Last winter, Ben Pearce put together a little PowerShell Cheat Sheet. I printed it out and I keep it handy at my desk. It occurred to me that a cheat sheet would be useful too, so I borrwed Ben's s…

Two months ago, after listening to .NET Rocks! show with Daniel Simmons, I was really curious to learn more about ADO.NET Entity Framework (EF). As part of my learning I was ready to write a tutori…

A little while back Martin sent me a question on some of the examples in Chapter 10 of our book . The point of the question was how to dynamically consume a WCF services (late bind) from C++ using …

During my talk on Garbage Collection in .NET at the Jacksonville Code Camp 2007, Joe Healy mentioned that I should take a look at the changes made to the GC in the .NET Framework 3.5 release. (This…

I ran into a crazy issue while working on my ASP.Net 2.0 application in Firefox this week and thought I'd share...

So imagine Microsoft releases a new patch for Windows Media Player. You install it and now you have the Zune software. How many people do you think would be pissed about that?

Google has several products available to educators that you might find of interest to use yourself or with your students.

I thought this is worth noting. This is the way to generate 1 million records within 1 second in SQL Server 2005. I'll have the code pasted here so that I can have a reference the next time I need …

Recently I had the need to change the logging level for all loggers due to the need to hit the logging statements for NCover. This was harder than it appeared, and I couldn't really find anything o…

Try this for size? and they are also extending the fuctionality of this to include off-line use as well based on the Google Gears project - more info on this development on their blog at http://blo…

Exception handling seems to be a common problem for .NET developers, particularly younger developers. We pretty much all know that you should wrap operations that have the potential for failing in …

It has been a while since I last posted, but I haven't stopped working:) I am currently on a project involving WPF and WCF. While I am not a big fan of WPF, but I quite like WCF.

At one time or another most of us have wished we could add functions to one of the intrinsic .NET classes. The solution has always been to either create a static (or sealed) class that contains the…

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C# 3.0 Lambda Expressions replacing Anonymous Methods

Greenfield design - should you use Terminal Server/Citrix or VMware's VDI?

! I don't regularly use desktop or web-based RSS feed aggregators for the fact that they take the content away from its context. It usually doesn't add much, but sometimes I can gauge things like p…

Vidas recently did a post about a couple of new features that will be available in SSAS 2008 (but that are not in the July CTP). One of which was DMVs (Data Management Views.

I’ve been asked a few times how the performance of WF (Windows Workflow Foundation) Rules compares with that of the Microsoft Business Rules Engine (MS BRE). Having done no testing, I could only gu…

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