By default, when a stand-alone instance of Microsoft SQL Server exists in a cluster environment, the SQL Server-based instance is set to start…

I am sure everyone else has already figured this out but thought I'd jot it down here. I wanted to isolate all messages being sent from NHibernate to its…

In this article, I have assumed that the reader is aware of the basic functionality of Subversion. This article has been written to make the usage of…

I have had trouble in the past when installing the Exchange System Manager (ESM) on my laptop so I can modify email information about a user in Active…

Have you ever wondered why instance methods in java are virtual by default and in C# not? In C# to make a method virtual you have to explicitly do it…

Error: "exhausted the network retry attempts" Do you have over 50 receive locations that you use for Biztalk 2004/2006. Have you ever found them disabled…

. We just recorded a podcast at a Walmart and uploaded it. There is more CPU in this van than in most small offices.

Crystal Reports allow you to display the data in a formatted report style form. You can easily create Crystal Reports by adding the "New Item" from the…

Why doesn't ASP.NET 2.0 support the <optgroup> element? I don't know. But here's the solution for you, if you've been wishing it did.

I have been working in the area of Web services for some time and I am on a project where I needed to distribute some extremely large datasets to some…

Of course they could simply fix the questions by supplying the "A buzz word" answer for everything. Cynical? Me? The whole thing is painful, trying to…

A Few days ago I had a discussion with a person from our creative team who informed me about (and liked) the fact that in MAC you could just zoom in and…

Lazy Vs Eager Init Singletons / Double-Check Lock Pattern Singletons are the easiest programming pattern to learn which seems to be the reason why it is…

Besides being a DotNet developer I've spent some part of my life (3 odd months) in the past, being a Linux Administrator. Every guy in the Linux world…

I first read about Nullable Types around 6 months or so ago. Since I last heard about / used Nullable types, I had completely forgotten about the syntaxes…

A couple of days ago I was asked if there was any way by which I could overload a method to "return" more than one type. If I was in a class room, or I…

> public class Person { private string \name; public Person(string name) { this.Name = name; } public string Name { get { return this.\name; } set {…

I faced this problem while using NetTires which I highly recommend for anyone who wants to quickly generate a Data Access Layer using Microsoft Enterprise…

> Intent: Attach additional responsibilities to an object dynamically. Decorators provide a flexible alternative to subclassing for extending…

If anyone has any experience with MSBUILD and Mage.exe to build ClickOnce projects, please let me know if you might be able to help.