PASS Day 3–Database Design Session Day (mine and two others)

Today was much different than yesterday when I attended the “hurts your head” sessions. Today the sessions were, for the...

11 November 2010 3 min read

Simon Cooper

Subterranean IL: Generics and array covariance

Arrays in .NET are curious beasts. They are the only built-in collection types in the CLR, and SZ-arrays (single dimension,...

11 November 2010 5 min read

Louis Davidson

PASS Day 2–In which my head began to hurt

This morning, keeping to my typical method I missed the keynote in person but kept up via twitter feed (http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23sqlpass)....

11 November 2010 3 min read

Louis Davidson

Pass Day 1–It begins, the conference, not the day as this is really a recap

Today the conference starts in earnest. Lots and lots of people here this year…crazy amounts really. I arrived for the...

09 November 2010 3 min read

Louis Davidson

PASS Day 0 – After

So we are finished with the day, and man am I tired. (Actually I am starting this blog at 4:45,...

09 November 2010 3 min read

Roger Hart

Stop using Paper.li

Or at least find a way to use it right. Last week, a blog I read went off on a...

08 November 2010 7 min read

Simon Cooper

Subterranean IL: Callvirt and generic types

In this post we finally get on to how basic generic methods are implemented in IL. First of all, we...

08 November 2010 6 min read

Louis Davidson

Pass Day 0 – Before

Last night I got in around 3, saw a few people in the airport, shared a cab with some of...

08 November 2010 3 min read

Benjamin Nevarez

Inside the SQL Server Query Optimizer

This book will take you from the fundamentals of Statistics, Cost Estimation, Index Selection, and the Execution Engine, and guide...

08 November 2010 2 min read

Damon Armstrong

Where is the Site URL property of a SharePoint 2010 Project?

I ran into an issue today opening up an ASP.NET page from a SharePoint 2010 sample project from MSDN today:...

06 November 2010 2 min read

Simon Cooper

Subterranean IL: Callvirt and virtual methods

Next up is a look at the details of callvirt and what happens when you call a virtual method. However,...

05 November 2010 6 min read

Laila Lotfi

Silverlight: less cross-platform, more cross developers

Much has changed since Silverlight first saw the daylight. Microsoft has realized for some time that they can’t possibly maintain...

05 November 2010 3 min read

Shailesh Patel

Understanding Browser-Based Silverlight Project Architecture

A large part of Silverlight's allure is in its cross-browser capabilities, and that power is derived from its rendering architecture....

04 November 2010 11 min read

Michael Sorens

Creating Tray Applications in .NET: A Practical Guide

It isn't widely known that you can use both WPF and Winforms with VS2010 to create a system tray application...

04 November 2010 26 min read

Hima Bindu Vejella

The New Features in C#4.0

The co-evolution of Visual Basic and C# is increasingly going to bring the feature-set of those languages closer together. So,...

04 November 2010 20 min read

Jonathan Allen

SQL Monitor – behind the scenes

“Hi Jonathan, my name is Adam, I work for Red Gate, on the SQL Response team. I am wondering if...

03 November 2010 6 min read

Leidago Noabeb

Using Table Valued Parameters with VB.NET

SQL Server's Table-Valued Parameters are useful, and easy to use, but you should be aware that something that looks loke...

03 November 2010 13 min read

Richard Mitchell

Red Gate Labs on a shoestring

In the Beginning Red Gate in the past has always produced lovely tools, however sometimes things are created which are...

02 November 2010 5 min read

Red Gate Books

The Red Gate Guide to SQL Server Team-based Development

This book shows how to use a mixture of home-grown scripts, native SQL Server tools, and tools from the Red...

02 November 2010 5 min read

Simon Cooper

Subterranean IL: Introduction

Today, I’ll be starting a new series of blog posts on ‘Subterranean IL’ – a look at the low-level IL...

01 November 2010 3 min read

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Articles

PASS Day 3–Database Design Session Day (mine and two others)

Subterranean IL: Generics and array covariance

PASS Day 2–In which my head began to hurt

Pass Day 1–It begins, the conference, not the day as this is really a recap

PASS Day 0 – After

Stop using Paper.li

Subterranean IL: Callvirt and generic types

Pass Day 0 – Before

Inside the SQL Server Query Optimizer

Where is the Site URL property of a SharePoint 2010 Project?

Subterranean IL: Callvirt and virtual methods

Silverlight: less cross-platform, more cross developers

Understanding Browser-Based Silverlight Project Architecture

Creating Tray Applications in .NET: A Practical Guide

The New Features in C#4.0

SQL Monitor – behind the scenes

Using Table Valued Parameters with VB.NET

Red Gate Labs on a shoestring

The Red Gate Guide to SQL Server Team-based Development

Subterranean IL: Introduction