So I’m working in a maintenance release right now.  Very little added functionality.  My current release at work is primarily to adjust to domain logic changes.  This starts by adjusting the unit tests to accomodate the changed logic, and then fixing the code to fix the tests.  Still, due to the nature of the changes, a...

Note: Due to the nature of the project I was converting, I cannot supply screenshots, my apologies.   I recently worked on a project where the source control software needed to change from VSS to Vault.  While this is easy enough using the SourceGear Vault Import Tool, there were some other things that needed to happen in order to...

I came across this statement in the Framework Design Guidelines, page 84: “DO NOT define public or protected-internal constructors in abstract types.” Then it reads: “DO define a protected or an internal constructor on abstract types.” Sure. Makes perfect sense.  Then come the examples.  It says the following code is good...

In an effort to provide information for those of you who are newcomers to databases, especially with the wonderul new Sql Server Express, I have committed myself to about half a dozen posts or so targeted directly at you to help you understand and build better databases.  Stay tuned to this blog for weekly updates to this series, or...

While helping a friend with some code, I ran into a situation where I needed to do something to word wrap lines that were going to print.  The lines were actually data coming from a database where the max length of the field is over 300 characters.  When making this data show up in a multiline textbox, it isn’t a big deal because we...

In an effort to provide information for those of you who are newcomers to databases, especially with the wonderul new Sql Server Express, I have committed myself to about half a dozen posts or so targeted directly at you to help you understand and build better databases.  Stay tuned to this blog for weekly updates to this series, or...

This is an old solution to an old problem, but since somebody asked me if I knew how to solve this problem, I thought I'd post the solution here to make it easier for people to find in the future. The problem has to do with ASP.Net and modal windows. If you've ever launched a modal window and issued a postback by clicking a button or tried to...

I was working on some code to parse some data for a friend, and had to write this little piece of code that some of you might find useful.  Right now, you can just take this, pop it into query analyzer and run it.  Its simple enough to change this to a function that accepts the string, plus a delimeter value, such as: CREATE FUNCTION...

Sorry, I’m a little late on getting this out. If you are in the Oklahoma City area today, come by and check this out. Speakers: Chris Menegay (Lunch)  Chris Menegay is a Principal Consultant for Notion Solutions. He has been helping clients develop business applications for over 10 years, most recently using Microsoft's .NET...

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Well, after a 3 week vacation from blogging, I’m back.  The past month has been very busy for me, but its time I get back on track. So I had somebody send me some code that they were having problems with.  They were trying to use T-SQL to read a value from the local registry.  When I saw that the code was about 70 lines long, I...

I had this oddly named file in My Documents, and opened it up to see what it was.  Turned out to be a whitepaper I had downloaded years ago on Transaction Cost Analysis – Capacity Model for Internet Transactions.  It was written by a couple of folks over at Microsoft who develop TCA methodologies for Microsoft for depolying...

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