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Should I abandon VB.Net?

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:40:19 GMT

Is VB.Net still worth using or should you switch now that you have a change.

Git, TortoiseGit, Github and the rest

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:15:52 GMT

Christiaan takes a look at getting up and running with Git and related tools from the point of view of wanting to gain access to the source code to an open source project hosted on GitHub.

MSDN Ultimate Subscription giveaway +1

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 07:52:20 GMT

Microsoft was kind enough to give me 3 MSDN Ultimate Subscriptions. I gave two of these away already, I have one left for the readers of Lessthandot.com.

comments Programatically create a sharepoint calendar entry

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:53:01 GMT

We recently had a requirement to programatically create an entry in an existing Sharepoint calendar, so here is an example of how we went about doing this. I'll be using Visual Studio 2008 for this, but the process will be similar for any other versions you are using. First of all, you will need to add a reference to one of the Sharepoint web references, so right-click your project and select Add Web Reference. You'll then be presented with a screen that asks you for a URL for that web service, so go ahead and write it in the following format:

Visual Studio 2010 Concurrency Profiling And Parallel Programming

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:19:09 GMT

A post about Visual Studio 2010 Concurrency Profiling And Parallel Programming, includes a video of the Concurrency Profiler reports

Validating Architecture with Visual Studio 2010

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:12:59 GMT

I went to a local MS launch event for Visual Studio today, mainly to see what was new with Team Foundation Server, but what really impressed me was some of the new architecture tools they've added. I admittedly haven't read too much about this before today (my needs have been well-served by NDepend) but I'm happy to see some improved architecture tools find their way into Visual Studio. Looking at the version comparison chart, it appears this is only available in the Ultimate version.

Validating a Domain model for VB.Net

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:17:59 GMT

Validating a domain object without changing the object, for VB.Net.

Do we need to know basic math as programmers?

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:46:45 GMT

How much math does a programmer need to know to do his job? These days with all the frameworks that exists you don't need to know how to do a square root, a power function or a quick sort these will likely already be built in

6 ways to import data into SQL Server

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:45:00 GMT

6 different ways are shown to import data from a file into SQL Server

Recover a SQL Server database without the ldf file

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:22:45 GMT

How to recover a SQL Server database if you don't have the LOG file

Arranging your VB.Net and C# code with NArrange

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:15:51 GMT

How to arrange your VB.Net and C# code with NArrange

The differences between LEN and DATALENGTH in SQL Server

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:14:53 GMT

The differences between LEN and DATALENGTH in SQL Server! I have seen a bunch of questions about this recently and decided to do a little post to clear up the confusion.

Dynamic column names and fields in SSRS (Custom Matrix)

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:42:22 GMT

creating dynamic column headings and dynamically determine what field in my dataset should go where in a report

LINQ - Using Quantifiers like Any, Contains and All while Querying Obj

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:45:00 GMT

Quantifier operations return a Boolean value if some or all of the elements in a sequence satisfy a condition. In this article, we will see some common LINQ to Objects scenarios where we can use these operators.

Head Tracking and 3D WPF

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:45:00 GMT

Using a webcam to track head movement and manipulate looking direction and position in 3D WPF.

What is a build script? Writing MsBuild Scripts - Part I

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:30:00 GMT

In this post series I will try to explain MsBuild. In this post, I am explaining the need for a build script.

Visual Studio 2010 Screenshots

Wed, 20 May 2009 20:03:58 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 has been made available to MSDN subscribers yesterday. I downloaded Visual Studio 2010 today and installed it on Windows 7 RC. I took some images so that you can see what it looks like

Client Statistics in SSMS. Check execution times

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:46:21 GMT

Do you use Client Statistics when testing queries?. When set on you can get the same results and much more that can help you measure your performance while altering your code.

Create XML Files Out Of SQL Server With SSIS And FOR XML Syntax

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:09:55 GMT

Create XML Files Out Of SQL Server With SQL Server Integration Services And FOR XML Query Syntax

Collection Of Puzzles For Programmers

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:16:03 GMT

A nice collection of puzzles. Some are harder than others so there is something for everyone. You can choose any language you want, you will see that there are solutions in C#, Ruby, Python, Visual Basic, SQL, JavaScript, C++ and other languages.

SQL Server 2008 Proximity Search With The Geography Data Type

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:55:25 GMT

Showing how you can use the geography data type in SQL Server 2008 to do zipcode proximity search, link to data is available as well as a link to 2000/2005 version

Key Feature list For All the Different Windows 7 Versions

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 02:33:41 GMT

Here are the key features for all the different windows 7 versions

Cool Way To Launch The Malicious Software Removal Tool

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:35:43 GMT

Did you know that you can run the Malicious Software Removal Tool from the run command or create a shortcut in 2 easy steps

Sharing ASP.net Session State Between Web Applications With SQL Server

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:53:15 GMT

Sharing ASP.net MVC Session State Between Web Applications With SQL Server

SQL Server - Set based random numbers

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:31:09 GMT

SQL Server - Set based random numbers The problem with the rand function occurs when you use set based operations.