When trying to add a diagram to an SQL Server 2005 db I got the following error: Database diagram support objects cannot be installed because this…

I like Code Metrics. They give a certain “objective” evaluation of a piece of code. You can use it for yourself just to make it pinpoint potential trouble…

Entity Framework 4.0 Resources – documentation links, best blog posts and more \[Initual release 22nd Sept 2009\] \[Updated 23rd Sept, with links from…

I was thinking about the level of programming abilities lately, as we are starting to interview for an open position. I thought, “Wouldn’t it be nice if…

Finding handle leaks in all processes at once for all handle types without a debugger is no longer impossible. Since Windows 8.1 (0?) each handle creation…

Many times we would like to export our page as an Excel sheet, Word doc or PDF file. This can be simply achieved by changing the ContentType of the…

One of the most common questions I get about FTP has to do with error 425, “Can’t open data connection.” This is indeed a protocol level error that is…

The DLR was introduced in .NET 4 to allow dynamic languages, like Python or Ruby, to run on the CLR. The DLR is also used by C# 4, released at the same…

! 1\. Introduction This posting is a continuation from the previous post on Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF). If you are a new to MEF you will need…

All of us have probably written code like this: Foo f = new Foo(); And what could be simpler? As long as the logic in the constructor is simple (or better…

Two weeks ago I had had a talk with Wang Tao, a C# MVP in China who is currently running his startup company and product named worktile. He asked me to…

For the last newsletter I wrote a brief article describing what design patterns were and the educational benefits that they can have as they are…

For Issue 900, I wanted to do another “best of” and it’s a little tricky. I can’t do best of from 800 to 900 because it will be heavily weighted to the…

CLR Profiler is a free and incredibly useful tool offered by Microsoft. I’m fairly certain its primary use (at least from Microsoft’s perspective) is to…

Here is something interesting that came up a newsgroup thread a little while ago, that I though merited some more explanation.

Back in February we did our first special edition of the UK MSDN Flash focused on Free Software for developers (Which was our most popular edition for…

You might receive the error ‘Sys’ is undefined when running ASP.NET AJAX Web pages or trying to AJAX enable your exisitng Web Applicaitons.

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I’m currently working on broadening the content in the Windows Azure Service Bus Developer Guide. One of the features I have been looking at over the past…

This is post is meant to be a more straightforward overview of my previous post. The previous post got a little long and turned into a walthrough. If you…