MultiThreading in .Net is an important issue. Sebastien writes a good article about multithreading using C# examples, mainly talking about the benefits of the ReaderWriterLock object and using the “Dispose” pattern. Some stuff I didn't know in there (but that's nothing new - I seems as though anywhere I look there's a bit of knowledge...

[Note: this post applies to Israeli blog readers] One of the talks that I *really* want to do at one of the user groups is “Hands on Test Driven Development Explained” (like this one). The thing about TDD is that the only way I've found people to start “getting” it, is by actually doing it. “doing” is a strong...

The Add-In contest is really picking up steam. The prizes rock, and hopefully we'll all be getting some cool entries that we can all benefit from. However, I got a good suggestion from Eric Brunsen:   “How about adding a little "flavor" to your contest. have a place/way for people to post ideas of add-ins they would like, and then post...

Gavin knows how to do viral marketing well. I'm writing this, arn't I? :)   [Update] Here's another great viral marketer: “Anyway, John offers an interesting deal on his website. He writes: Imagine you are applying for a job and the interviewer asks you this question. How would you handle it? Send me your most creative answer to...

It's interesting to see how VB.NET is slowly but surely diverging itself into a whole different language and toolset. The most notable of these changes to me right now is the “My” language addition, available in VB.Net only in the next version of VS.Net (2005). This feature is pretty frigging' cool. It basically is an...

Very nice MSDN TV show on some of the new features in ADO.NET 2.0.  Some really cool stuff in there. (link via Christa)

The past week has be *tough*. We found on on Sunday that my wife needs to leave for Taipei,Taiwan on Monday. That's right, the day after that. So, we were all busy and anxious to get all packing. Her job is sending her off there for some client stuff. Should be back within two weeks That leaves me to take care of signing all the mortgage papers we...

This game is simple and really addicting: Can you seperate the blue from the red?

It is final. SMS is far more annoying than regular email spam. How so? Here's a little story.   A couple of months ago my wife and me went to a disco club (if you're from israel, it was the TLV - be warned!). All was fine and dandy and we had a lot of fun. The week after that, on thursday evening, my cell phone starts beeping like crazy. I...

SO here's the deal. We hold a contest. It will be called “Most useful Add-in/macro for visual studio .Net” You send me your submissions (including code) and according to who wins, we give out some prizes. The judges: Mike Gunderloy, Frans Bouma, possibly Rory Blyth, and myself.   Submissions accepted only until the end...

Ugh. That was almost fun :) I was showing some of the guys how to do unit testing against a database, and we got stuck on a test that does an insert using a dataset. Imagine this: you use a simple data adapter against the “categories“ table in northwind, using a simple insert command with one parameter to be sent to an insertCategory...

I'll admit it now: when it comes to hardcore XML schemas,xsd's, DiffGrams and all that stuff - my eyes glaze over. Its something that I know I'll have to get into someday, but right now I'm mostly a bystander looking at all the cool traffic go by. My mind is currently occupied with enough as it is. However, if I'll ever need to get into that...

WMI rocks, but it's common to be afraid of it. Yosi points to a very cool tool that will help overcome this fear and make working with WMI a little easier: Microsoft (R) Management Strongly Typed Class Generator - MgmtClassGen.exe   Example :        MgmtclassGen Win32_Logicaldisk /L VB /N root\cimv2 /P...

In short - lots fixed, and cool stuff added! Go download version 2.0.1 beta -------------- -added: "Document Changed" dialog specifies the name of the document in question.-added: Intellisense in the Regex window.  Can be configured by changing the quick menu.config file.-added: Intellisense in the "Replace with" window. automatically list...

timestamp columns in SQL server are misunderstood. I know they are because today I was definitely misunderstanding them, and I'm (according to Google) not the first. So what's to not understand? Well, here's the deal. I had an application that required me to log for each row in a specific table the exact time at which it was last updated/Inserted...