Take what you can get (?)
When you're just starting out or when your organization is struggling or when the economy isn't hot, it's very tempting to take what you can get. You... more »
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Updated ClassCleaner and ClassCleaner Refactor!Pro Menu for DXCore 2009.2.8
Its that time again! DevExpress has released an update to their Developer Productivity Tools suite which means that several plugins need to be... more »
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Getting Camtasia to work with the E-MU 1616 Sound Card
I just got sound working in my C64 emulator and I wanted to record a short WMV of M.U.L.E. to send to a few friends, but couldn’t figure out how to... more »
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MPI Project Template for VS2010
If you are developing MS MPI applications with Visual Studio 2010, you are probably tired of following some tedious steps for every new C++ project... more »
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SSIS Package Stats Collector version 2
A few weeks ago I published a blog entitled Collecting information about your SSIS packages which demonstrated a way that you could use T-SQL and... more »
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Developing for Windows Mobile – Mobile XAML?
I’ve now included a “first cut” XAML parser (ultra simplistic) within v0.2 of my Mobile UI Framework.
SQLAuthority News – Data Compression Strategy Capacity Planning and Best Practices
The data compression feature in SQL Server 2008 helps compress the data inside a database, and it can help reduce the size of the database. Apart from... more »
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Oredev 2009 - LIVE (now recorded) Closing Panel Video
I was at Øredev 2009 in Malmö, Sweden this week. Øredev is fast becoming one of the premier conferences in Europe focused on the software development... more »
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Neat VS10 Feature: Pinning A Debugger Watch
I was stepping through some code in a debugger today and noticed a neat little feature of Visual Studio 2010 that I hadn’t noticed before. When... more »
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Using serialized JSON to move complex data to and from the browser
Jarod and I have both been working on a FubuMVC application for one of our Guild 3 clients. It’s been great to have the opportunity to work with a... more »
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Detect Recursive Calls in Your .NET Code
Here's a way you can check whether the current method is recursive. The following method returns True when your application is in a recursive method
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Quickly Determine Whether a Column Is Fully Visible in a DataGridView
It's easy to determine whether a DataGridView column is invisible—just check its Boolean Displayed property. However, the Displayed property returns... more »
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Foreign Key Relationships in the Entity Framework
Last March Alex James posted to our design blog about our plans for adding foreign keys to the entity framework. Since then we’ve pushed forward with... more »
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Create ASP.NET Dynamic Hyperlinks from URLs Stored in Web.Config
Consider storing any URLs used by your application in the web.config file—where you can easily update them—and then using them to create hyperlinks in... more »
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Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) and Software Security Today
The Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) team recently released two new security tools, BinScope Binary Analyzer and MiniFuzz File Fuzzer,... more »
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DataAnnotations not in the client profile
In Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 Microsoft is amping up the visibility of the “client profile” concept. In fact, when you install the 4.0 client... more »
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Introduction to Distributed Source Control
Version control systems manage the changes of documents. In software development, their primary purpose is to store the source code for an... more »
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Best Open Source UML tools
There were days when UML tools were expensive and only few commercial ones were available. But, now the market is flooded with several commercial and... more »
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Rayures: Velocity integration and other Goodies for Stripes
Rayures is a plugin for Stripes that I've been working on to integrate Velocity along with several conveniences to make developing with Stripes even... more »
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Windows 7 vs Ubuntu 9.10
There's a lot you can compare among them. This one focuses on Performance and Gaming benchmarks
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The Future of Google
This is what Google will look like in Year 2060
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Download Free Business Icons at Smashing Share – Part 3
Thanks to Smashing Share readers for liking Free Business Icons – Part 1 and Free Business Icons – Part 2 posts. Here is the third (3rd) part for... more »
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50+ Treasured Free Firefox Themes
Firefox is a fastet growing famous web browser, I did research and originate many new really beautiful and professional Firefox themes. I just choose... more »
Devmentia: My God's Better than Your God
No, I am not going to talk about religion here. At least, I am not going to write about classic religions. That is better left to the religious... more »
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