Did you ever want a feature but the system got in your way? In my case I wanted to to get the last thrown exception outside of any catch block. Be warned that this is a deep dive into the guts of t…

Once again we delve into the world of C# Fundamentals. Those hints and gotchas that tend to bite folks newer to the language. Today I take another look about the differences between const and reado…

OK, Lots of confusion around this pattern. I am also trying to wrap my head around this pattern and wanted to present what I have learned so far as well as my favorite links on the subject. I’m als…

I’ve decided to begin a line of back-to-basics blogs that I hope to post regularly. I used to teach C++ Programming, Algorithms, and Data Structures courses at Webster University in the evenings he…

\UPDATE 26th July: A Japanese version of the book is now [available on slideshare\]

I have recently been having discussions with some of the guys from our Ops Team about the GAC and BizTalk. One of the things they had observed was that when we upgraded some of our BizTalk applicat…

5: CREATE TABLE #Results (ColumnName nvarchar(370), ColumnValue nvarchar(3630))

When Microsoft rolled out Visual Studio 2010 with C# 4, I was very excited to learn how I could apply all the new features and enhancements to help make me and my team more productive developers.

In this Issue: Zoltan Arvai, Emiel Jongerius, Charles Petzold, Adam Kinney, Deepesh Mohnani, Timmy Kokke, and Damon Payne. Shoutouts: Andy Beaulieu reported his Coding4Fun: Shuffleboard Game for WP…

I tried writing a post for this blog last night, while at the this year’s Microsoft Tech Ed and Business Intelligence conferences, in New Orleans. But I literally fell asleep while writing it. That…

BizTalk 2009 - The Community ODBC Adapter: Receive Location

Moved to http://blog.ehn.nu/2010/06/08/tfs-2010-build-dealing-with-the-api-restriction-error/

When you work with the ApplicationBar in Windows Phone 7, you notice very fast that it is not quite a component like the others. For example, the ApplicationBarIconButton element is not a dependenc…

In addition to my automated unit, system and integration tests for ASP.NET projects, I like to give my customers something pretty that they can look at and visually see that the web site is behavin…

Multiline Replacement With Visual Studio

In Chapter 10 of the book on SQL Azure (http://www.apress.com/book/view/9781430229612) I am co-authoring, I am digging deeper in what it takes to write a Shard. It's actually a pretty cool exercise…

Being a development team lead, the task of interviewing new candidates was part of my job. Like any typical interview, we started with some easy questions to get them warmed up and help calm their …

For those who are familiar with the VirtualPC, vmWare and VirtualBox environments will be quite irritated to find out, in Hyper-V, there is no direct way to share files from the Host machine to the…

BizTalk 2009 - Messages: Last 100 Received

Having previously talked about the lack of the traditional HAT in BizTalk 2009, the question then becomes how do you replicate some of the functionality that was previsouly relied on?