Orchard? No harvest quite yet.

Microsoft announced last week that it was scrapping its Windows Live Spaces blogging technology, and would make Automattic’s WordPress the...

07 October 2010 3 min read

Simon Cooper

There’s only one ThreadExceptionHandler

There can only ever be one Application.ThreadException handler. Yes, you read that correctly. To give some context, the core of...

07 October 2010 2 min read

Jinath Premaratne

WebMatrix: Website Development made easier?

Microsoft's WebMatrix Beta 2 comes with some interesting technologies, such as Razor and IIS Developer Express. It promises a much...

05 October 2010 11 min read

Khawar Yunus

One application in both WPF and Silverlight

Because Silverlight is a development of Windows Presentation Foundation, and the technologies are so interlinked, it would seem obvious that...

05 October 2010 6 min read

Nick Harrison

Under the ORM Hood: Revealing the SQL

Your application code may look neat and clean, and you are using a sound Object-relational Mapper, but when you put...

05 October 2010 13 min read

Tony Davis

Oracle whistles a different tune

It is sometimes refreshing to crawl out from the hothouse of SQL Server to take a look at other platforms....

01 October 2010 3 min read

Clive Tong

The Joy of Clojure (book review)

It’s been a long time since Lisp and Scheme have been in the news. Despite the abilities of these languages...

30 September 2010 8 min read

Timothy Ford

Investigating Transactions Using Dynamic Management Objects

There can be a great difference in the performance of a particular routine in a test database, and in a...

30 September 2010 39 min read

Rod Colledge

Policy-based Management and Central Management Servers

Whilst it may be more exciting as a DBA to rush around fixing broken databases, it is far better to...

30 September 2010 23 min read

Richard Morris

Dr Byron Cook: Geek of the Week

On moving to Cambridge University after developing the SLAM model checker used by Microsoft's Static Driver Verifier, Dr Bryan Cook's...

27 September 2010 16 min read

Robert Sheldon

Working with the INSERT statement in SQL Server

The INSERT statement in SQL Server is versatile. It now allows the insertion of multiple rows of literal values. It...

27 September 2010 12 min read

The .NET Team

TOOWTDI

PowerShell 2 is an integral part of Exchange Server 2010, and the latest Windows Server technologies, perhaps on the premise...

23 September 2010 2 min read

Michel de Rooij

Connecting the Disconnected in Exchange 2010

Since Exchange 2000, and the introduction of the document retention period it has been much easier to recover mailboxes, disconnect...

22 September 2010 12 min read

Damon Armstrong

System.DirectoryServices Unknown error (0x80005000) Resolution

This seems completely ridiculous. I needed to write some queries against Active Directory so I made a quick console application...

21 September 2010 2 min read

Jonathan Medd

PowerShell Version 2: What is new and why is it important?

It was a year ago that Microsoft shipped PowerShell 2. Jonathan Medd lists the top ten reasons why PowerShell 2...

21 September 2010 16 min read

Greg Larsen

Parameter Sniffing

If a SQL query has parameters, SQL Server creates an execution plan tailored to them to improve performance, via a...

20 September 2010 13 min read

Jaap Wesselius

Address List Segregation or the "Hoster Edition" of Exchange Server 2010 SP1 – don't even think about it!

Although very tempting to use, the Hoster Edition of Exchange Server 2010 SP1 is not an alternative for the enterprise...

20 September 2010 4 min read

Jonathan Lewis

Oracle to SQL Server: Putting the Data in the Right Place

Jonathan Lewis is an Oracle expert who is recording his exploration of SQL Server in a series of articles. In...

17 September 2010 24 min read

Laila Lotfi

Devscovery 2010 – Last Day

It’s the last day of Devscovery and time to wrap up the Red Gate games by announcing the winner of...

16 September 2010 2 min read