Via Eric G. Harrison – MS have developed a SQL Server Best Practices Analyser Tool. It’s like a cross between FxCop and Baseline Security Analyser, … Read more
Life would be simpler if I had the source code
Year: 2004
Ooh, this is great news: http://nxopinion.robertsoninstitute.org/blogs/rcecil/archive/2004/11/11/167.aspx It’s a little thing, to be sure, but I often find myself wanting to make a setter internal or … Read more
Woohoo! I just passed MS exam 70-320 with a score of 936, and am now a Microsoft Certified Application Developer!
Late last night I was doing some development work on a website for our investment club. I had a strongly-typed collection of "Stock" objects, and … Read more
There’s so much good open-source .Net development going on these days – .Text, nGallery, nUnit, etc – it’s a really interesting time to be a developer. … Read more
Update (25/02/2006) – Hey, we now have String.IsNullOrEmpty, you know! What’s the quickest way, in C#, to test whether a string is empty? This is … Read more
For months now, I’ve been desperate for a decent excuse to make a custom ASP.NET server control, so I was secretly pleased today when a … Read more
Remind me again why I do this kind of thing in January? Thanks to Alex for the companionship on this greyest of days.