add a new layer 2. Draw the part you want faded…

Attributes are a great way to communicate some extra information about a class, method or property and the debugger looks for a few different attributes…

Ostatnio, tj. kilka godzin temu, przemierzajac bezgraniczne przestrzenie Internetu trafilem na ciekawe biblioteki sluzace do obslugi bazy danych, a…

Here are are few tips on using the IDisposable pattern and using Finalizers - Implement IDiposable if accessing managed resources like…

Moved to http://blog.ehn.nu/2009/03/05/implementing-dependency-replication-with-tfs-team-build/

I was working on a SSIS Data Flow Task by passing Package Variables into a Stored Procedure. I will be using [AdventureWorks] sample database included…

I'M A PC AND I'M A MVP If you were in Seattle this week for #mvp09 (the 2009 Microsoft MVP Summit), then you either skipped the Wednesday Keynotes or you…

Since PDC I’ve been working on and off on an “Oslo” based solution for deploying a BizTalk application; unfortunately I couldn’t get a good chunk of time…

I need sample / test data all the time. When ever I build an application for a client it is useful for testing and demonstrating, when I teach a course…

I was trying to get SQL Server 2008 express installed and every time I ran the installation program it kept coming up saying that my computer was failing…

I started looking at the latest the EF team had to offer and while things have progressed immensely over the years it appears that there is still some…

If you needed to generate dynamic logfile names with log4net then you can use the following config 1: <appender name="RollingFileAppenderV1"…

By Default we have the following values for following properties of a RollingFileAppender - staticLogFileName = true - countDirection = –1 - rollingStyle…

In this issue: Velvart Andras, Corey Miller, Alex Knight, and Terence Tsang. Shoutouts: Shawn Wildermuth has comments about and a link to ADO.NET Data…

While consuming a WCF Service in BizTalk Server 2006 R2 using WCF adapter (WSHTTP binding), there is one thing that has to be kept in mind. By default,…

Windows 7 “beta” Over The honeymoon is over, and it looks like the beta period is over, too. http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/02/26/some-changes-since…

What techniques can you use to get agile practices into a waterfall project/legacy code base? Approaches Small greenfield project

I documented the results from the recent Visual Basic survey we carried out in the UK but decided not to include any conclusions I drew from it as I was…

Have you noticed the tiny graphic image aside of your address bar when you load up your DotNetNuke site in your browser that looks like this?…