We all know not all browsers support all HTML5 and CSS3 features at this moment. Modernizr comes to rescue here for all Sites that want to use rich HTML5…

StyleCop 4.7.35.0 has been released has been released at Here are the release notes: Compatible with the Visual Studio 2012 RC (with updates to…

The Truth About.NET Objects And Sharing Them Between AppDomains I have written already some time ago how big a.NET object is. John Skeet as also made a…

In this the next few lines, I will be providing a review of the last of Itzik Ben-Gan et al’s “Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008” series. This last book…

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…

I had an interesting meeting with a team that is currently facing some challenges getting work done. After working with them for a few days a major issue…

Mutexes, Semaphores, Monitors, ReaderWriterLocks, AutoResetEvents & ManualResets oh my! Up until a few years ago, mainstream programming for the most part…

I have posted before on how to implement dependency replication using TFS Build, once for TFS 2008 using MSBuild and then for TFS 2010 using Windows…

16,000 Microsoft Partners are attending our annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) this week in Toronto, and the atmosphere is absolutely buzzing with…

SQL Saturday #150–Louisiana Region If you are in the region of Baton Rouge, LA on August 4th and are looking for some great fun, be sure to stop by SQL…

I've tried porting NLog to Metro-style/WinRT a couple of times, and I've surrendered both times within hours of starting. The problem with NLog is that…

What’s Anonymous Access? Anonymous access to your SharePoint site enables all visitors to view your SharePoint site anonymously without having to log in.

If you've never been a fan of then skip this post. However, if have been there have been some interesting developments over the last couple of years.

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I recently started trying out CoffeeScript only to find out that it caused more headaches. The abstraction level of jQuery was perfect, it did not dictate…

In the past few weeks, I have been reading “Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Querying” by Itzik Ben-Gan et al. In the next few lines, I will be…

In this blog post I’ll show you how you can play back the IIS Logs in Visual Studio to automatically generate the web performance tests. You can also…

On Twitter, Matthias Jauernig commented that . I was relaxed about this and wrote back that it was related to sandboxing implying it was a "good thing",…

Update (1/19/2013): This doesn't work anymore and there's a better way to perform OAuth with LINQ to Twitter on Windows 8. Please see WinRtAuthorizer–A…

If you can’t get to a conference, let the conference come to you! There are a ton of free recorded conference presentations online…