Recently I have started working with VS2010 and Fx4. There have been various challenges. We also introduced a new Database Project in our solution. And…

It’s been more than a month since SharePoint 2010 RTMed. And a lot of people have downloaded and set up their very own SharePoint 2010 development rigs.…

On fairly regular intervals a question on Stackoverflow like this one: Silverlight Bind to inverse of boolean property value appears. The same answers…

In Chapter 10 of the book on SQL Azure I am co-authoring, I am digging deeper in what it takes to write a Shard. It's actually a pretty cool exercise, and…

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…

In this Issue: Phil Middlemiss, Max Paulousky, Jeff Wilcox, David Anson, René Schulte, Xianzhong Zhu, Jeff Handley, John Papa, Jeremy Likness, and Marlon…

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In this Issue: Miroslav Miroslavov, Victor Gaudioso, Phil Middlemiss, Jonathan van de Veen, Lee, and Domagoj Pavlešic.

Exception Handling Differences Between 32/64 Bit I do quite a bit of debugging .NET applications but from time to time I see things that are impossible…

\, but since it isn’t possible to leave this as a comment on his blog it’s a post here.\] There are many different ways to implement the Dispose pattern…

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BizTalk 2009 - Messages: Last 100 Sent Having previously talked about the lack of the traditional HAT in BizTalk 2009, the question then becomes how do…

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In this Issue: Victor Gaudioso, Weidong Shen, SilverLaw, Alnur Ismail, Damon Payne, and Karl Erickson. Shoutout:

Before you continue reading this post, a suggestion; if you haven’t read “Programming Windows Phone 7 Series” by Charles Petzold, go read it. Now. If you…