I spoke about Scrum at the Orlando .NET Code Camp today, it went really well.  You can download the presentation file here.

TFS ships with an event subscription tool that you can access through command line and it’s located at “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server\TF Setup”.  You can use it to subscribe to a variety of TFS events dealing with builds, check-ins, projects, work items, etc.    You can subscribe to a handful of events […]

I am helping out with the Orlando .NET Code Camp website and they needed to add an image button, which is something that is not supported out of the box by the current release of MVC.  So after looking around I found BuildUrlFromExpression.  Unfortunately it had been moved in the latest release and I tracked […]

I’m currently working with a client that supports an application originally built around 2003 so it was targeting the 1.1 Framework.  Last summer they upgraded to the 3.5 Framework, but they have not yet taken advantage of the new features that can help them improve their performance.  Digging through their code, I found a few […]

I started working on a contract with a local software company where I am helping them adopt Scrum.  I’ve been “Scrumming” for over 2 years (yes, I am a ScrumMaster) and I really enjoy this type of work.  I’m not doing any coding (that’s what my nights are for), I am pretty much helping them […]

So as the new year starts, I’m going to take a better look at two technologies in particular: Silverlight and “Oslo”.  Silverlight has so much potential, forget about all of its flashy features, and think about it from a line-of-business (LOB) perspective.  Companies have tried over and over to deliver desktop application features over the […]

This is not new, it’s been around since SQL 2005, but I had never had to do it before.  If you installed the SQL server samples as part of your SQL client installation, you can find a CLR folder with all sorts of goodies, it will usually be installed at C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Samples\Engine\Programmability\CLR.  Go […]

If you have 2 collections and you need to figure out what values are in one collection and not in the other, you can do this:   using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; namespace ConsoleApplication3 { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { List _List1 = new List(); List _List2 = new […]

I was starting to get concerned about one of my pages loading super slow on when testing it locally.  I tried it on IE and it was fine.  So it turned out to be an issue with IPv6 and DNS.  I found this article that helped me figure it out.  Glad it wasn’t my code!! […]

I looked into using SecureString at one point for a project that I’m working on, but didn’t find it very useful unfortunately.  There’s cases like the SMO Server instantiation where it accepts it, but when establishing a regular ADO.NET connection, there’s no support for it, so then you have to pull out the clear-text password […]