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Friday, February 22, 2008 10:30 AM

Use Unit Test Framework to Test Production DB Consistency

For Lake Quincy Media 's AdSignia Ad Server, I wanted to be able to ensure that the database had some internal logic rules checked periodically. What kinds of rules? Well, probably an example would be best. Suffice to say up front, though, that we're
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Thursday, January 03, 2008 3:36 PM

Fall DevConnections Session Comments

I've been speaking at the DevConnections conferences since Fall of 2001 and have really enjoyed the experience. The speakers are a great group of people to hang out with, Shirley and Erik and Paul and the rest of the team put together a very well-organized
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Friday, December 14, 2007 11:03 AM

Holiday Skins for .NET Controls

As the end of year holiday season approaches, it's fairly common for some web sites and products to re-skin their logos and applications to make them a little more festive or seasonal. Google has long been known for their creative variations of their
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007 8:46 PM

Learn VS 2008 and .NET 3.5

Guy pointed out a great resource for learning the newly released Visual Studio 2008 for free: the Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit , from Microsoft. To quote the site: The Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit includes
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 8:53 AM

Developer Acronyms for 2007

I've learned a few new acronyms this year and thought I'd start this post to let others share their favorites as well. Some of these are new to me, and some are classics that I thought were worth including even though they certainly predate 2007. Where
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Monday, November 05, 2007 4:15 PM

VS2008 Shipping November 2007

It's official now - Microsoft has announced that it will ship Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 later his month, November 2007 . The announcement came earlier today at TechEd Developers in Barcelona, Spain. I expect a similar announcement
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Sunday, November 04, 2007 6:54 PM

DevExpress TechSummit

I'm in Vegas a few days early (before DevConnections ) to attend DevExpress's TechSummit2007, where they've invited a bunch of MVPs, authors, speakers, etc. to come and learn more about their controls and tools. Yesterday we saw some of what
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 5:35 PM

Check if Unique Constraint will be violated before Insert with LLBLGen

I needed to determine if a unique constraint would be violated so that I could programmatically update the Name of a business object to make it unique today. I use LLBLGen for this project's database layer, and I have a unique constraint (actually a unique
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 3:30 PM

Limit Rows In DataTable or DataSet

I wrote some quick and dirty ADO.NET code to go against an RSS feed instead of a flat XML file today. In the process I had to figure a way to limit the number of rows returned by the function, which returns a DataTable. The simplest method I found was
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Monday, October 29, 2007 11:40 PM

Silverlight Detection and Installation

Tim Sneath just posted some tips for optimizing the Silverlight install experience for your site's end users. I've noticed many people on mailing lists and forums discussing (lamenting) the fact that Silverlight's install process requires the user to
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Monday, October 29, 2007 11:49 AM

One Week to DevConnections

The Fall 2007 DevConnections conference is next week in Las Vegas. This is definitely going to be the biggest conference in the United States for developers for the second half of 2007 (TechEd being the only larger one this year, I think), and I'm sure
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Monday, October 29, 2007 9:53 AM

TFS Beta 2 VPCs Expire November First

In case you haven't seen this news from last Friday, the TFS Beta 2 Virtual PC images have an operating system timebomb in them that is set to expire on 1 November 2007 . This is not, however, the end of the world if you have been using these builds for
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007 1:33 PM

Sharing Resources Between Projects in .NET

ASP.NET has some great support for Resources (for localization and internationalization, mainly), but unfortunately by default they're limited to the same project because they're generated with the internal keyword. I wanted to be able to share common
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007 12:46 PM

Open Source .NET in 3.5

ScottGu just made a very exciting announcement - as of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5, the base class libraries will ship with source and debug symbols ! What this means to developers is we'll no longer need to resort to tools like Reflector to see what
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Wednesday, September 05, 2007 11:38 AM

Managing XSD Files - if you must have them

For an admin application I've been working on, we're using a third party reporting tool to serve up reports to our users over the Internet. The reports have a nice designer that works with XSD files in Visual Studio. Not particularly fond of XSDs as a
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