Linq - Handle Insert/Update/Delete of child entity in tiered application

I just saw this challenge to find real life examples of agile development by Tom Perry. He was hanging Christmas lights and found a way to incorporate test driven development (TDD) and continuous i…

USB + Drivers + Vista + x64 + "New Hardware Found" Install + KB941600 = Total USB Destruction... To completely screw up your USB ports/drivers in Vista x64, simply INSTALL this update through Windo…

Linq Table Attach() based on timestamp or row version

Doug Butscher and I were outside at the EOB today and we saw the coolest contrail (new word for me) from a jet I have seen. It steadily progressed to get more squiggly as we watched it. Check it out!

Validating user input is a very common task that we perform during web page development, and in the ASP.NET world we have a handful amount of choices to perform validation.

While trying out the /n software IP\Works! 3-D Secure MPI C++ Edition (for implementing Verified By Visa, MasterCard SecureCode, or JCB J/Secure) I needed to figure out how to run a CGI application…

After installing VS2008, I quickly noticed the absence of some of my favorite IDE helpers.

UPDATE (12/17/2007): My blog has moved. This post is now located at: http://jason.whitehorn.ws/2007/12/10/Using-ASPNET-MVC-From-Visual-Web-Developer-Express-2008.aspx Today marked the released of t…

A lot of times, I need to show or hide a textbox based the value of a checkbox.

A few days ago I wrote about issues I was having with Mage and click once. Basically, I was always getting the following when I'd try to install the click once application:

I had to spent more time than I wished I would spend last weekend trying to find a RegEx that would validate US and Canadian postal codes for me. So here for the record, are the regular expression …

Gravatar wow that completely sucks. I would be furious!! I'm going to forward this on to some of my buddies at MS. This needs to be fixed. 12/3/2007 12:10 PM | Chris Williams)

I am testing the Mozy backup service that was praised by many lately. It's not bad so far, but I am a bit disappointed that it doesn't work when I am either in the office, or connected to the VPN. …

I've been involved in a lengthy discussion recently at work involving the IDisposable implementation in WCF clients.

The BIDS Helper team are please to announce the release of v1.2.

John McGovern and Robert Mcilree have fired off the latest salvo in one of EA's biggest and most maddening debates. In short the debate is about whether Enterprise Architecture is a process or prac…

You are all undoubtedly aware of LINQ to SQL, its fair to say its had a large amount of publicity and coverage in the .net circle. VS 2008 makes getting going with LINQ to SQL very easy but that is…

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Dru first introduced me to ted.com the notion of the "Big Think", but I had forgotten about the site until I saw a link to one of the site's presentations referenced in one of Ayende's recent posts…