Updated 29th June 2013: Microsoft is now previewing Load Test Service in TFS Service. Please check out more on the official offering by navigating to…

I’m a huge fan of the St. Louis .NET User Group and a regular attendee of their meetings, but always wished there was a local group that discussed more…

(this is the second part; for the first part, see Creating large SharePoint structures from Powershell and xml)

In a previous post I outlined how we can create a site structure in SharePoint from some xml. Let us expand on that example a bit, and show how we can…

Resource Acquisition Is Initialization (RAII) is a pattern I grew to love when working in C++. It is perfectly suited for resource management such as…

Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP) is a principle of object oriented programming that many might be familiar with from the SOLID principles mnemonic from…

So about three years ago, around the time of my last blog post, I promised a friend I would write this post. Keeping promises is a good thing, and this is…

Leaving aside why you would ever want to do this in a touch-centric world, here's how you tell if the right-mouse button has been clicked on a GridView in…

So you want to know more about development for Window 8. Great! There are lots of reasons you should be excited about this. Since I don’t know why YOU are…

In Windows 8, Touch is, as they say, a first class citizen. Now, to be honest: they also said that in Windows 7. However in Win8 this is actually true.…

WMemoryProfiler is Released What is it? is a managed profiling Api to aid integration testing. This free library can get managed heap statistics and…

Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to…

The first search on this error yielded some blog posts that says to check SQL server version. It suggested that I couldn't deploy a SSAS project…

This blog post has moved: http://gruffcode.com/2012/06/21/using-table-valued-parameters-with-sql-server-reporting-services/

After getting the cube to successfully deploy and process on Friday, I was baffled on Monday that the newly added dimension caused the cube processing to…

Distributed version control systems (VCS’s), like Git, provide a rich set of features for managing source code. Many development tools, including XCode,…

Caching is a popular topic when we are building a high performance and high scalable system not only on top of the cloud platform but the on-premise…

So this is the fourth blog post about the new features of Windows Azure and the second part of Windows Azure Web Sites. But this is not just focus on the…

This blog post has moved: http://gruffcode.com/2012/06/13/using-table-valued-parameters-in-sql-server/

Lots of test code gets written, a lot of it is waste, some of it is well engineered waste. Companies hire Agile Engineering Coaches because agile…