Breaking through the class sealing

Do you understand ‘sealing’ in C#? Somewhat? Anyway, here’s the lowdown. I’ve done this article from a C# perspective, but...

26 April 2010 5 min read

Richard Morris

Chuck Esterbrook: Geek of the Week

The Cobra Programming Language is an exciting new general-purpose Open-source language for .NET or Mono, which features unit tests, contracts,...

26 April 2010 13 min read

Phil Factor

The Cobra Programming Language

There are suddenly a number of strong alternatives to C# or VB. F#, IronPython and Iron Ruby are now joined...

26 April 2010 9 min read

Damon Armstrong

Thoughts on C# Extension Methods

I’m not a huge fan of extension methods. When they first came out, I remember seeing a method on an...

23 April 2010 4 min read

Louis Davidson

Do DBA’s not desire sleep?

Or any support people for that matter. I constantly hear people having to support this, support that, wearing the “beeper”,...

23 April 2010 4 min read

Fabiano Amorim

Showplan Operator of the Week – Concatenation

Fabiano continues in his mission to describe, one week at a time, all the major Showplan Operators used by SQL...

22 April 2010 3 min read

Chris Farrell

The Fast Guide to Application Profiling

In this sample chapter from his recently released book (co-Authored with Paul Glavich) Chris Farrell gives us a fast overview...

22 April 2010 35 min read

Ludmal De Silva

ASP.NET 4.0 Features

ASP.NET v4 is released with Visual studio 2010. Web developers are presented with a bewildering range of new features and...

22 April 2010 11 min read

Laerte Junior

Encrypting your SQL Server Passwords in PowerShell

A couple of months ago, a friend of mine who is now bewitched by the seemingly supernatural abilities of PowerShell...

20 April 2010 3 min read

Simon Cooper

Developing Schema Compare for Oracle (Part 2): Dependencies

In developing Schema Compare for Oracle, one of the issues we came across was the size of the databases. As...

20 April 2010 9 min read

Nick Harrison

Back to Basics: Converting a Web Page to a Web Form View

ASP.NET developers can learn a lot from MVC practices. This article shows you how to structure a WebPage in an...

20 April 2010 15 min read

Jonathan Medd

New Remoting Features in PowerShell 2.0

Eager to quell misinformation, Jonathan Medd points why PowerShell 2.0 is so much more than just super-charged SSH. He describes...

20 April 2010 16 min read

Damon Armstrong

Another VSeWSS Error Resolved (List Template not installed on Farm)

Ran into a minor snag today trying to deploy a project with VSeWSS 1.3 – during the deployment it gave...

19 April 2010 1 min read

Geoffrey Braaf

.NET Reflector Pro to the rescue

Almost all applications have to interface with components or modules written by somebody else, for which you don't have the...

19 April 2010 6 min read

Alex Davies

A better way to do concurrent programming

Programming to take advantage of multicore processors is hard. If you let multiple threads access the same memory, bad things...

18 April 2010 1 min read

Greg Larsen

Deploying Reports using the ReportingServices2005 Class and the RS Utility

Much of the routine administration of Reporting Services (SSRS), such as the routine deployment of RDL reports, can be automated...

16 April 2010 17 min read

Simon Cooper

Developing Schema Compare for Oracle (Part 1)

SQL Compare is one of Red Gate’s most successful SQL Server tools; it allows developers and DBAs to compare and...

15 April 2010 8 min read

Roger Hart

Video games, content strategy, and failure – oh my.

Last night was the CS London group’s event Content Strategy, Manhattan Style. Yes, it’s a terrible title, feeling like a...

14 April 2010 5 min read

Rodney Landrum

Consolidating SQL Server Error Logs from Multiple Instances Using SSIS

SQL Server hides a lot of very useful information in its error log files. Unfortunately, the process of hunting through...

14 April 2010 15 min read