DDITDev
A crack team of devs in the Developer Division. ASP.NET, SQL, C#, development practices.
LINQ to SQL and multiple result sets in Stored Procedures
In this post I'm going to demonstrate how you would return and consume multiple result sets from a...
Date: 05/06/2008
VS2008 Tip - Remove unused 'using' statements
Did you know that VS2008 has a great feature to remove any unused 'using' statements in your code?...
Date: 03/19/2008
Working with Virtual Machines in PowerShell, SCVMM and C#
Lately I've been experimenting with SCVMM and PowerShell, and I wondered how hard it would be to...
Date: 03/17/2008
Creating Arcs and Changing Centers with Expression
I know I had a hard time trying to work this out when I was starting to use Expression, so I thought...
Date: 09/17/2007
A Real-Time Trace Listener/Watcher
Goals of this post: Example for writing a custom trace listener which outputs real-time information...
Date: 09/06/2007
Using Virtual Earth in your WPF application
Technorati Tags: virtual earth, wpf, ve, geotagging I wanted to experiment more with WPF, since I...
Date: 08/22/2007
Speeding up image loading in WPF using thumbnails
Technorati Tags: wpf, thumbnails, image, performance, slow, BitmapImage During a recent WPF session...
Date: 08/22/2007
SQL Server Management Studio - Quick Tip
Just a quick tip I thought I would share... When working in SQL Server Management Studio, an easy...
Date: 08/09/2007
Quality & Trust
Recently we had a new release of an application that didn't go as well as planned, which I'm sure a...
Date: 07/06/2007
Windows Live Writer Beta 2
If you've read my earlier post, Windows Live Writer Plugins & Dirty Diapers!, you'll know that...
Date: 06/01/2007
What do you want? ;)
Yesterday my manager sent an email around to the team asking for ways we could better utilize the...
Date: 05/09/2007
Easiest. Hire. Ever.
One of the team members pointed out yesterday that it's exactly a year since I made this obnoxious...
Date: 02/23/2007
Reflector 5.0 released!
If you're serious about developing in .NET, you MUST have this tool! Scott Hanselman has a great...
Date: 02/21/2007
Windows Live Writer Plugins & Dirty Diapers!
I've been playing around with Windows Live Writer for a little while now (since it first came out in...
Date: 02/19/2007
Keeping Your Configuration Settings Straight.
One of the challenges our group deals with is finding an easy and reliable way to get our...
Date: 05/08/2006
New security blog
Jeff Jones is a director at MS who works on nothing but security. I've been reading his posts on an...
Date: 05/01/2006
How to write a Bad Resume
I figure there is plenty of information out there about how to write a good resume, so I thought I'd...
Date: 04/10/2006
MIX06: Messenger BOTS
I’m attending the https://www.mix06.com conference this week in Las Vegas and just attended a session...
Date: 03/20/2006
Code Snippets in VS2005
If you haven’t yet found the Code Snippets feature in VS 2005 it’s time to give it a look. It’s one...
Date: 03/10/2006
SQL Profiler and "Application Name=MyApp;"
Here's a great trick that can be really handy if you're a fan of the SQL Profiler. In your...
Date: 03/02/2006
So... You think you're a web dev?
I've been spending the past couple of months trying very hard to hire some temporary (i.e.;...
Date: 02/21/2006
The power of “window.showModalDialog” (posted by Aaron)
I must admit that up until about 18 months ago I rarely (if ever) used modal dialogs when building...
Date: 02/20/2006
Good articles on design
Joel Spolsky has a great website - his articles are always interesting. Looks like he's starting a...
Date: 02/03/2006
SQL Formatting - Why is this so difficult? (posted by Aaron)
Have you ever gone to modify what you thought was a simple stored procedure (one that you didn't...
Date: 01/06/2006
Don't forget about locking hints! (posted by Aaron)
I'm a big fan of using locking hints when writing SQL queries. And I'm continually amazed at how...
Date: 12/29/2005
Framework Design Guidelines (posted by Aaron)
Brad Abrams has a great series going on Framework Design Guidelines. It's worth checking out....
Date: 12/15/2005
App_Offline, IIS Redirection, and the wonders of online documentation. (posted by Arturo)
By now, you’re probably aware that ASP.NET 2.0 allows you to place a specially named file in your...
Date: 11/22/2005
Step into your customer's shoes - Posted by Avi
Many of the tools we write are used by the DevDiv Build Lab to get their job done. Cranking out...
Date: 10/21/2005
Funny SQL2005 Maintenance Features (posted by Paul)
In SQL2000 maintenance plans if you want to backup databases there is an option to allow you to...
Date: 10/18/2005
Some things I learned about SQL Indexing Tuning recently (posted by Paul)
Where to put the clustered index Last month there was a heated discussion in our group about whether...
Date: 10/07/2005
Disabling an (posted by Aaron)
I consistently see people looking for easy ways to disable asp:buttons after they're clicked. The...
Date: 10/06/2005
We Are Right! Or are we? Two design issues come up for debate (posted by Paul)
Two random debates that have come up on our team lately... The Great Index Debate While fixing some...
Date: 09/13/2005
What do the logs say? (posted by Aaron)
A few years ago when I started in my current job my group ran into a situation on an internal system...
Date: 07/26/2005
Beta2 Upgrades For Fun and Profit (posted by Arturo)
Upgrading your existing Whidbey project to Beta 2? Here's a little check list you might find useful....
Date: 07/12/2005
Dealing with Support Costs - Part 2 (Posted by Avi)
It's been a while since any of us posted! A bunch of factors have contributed to this, including...
Date: 07/06/2005
Welcome to Nerdville... Population. Us. (posted by Arturo)
ahh.. TechEd 2005. Another conference under out belts. Our bellies full of free granola bars and...
Date: 06/10/2005
Nice Shirt! (Posted by Avi)
Greetings from TechEd 2005 in Orlando!Arturo and I are here for the week - I'm here with actual work...
Date: 06/07/2005
A SQL function you just CAN’T live without... (posted by Aaron)
When SQL functions were first introduced I stumbled across one function in particular that I’ve...
Date: 06/02/2005
New and Shiny versus Old and Boring (posted by Avi)
I'll take a [very slight] segue from support costs to talk about one aspect of running this web team...
Date: 06/01/2005
Which "where" is better in SQL 2005 and Xml, or the difference between knowing and knowing (posted by Paul)
One of the projects I’m working on is to take performance data generated from our build lab in xml...
Date: 05/26/2005
Dealing with Support costs, Part 1 (posted by Avi)
As I mentioned in my first post, we own a large amount of applications; about 80 at the last count....
Date: 05/25/2005
Give a hoot.. implement IDisposable (posted by Arturo)
One of the perils of managed code taking memory management out of developers’ hands is that we often...
Date: 05/24/2005
Writing ASP.NET code… the right way. (Posted by Aaron)
There are always 10 good ways to solve a typical coding problem. Each solution might use a slightly...
Date: 05/23/2005
Testing... 1... 2... Is this thing on? (Posted by Avi)
I wanted to kick off this new blog with a post describing the team, what we do, who we are, etc....
Date: 05/17/2005