I got a request from a blog reader on the details of my certification journey:

I just passed the 8th and final test to become MS Certified. I got the MCSD.NET and MCAD.NET in both C# and VB.NET. I'm a contractor, so I didnt want to just get certified in one language, and if y…

I'd love to do a search and replace on a student's essay!

Yeah, that's kind of harsh, but it's how I feel after spending the past 4 hours trying to get the ADONetAppender to work.

"Triage" is a medical term. It refers to dividing wounded or sick people into three categories: those who will die no matter what you do, those who will recover even if unaided, and those who will …

The BizTalk Server 2004 FTP adapter offers a 'guaranteed delivery' feature, the details of which are not documented by Microsoft. The mechanism is very straightforward, however, and involves the us…

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Did anyone else read Kevin Smith’s blog on ACK/NACK and run out to try it? Well, I sure did and found it a little more time consuming then I expected. I have put together a sample that shows how to…

After spending some time with Reporting Services over the past couple weeks, I have noticed a few issues that I find rather odd, at least in my opinion.

This is always a point of confusion. I just wanted to take a second to get everyone on the same page since these properties are VERY important. If you are a solo developer or you have never renamed…

was launched today by and Devin Rader! It is like the blogs.msdn.com site that is really a finer aggregation of weblogs.asp.net. Blogs.ineta.org is a finer aggregation of www.geekswithblogs.net. En…

This feature/function can be handy from security point of view. links to a functionality in Windows XP SP2 that limits conncurrent TCP/IP connections. I vaguely remember reading some relating when …

Earlier I posted about the new Reuters RSS feeds that were made available on Reuters.com recently. These are news feeds which provide news headlines by category as well as the first sentence of the…

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Hopefully it is a joke, but according to TheServerSide.net, Clippy (from Office) is going to be apart of VS2005. HOPEFULLY if it is true, that it won't be enabled by default!

DRE is a measure to detect defects before delivery.It is calculated as a percentage of the defects identified and corrected internally with respect to the total defects in the complete project life…

A classic mistake in BizTalk is to think that you can control more than you really can through schemas. For example, although you can specify default values within a schema (say for a attribute val…

After a very long trip, a couple lay-overs, and a right plane engine that wouldn't start... We made it to brazil! We spent yesturday in Sao Paulo at the Ceasar, near the airport. The hotel was amaz…