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Hopefully most of you are using VS 2010 as their primary development environment or are at least giving it a good shakedown.  One of the GREAT new features in MSTest is the ability to execute unit tests in parallel on … Continue reading →

Can you believe it?  It’s been 10 years since Microsoft publicly demoed the .Net Framework and languages at the 2000 PDC in Orlando.  Wow, we’ve come so far in just a short time.  Well, maybe not so short if you … Continue reading →

I’ve been getting more into WPF and found a fantastic site for resources.  It’s http://www.WindowsClient.net.  There are frequent articles, good community support and what I found better than any WPF book I’ve read so far are the Getting Started Videos!   … Continue reading →

Recently I’ve been working with SQLCLR and the experience has been great.  There are some absolutely fantastic things about SQLCLR such as about a 60% performance increase when shredding XML and the lovely SQLBulkCopy feature.   One thing that did surprise … Continue reading →

OK, after a significant amount of frustration with the Community Platform v2.0 that MSDN blogs use, I have come back to my Live Spaces blog and it feels great.  I still have not been able to post a blog-move post … Continue reading →

Well, after three years at Microsoft, I finally decided it was time to move my blog to MSDN.  The old blogs (BlogSpot and this one) are still around for reference.  It’s interesting to see the stuff that’s gone one over the … Continue reading →

The Repeat Query Operator is one of those utilities that you’ll find very handy but can really bite you if you don’t fully realize what it’s doing.  The Repeat is NOT an extension method but rather a ‘Generation Operator’.  The … Continue reading →

There is a great tool that comes with VSTSDB GDR that allows you to import and deploy databases from boxes where VS is not installed.  You can import, deploy and even generate scripts (both incremental and full).  However, it’s not … Continue reading →

For years people have struggled with SharePoint.  The concept is a good one but the implementation left much to be desired (yes, I hear the huge roar of swearing).  Even with the current production release, something as simple as deployment … Continue reading →

  I’ve gotten numerous requests to add my space to other people’s spaces.  If you have a valid relevent request and you get denied, please send me a message or email and I will review your request.  Sorry to be … Continue reading →