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Well, I have officially been in the Seattle area for about 24 hours.  My flight in was fine and yes, the weather was cold and rainy.  I'm very happy that I picked up a raincoat before I left.  After arriving and checking into my long term housing, I took a walk around the area and ended up at a nice little bar and grille ...

I was just about to head to sleep when I read this great post by Scott Guthrie.  Apparently, Microsoft will be releasing the source code for the BCL (Base Class Libraries), ASP.NET, WinForms, etc. when .NET 3.5 and VS2008 (aka Orcas) is released later this year.  I have to admit that I was looking forward to reading some of that code ...

Seriously, I think there are few things that Developers are more passionate about than the tools and toys they use to code.  Carl has compiled a great list of Free Visual Studio 2005 Addins.  You can read the list here.  The addins that I use on a (almost) daily basis for VS 2005 are (in no particular order): AnkhSVN CodeKeep ...

''...Somewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.''                                 -- Robert ...

One of my friends suggested that I should provide a download for all of the little code snippets, controls, etc. that I throw up on my blog so people don't have to constantly copy/paste into their IDE of choice.  I thought about it and it sounded like a good idea but I think I'll do things a little bit different.  I fully intend to ...

This is an old topic, but as I work with developers more and more, I find that there is still some gray area on this topic. Concatenating strings is probably one of the most comment tasks that most developers perform in their work-lives.  If you've ever done some searching around, though, you'll find that there are 2 main ways that people ...

A quick trick that I'm sure many of you know.  Suppose you had a FormView on a page bound to a datasource.  Within that FormView, you have several fields that may or may not contain data.  Now, suppose that for whatever reason, your sponsor would like you to make a control and its label disappear if the corresponding field contained ...

Just something I thought was a bit funny/interesting.  I was debugging someone's code earlier today and I happened to glance down at my threads in VS and noticed this: Any idea of what caught my eye?   Yup -  the text that says:  ''_ConfigurationFileWatherThread''.   After switching to the thread, I ...

Scott has posted his wonderful Ultimate Tool list for 2007.  A lot of the great tools that I use on a daily basis were introduced to me via his previous lists.  With a lot of the apps, you don't know what you were missing until you fire up one of them.  In any case, pop on over and check out the list.  Well worth the ...

I was helping a co-worker today with one of his screens and realized that it may make a useful little tutorial for all those other folks out there.  This was somewhat interesting because it follows up pretty well on my previous post as I talk about saving records with a 1 to many relationship.  Basically, he needed to develop a ...