A couple of days ago I was asked if there was any way by which I could overload a method to "return" more than one type. If I was in a class room, or I was teaching a programming class (I've done t…

Working on a DotNetNuke Project we had a requirement which was pretty .NET'ish and had nothing to do with DotNetNuke. All we wanted to do was to store a Generic list of <T> in the view state - wher…

A couple of days ago I was asked if there was any way by which I could overload a method to "return" more than one type. If I was in a class room, or I was teaching a programming class (I've done t…

A Few days ago I had a discussion with a person from our creative team who informed me about (and liked) the fact that in MAC you could just zoom in and magnify any part of your screen in real-time…

One of the thoughts I've been considering recently with chocolatey is consistency with packages and naming conventions as chocolatey continues to grow. It's fine to name packages by the app/tool na…

I present at a lot of the local Florida code camps (and some out of state ones as well) and have a presentation that focuses on understanding Lambda expressions in .NET. This is not an exhaustive l…

I've blogged in the past about Community Credit and really love the site. As a 5 time Community Credit winner, I just received the email today (although I actually knew about it over the weekend) t…

Using dynamic SQL inside a procedure called by BizTalk as a strongly typed procedure through the WCF-SQL adapter can be very tricky.

I and a few others were on on a call with Microsoft Consulting (India) who were giving us a presentation on SharePoint 2007. Interestingly the consultant said that the Beta is good for deployment a…

Hi All, just wanted to point out a teensy weensy but maybe very useful tip. It might be outdated information if you are using SharePoint 2010, but if you are using SharePoint 2007 then you might fi…

Release Notes – http://tfsdemosetup.codeple... | Download | Source Code | Report a Bug | Ideas Just pushed out the 2nd release of the TFS Demo setup on CodePlex, below a quick look at some of the n…

Class to implement manual updates in ClickOnce applications. With one line of code, you can asynchronously update your applications

In my previous post I described my feeling on why it is so critically important to develop a good user story. However I didn’t go into much detail on how that is done. I’m going to cover that in th…

The first thing to do is create the class that will serve as the source for the aggregation. The class that we add will implement four key methods: Init, Accumulate, Merge, and Terminate. It will b…

I thought I would share what took me embarrassingly long to figure out on my own, how to add paging to a nested grid view using a DataSourceControl. Specifically, I am targeting LinqDataSource beca…

In the world of software development, particularly when dealing with REST APIs, two HTTP methods often spark debates and confusion: PUT and PATCH. This educational piece aims to demystify these met…

In May 2004, Microsoft published a whitepaper entitled ‘Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 Performance Characteristics’ (MBTS-PC04)[\[1\]](https://geekswithblogs.net/cyoung/admin/EditArticles.aspx#ftn1)…