A few days ago I wrote about issues I was having with Mage and click once. Basically, I was always getting the following when I'd try to install the click once application:

Well, I blogged about Visual Studio 2008 and have just started a series on Whats new in Visual Studio 2008 for Web Developers. However, I also wanted to write on ASP.NET 3.5 which is released along…

I had to spent more time than I wished I would spend last weekend trying to find a RegEx that would validate US and Canadian postal codes for me. So here for the record, are the regular expression …

Gravatar wow that completely sucks. I would be furious!! I'm going to forward this on to some of my buddies at MS. This needs to be fixed. 12/3/2007 12:10 PM | Chris Williams(javascript:doPostBack\…

The recent release of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Fx 3.5 is causing some confusion. Microsoft released these two technologies together for good reason. The wonderful new LinQ technologies introduce…

I am testing the Mozy backup service that was praised by many lately. It's not bad so far, but I am a bit disappointed that it doesn't work when I am either in the office, or connected to the VPN. …

How To: Reset Identity column in SQL Server

I just read the post by Paul Vick, which challenges conventional wisdom by offering some evidence that VB.NET is more popular than C#. The VB.NET vs C# flame war that ensued in the comment section …

 With the SubText 1.9.5 update, the team fixed the i…

Spent the weekend so far using the new release of Visual Studio 2008 and ASP.NET AJAX. More specifically, I have been using the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit. Adding the new controls to your VS2008 …

I've seen a few things going around about this so I'd like to put in my .02c too.

I've been involved in a lengthy discussion recently at work involving the IDisposable implementation in WCF clients.

There is an interesting thing that happens when you use Reporting Services 2005. You find that sometimes things don't quite work like you want them to and you don't know why. Such as sorting on a b…

Problem After restoring DB in SQL Server 2005 db most of the time I get the following error: Database diagram support objects cannot be installed because this database does not have a valid owner. …

The BIDS Helper team are please to announce the release of v1.2.

John McGovern and Robert Mcilree have fired off the latest salvo in one of EA's biggest and most maddening debates. In short the debate is about whether Enterprise Architecture is a process or prac…

You are all undoubtedly aware of LINQ to SQL, its fair to say its had a large amount of publicity and coverage in the .net circle. VS 2008 makes getting going with LINQ to SQL very easy but that is…

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Dru first introduced me to ted.com the notion of the "Big Think", but I had forgotten about the site until I saw a link to one of the site's presentations referenced in one of Ayende's recent posts.

Software development is complicated. Everyone has their own opinion on how it should be approached and from time to time you get little clusters of folks that follow the same mantra, whether it be …