The Code To Live video starts with an All-Girl AC/DC cover band. I'm not really sure what else you need to know. Steve Loethen is a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft here in Kansas City (or some such related job -- I never really remember what he does). We used…
MSDN has one of the better articles I've read on LINQ: The Evolution Of LINQ And Its Impact On The Design Of C#. It really helped to see the design history to understand why things are the way they are. Very good article.…
I posted the source code for my SQL Server 2005 object scripting tool. The code reads like something I threw together to see if I could really do this. Because that's what it is. You can read a prior post that describes a little of what it does. The ClickOnce…
After working with SQL Server 2005 I've discovered that I can't script out one object per file and include both the DROP and CREATE in the same file. Which is driving me absolutely crazy! So I wrote a little utility and thought I'd share it. If you'd…
I had a previous post about automatic bug reporting using FogBugz 3.0. I recently upgraded to FogBugz 4.0 so I had to go through the process of setting this up again. (You can read the previous post to see why I did it this way.) …
I've updated my NAnt tasks to 0.94 (source and binary). I've added three new tasks. The first is a task to load an Excel spreadsheet into a SQL Server table. We've found this to be a fair way to manage code tables. They're easy to edit and print out…
In my long tradition of releasing odd utilities (ok, utility) that no one but me uses I think I've come up with a winner. On one of my projects we've created an extensive database build process using NAnt. This process creates the database with all its objects and runs a…
That has to be most cumbersome title I've ever used but it describes what I'm doing. We recently started using FogBUGZ for our bug and inquiry tracking for a couple of applications we've developed. We're running it on a server behind a firewall. FogBUGZ gives you a…
Here's a great little tool that helps you write a simple multi-threaded app. It gives you an easy way to move certain tasks to a background thread. Neat idea! Now I can move much of the database stuff to a background thread on one of the apps I'm working on.…
MSDN has an article about some of the new features in C#/Whidbey. It's a pretty neat article that talks about the language enchancements and new features in Visual Studio. I'm most interested in Generics and Partial Types at this point. Generics will give me an…