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In this issue: Maurice de Beijer, Jesse Liberty(2), Corey Schuman, Mike Snow, Tim Heuer, and Radenko Zec. Shoutouts:

In this issue: Martin Mihaylov, Radenko Zec, Terence Tsang, Mike Snow, and Shawn Wildermuth. Shoutout: Walt Ritscher has his latest Reflecting on Design…

In this first stage of our Tour de BCL, we will be passing through the new Barrier class. So what is a Barrier? Let’s take a look at the ~boring~…

In this issue: Jesse Liberty and Nigel Sampson. Shoutout: Adam Kinney has a post up about all the Microsoft product groups on Twitter:, and thanks for the…

Just a clarification of my comment on a recent release of VirtualBox supporting 64 bit guests on 32 bit hosts. This is NOT a solution for a system which…

In this issue: Ken Cox, Damon Payne, Dean Chalk, Colin Eberhardt, and Jesse Liberty. Shoutouts: David Anson has the ultimate collection of articles on…

C# 4.0 Optional Parameters One of the new language features coming in C# 4.0 is Optional Parameters. In large part, this is due to Microsoft’s plan of…

Defining the build set A build set is a set of builds running on the same solution or set of solutions, catering for different aspects of the Continuous…

Win7 Microsoft today announced the new product line for Windows 7. In some ways the new Windows 7 product line follows the same ideas of Windows Vista,…

In this issue: Boyan Mihaylov, Matthias Shapiro, Page Brooks, Dave Britton, Jesse Liberty, and Jobi Joy. Shoutouts:

There’s an old joke about an engineer called out of retirement by a company in trouble: their most vital machine has stopped working, and nothing they…

In my last post I talked about migrating from NUnit to MSTest and mentioned that there were some Assert methods that NUnit provided which did not have…

I have been writing a lot of unit tests over the past month using the Microsoft Test (MSTest) unit testing framework that is now part of Visual Studio…

This week I was tasked with styling a data table so that all the rows would scroll vertically, but the header row would stay in place. For the project in…

I don't have any post relating to how I get to know computers in general and why I choose a career in software development, in fact I needed to do that,…

\Source: [https://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman\] If you're debugging Web service calls, you may want to capture incoming requests so you can see…

Here's a really quick tip: how to convert a DataTable to CSV, and write it dynamically to the response stream.

Scenario/History There is a bug in our Premise Utility that causes streetid’s to be set to 0 whenever the an existing premise record is saved. StreetId’s…

Does that title make sense? I don't know if it does, but I can't think of another description for this problem. If anyone can think of a better title I…