Recently I was discussing SQL Server encryption with some friends who have been using it to encrypt short strings such as Social Security numbers at their shop. I commented, "Just try searching tho…

When .NET 2.0 was released, a TryParse() method was added to many value types such as Int32, DataTime, etc. This was a huge improvement because there was no longer a need to catch expensive excepti…

In this issue: Jonas Follesø, Koen Zwikstra, Jeff Wilcox, Andy Beaulieu, Jaime Rodriguez, James Bacon, Terence Tsang, and Chris Hay

The following table summarizes the differences between different Server OS's capable of Hyper-V.

The post based on How to enable WCF tracing article Open WCF Service Configuration Editor under VS 2008 Tools menu or directly from installation folder (typically C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft SDKs\…

BizTalk Server 2006 R3 is now renamed to BizTalk Server 2009. BTS2006 R3 had considerable new features due to which Microsoft decided to make it as a major release and renamed it to BizTalk Server …

In this issue: Jeff Paries, Tim Heuer, Shawn Wildermuth, Mike Snow, Jesse Liberty, Terence Tsang, Bill Reiss, and Eugene Osovetsky.

For testing, I often use the InternalsVisibleTo for my unit tests. It looks like this: \[assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("MyProject.Domain.Tests")\] When the assembly is strongly typed, though, this s…

In this post: Mike Snow, Bill Reiss, Jesse Liberty, Harsh Bardhan, Tim Heuer, Matthias Shapiro, and Jeff Wilcox

In this issue: Laurence Moroney, Corrina Barber, Adam Kinney, Matthias Shapiro, Terence Tsang, Chris Hay, Martin Grayson, and Pete Brown.

If you're in the Bristol area and want to hear a real software development pro speak about writing software fit to publish, then get along to the DotNetDevNet .NET user group on Monday the 13th of …

The news took the community by surprise and the reactions are overwhelmingly positive: Microsoft is going to ship jQuery with the ASP.NET MVC framework (very soon) and with Visual Studio (in a near…

Boyan Mihaylov on SL/Amazon, David Hyde with SL Stock Portfolio, Chris Anderson with SL LOB app, Jesse Liberty on Content Presenter and Isolated Storage, Shawn Burke on ExpandoHeaderControl, Brad A…

Bart Czernicki on RC0, Bill Reiss on RC0 Text, Shawn Wildermuth on WebClient, Expression Blend Team with DZ Templates, Matthias Shapiro on Generic.xaml, Jeff Handley on Property Changed Events, Ter…

Activities are the blocks with which a workflow is build. Every activity developed for the ready-made workflows used in SharePoint, Office Designer, and those which are self-developed, are all done…

Ed Silverton with 3D Flickr Photo, A gaggle of Silverlight Developers blogging about RC0, and Bill Reiss with a fix for RC0 not working.

Jeff Handley on Layout Cycle and ContentPresenter gotchas, Pete Brown on VSM Styles and SL2 RTM, Bill Reiss with Cleaner Game Loop, Matthias Shapiro with Zooming Buttons and Color Picker, Expressio…

Matthieu Laban with 3D graphics, Denis opens "SilverlightBooks", Tim Heuer on the mouse wheel, Koen Zwikstra on Custom Controls, Manish Dalal on Attached Properties, Terence Tsang with Random Movin…

Tim Heuer on Isolated Storage, Dan Wahlin Animating Clipping Paths, Mike Snow on Fonts and TextBlocks, Terence Tsang with "Stray Sheep", and Lee on MouseWheel in ScrollViewer and DataTemplate contr…