I've hit the same problem again. I've already wrote 2 posts about the error "Exception Details: System.InvalidOperationException: ObjectDataSource 'ods' could not find a non\-generic method 'Update…

I only recently became aware of another breaking change in ASP.NET 2.0: In order to optimize session state management, some changes have been implemented. One of the most puzzling ones when you're …

I wanted to give my take on developer metrics. I’ve read some posts by a few people out there (here, here, here, and here) that suggest that developer specific metrics do more harm than good. The f…

Best Practices Not Followed - Zune Player And A German Windows XP

Authentication is necessary to almost every application. ASP.NET brings different Authentication Providers to make the authentication process easier. Among them, Forms-based authentication is the m…

So those of you who have Vista will be well aware of the sidebar, some may love it, some may not see the point! Personally I like it; I think from a developer’s perspective it opens some great poss…

It is a nice city for visiting and ah ... not only nice but also a exciting place for the tourist. The main attracrion of Venice's nature is dual: water and land

In my last post ViewState and Dynamic Control, I mentioned that ViewStateModeByIdAttribute.aspx) can be used to change the default behavior of how ASP.NET finds the controls when ViewState data res…

I don't know about you, but I have always felt that Microsoft did a huge injustice to the development community by leaving the Static Code Analysis capability out of Visual Studio 2005 Professional…

I thought I understand ViewState, until I came cross this exception:

You cannot use get-credential without some type of prompt (although you can do it without the pop-up dialog), however you can save your securestring password to a file, reload it for later, and man…

Everybody knows that you need to use a custom pipeline to debatch an XML file, where you use a custom XML disassembler pipeline component to specify the Envelop schema and Document schema.

I was recently introduced to the concept of XFN through a blog post I was reading from Phil Haack regarding his meeting with Rob Conery, one of the Subsonic developers.

I had someone ask today how to format a date in xslt 1.0. I thought it was worth posting the answer I gave. I hope you find it useful. It's amazing how many lines of code it takes for this, but it'…

For sometime now I have been working on a few papers on the subject of SOA. This is the first, my definitive definition of what is SOA Governance.

Over the past year I have been evaluating numerous third-party web controls. There are two companies at the top of the list: ComponentArt and Telerik. I have never been a big fan of using third-par…

My post is a little late in coming, but I wanted to note that MS AJAX was recently released. Thanks to Scott Guthrie and the entire ASP.Net team for getting this out. I am certain I will be writing…

I enjoy coming across and reading every now and then. He has posted free tools up on his site and his indepth articles are also invaluable (one of my favorites was one he wrote back in 2005 on ASP.…

UPDATE (12/17/2007): My blog has moved. This post is now located at:

As I jump back into some SQL Server development, I've come across a couple things that I wish were features in SQL Server.