One of my first Windows applications was an Access 2.0 database. Man has Access changed since then! Recently one of my customers needed to be able to source control some of their Access 2003 databa…

When browsing around the net today, I realized that I had never claimed this blog as my own on Technorati. I claimed the old Vitamin CH, but never this one. When I went to do it, I saw that the pro…

So far, I have only one style which I'm currently using on all my buttons, and to be honest, I'm still working on it, but it's been in a pretty stable state of development for a while now, so I tho…

\Update Oct ‘09 In response to a number of comments on this post regarding problems with this approach, I’ve added a new [blog entry with more details. Check it out.\]

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I've recently come into several Certification Exam Vouchers and have decided to host a giveaway. Just post a comment to the blog, and I'll randomly select a winner. All entries must be in by June 3…

I wondered a while ago where the "Iron" names came from.

Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2008 and Authenticated SMTP - A Travesty

Code debugging is one of the most important parts of any development life cycle because it gives you the technique to find the problem and how to resolve it. When we talk about the visual debugging…

We came across an odd little issue where our message schema requires a DateTime value. Using System.DateTime.Now does not come out in the proper format as BizTalk requires the UTC format. UTC forma…

Announced today were the new features for the next OS version release for the Mac OS X – 10.6 – code named Snow Leopard. Each of the previous seven released over the last eight years since OS X was…

So you have installed SharePoint (WSS or MOSS) and you have been happily using it for a while now. Everyone in the office has been taking part in creating some really cool content or loading their …

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I tried to use SlickEdit 2008 this morning for formatting my SilverlightCream post, and had problems.

<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="border: 1px inset ;" class="alt2">...legacy code is simply code without tests. - <strong>Working Effectivly with…

Moq is yet another .NET mocking library, similar to Rhino mocks, NMock, TypeMock etc. It is a nice library but the documentation is lacking. The purpose of this post is to demonstrate a simple way …


What tech books are you currently reading? The rules: 1) Don't count books you're being compensated to read. (paid reviews) 2) Don't count books that haven't come out yet (i.e. tech editing, or wri…

A new preview of the ASP.NET Dynamic Data Web Site was made available on April 23, 2008. Some new nice features for Dynamic Data Wizard and routed URLs were included in this release. The Visual Bas…