November 2007 - Posts
I often write queries in SQL Server Management Studio to find different bits of information about which I am curious. This is quite easy and I discover a lot of useful and interesting things this way. You might ask why I am writing this blog post. I'll
Read More...
I have a few friends in college who are learning C# on the side. I've been answering their questions when they ask. One interesting question was regarding access modifiers. I was asked which access modifiers are used by default in certain situations when
Read More...
Recently I've started using CodeRush™ with Refactor!™ Pro after being defeated in a programming competition at DevConnections by Sarah (a hired model) at the DevExpress booth. There should be two recordings of my painful defeat. Steve Smith made one and
Read More...
There are plenty of AJAX tools being used everyday. The AJAX Control Toolkit can be likened to a pack of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans ; there are far too many choices. Some tools you'll love and some are as useless to you as an earwax flavored bean.
Read More...
Earlier today I downloaded IronPython, and I've tested it out a little bit. The command line interpreter is nice and works pretty painlessly whether you are compiling the source or just executing the binaries. Python is a great language IMHO. Just like
Read More...
In my attempt to add to the monotony, I'll say that not long ago Visual Studio 2008 was released to all of the MSDN subscribes. With the news spreading so quickly the downloads are all taking forever. Good luck! Scott Guthrie , as usual, posted some good
Read More...
I've recently come across a large number of blog posts talking about a new Rich Text Editor on CodePlex released under the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL). Some of the blog posts talking about this interesting control can be found here , here , here
Read More...
While I was at DevConnections last week, I watched an interesting demo showing off Visual Studio's extensibility. In the demo the visual studio shell is being used to edit Lua script; the scripting language used by World of Warcraft for designing custom
Read More...
A couple of weeks ago Steve Smith and I released SimpleCMS as an open source project on CodePlex . SimpleCMS is, as the name suggests, a Simple Content Management System. It is a small ASP.NET 2.0 Plug-in which allows dynamic creation of simple pages.
Read More...
One of the most important parts of software development is memory management. Memory management is important for every software application. If one is to write a well developed software application, one must have a fair bit of knowledge in the area of
Read More...
Temporary tables and table variables can be used in pretty much the same way. One question which is asked, "Which one is better". To answer that it is important to understand a few of the differences between the two. Once we understand how these two types
Read More...