Thanks to Virtual PC's inability to utilize USB (insert the 'Old Bit' siren sound) and my need for USB support in my virtual machines, I'm in the process of moving some VPC images to VMWare Worksta…

I've been reading lately about what people are interested in with the next version of C#. It's amazing to think how far the language has come from the early days. Many of the newer features of the …

While working on an application I faced the following error when trying to submit changes to the database using DLINQ:

I've suspected this for years, but the proof is starting to show up.

When creating my unit tests, I've been a big believer in the Object Mother pattern for creating state for my immutable value objects. Basically, I need to put the objects in a valid state in the co…

I've encountered a problem trying fix the WCF / WPF Visual Studio 2005 Integration components after I've installed Visual Studio 2008.

Update: Adding Visual Studio Integration discussion Update: Stay tuned for additional posts in this series as things permit Well, this is my last post in the series to wrap things up. This will be …

The PUT method not as widely used as the POST method is the more efficient way of uploading files to a server. This is because in a POST upload the files need to be combined together into a multipa…

This may be old news for some, but Firefox v2.0 does not support the display style "inline-block". I've read several blogs and articles on the subject, most of them suggesting using "-moz-inline-bl…

Now, this is freaking awesome. Testing your ASP.NET pages using Ruby code. I used to test my ASP.NET pages using NUnitASP which was pretty decent. But, I am not sure what happened after I installed…

 This is the first month I have been involved with submitt…

I've been running Vista on my work laptop since the first quarter of this year and on my development system at home since August. So far, I haven't had too many problems with it. Actually, on my ho…

Linq - Handle Insert/Update/Delete of child entity in tiered application

I just saw this challenge to find real life examples of agile development by Tom Perry. He was hanging Christmas lights and found a way to incorporate test driven development (TDD) and continuous i…

Be mindful of your DataContext's "context"

Advanced Windows Debugging got me hooked onto Detours and that led me to experiment with it a bit more. It resulted in this. Over the past three days, I have been working on using Detours to build …

Linq - Attach an entity that is not new, perhaps having been loaded from another DataContext.

Partial methods are a new feature available in C# 3.0 that don't seem to get enough credit. I think there was a lot of confusion early on about what partial methods were and how they were used.

I know I just mentioned this project yesterday, but I wanted to thank those of you who have already downloaded it. Hopefully you have found it useful so far. I have already updated the project for …

Up until recently, I had never heard of a volatile registry key. I cam across a post by Daniel Moth that presents an extension method that adds support for both .NET and NETCF. While I haven't look…