Investigating .NET Memory Management and Garbage Collection

Investigating a subtle memory leak can be tricky business, but things are made easier by using The .NET framework's tool...

24 March 2010 23 min read

Michael Sorens

From WinForm to WPF: A Quick Reference Guide

Michael Sorens provides a handy wallchart to help migration between WinForm / WPF, VS 2008 / 2010, and .NET 3.5...

23 March 2010 13 min read

Amirthalingam Prasanna

Developing your Data Access Layer with ADO.NET Entity Framework 4

Entity Framework has evolved in the light of feedback. ADO.NET Entity Framework 4 is now better able to accommodate different...

23 March 2010 11 min read

Tony Davis

On Writing Blogs

Why are so many blogs about IT so difficult to read? Over at SQLServerCentral.com, we do a special subscription-only newsletter...

19 March 2010 3 min read

Buck Woody

Mission Critical: Database Design

There is nothing like a checklist to make sure you've completed all the tasks in designing a database, and there...

18 March 2010 3 min read

Roger Hart

Ad-hoc taxonomy: owning the chess set doesn’t mean you decide how the little horsey moves

There was one of those little laugh-or-cry moments recently when I heard an anecdote about content strategy failings at a...

17 March 2010 3 min read

Richard Morris

Doug Crockford: Geek of the Week

Doug Crockford is the man behind JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). He is a well-known critic of XML and guides the...

17 March 2010 9 min read

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Transparent Data Encryption

Transparent Data Encryption is designed to protect data by encrypting the physical files of the database, rather than the data...

16 March 2010 26 min read

Rod Colledge

Planning for Disaster

There is a certain paradox in being advised to expect the unexpected, but the DBA must plan and prepare in...

16 March 2010 16 min read

Richard Morris

Bernie Cosell: Geek of the Week

Bernie Cosell is a networking guy, a careful programmer, and an outstanding debugger who gets the credit, along with Dave...

15 March 2010 14 min read

Tony Davis

Performance Tuning with SQL Server Dynamic Management views – eBook Download

This is the book that will de-mystify the process of using Dynamic Management Views to collect the information you need...

15 March 2010 4 min read

Alamzeb Khan

Software Piracy in Pakistan

Alamzeb Khan, our Simple-Talk correspondent in Pakistan, goes undercover to discover the true scale of software piracy in his native...

13 March 2010 10 min read

Brien Posey

Implementing Cluster Continuous Replication, Part 3

Cluster continuous replication (CCR) uses log shipping and failover to provide a more resilient email system with faster recovery. Once...

12 March 2010 14 min read

Ben Lye

Troubleshooting Nonpaged and Paged Pool Errors in Windows

Ben Lye uncovered a memory leak in the nonpaged pool which was crashing his servers with disquieting regularity. Luckily it...

12 March 2010 6 min read

Michael Francis

The Politics of Junk Filtering

If the national postal service, such as the Royal Mail in the UK, were to go through your letters and...

11 March 2010 3 min read

Matt Simmons

Unteachable Disaster Recovery Techniques

There are some skills which are extensions of your instincts, and which you can only learn though years of experience....

11 March 2010 5 min read

Paul Glavich

.NET Performance Testing and Optimization – The Complete Guide

In the Complete Guide .NET Performance and Optimization, Paul Glavich and Chris Farrell offer a comprehensive and essential handbook to...

08 March 2010 4 min read

Phil Factor

When Your Boss Doesn’t Want you to Succeed

You’re working hard to get an application finished. You are programming long into the evenings sometimes, and eating sandwiches at...

07 March 2010 9 min read

Tony Davis

Music before bells and whistles

Why is it that Windows has so much difficulty in finding content on its file system? This is not an...

04 March 2010 3 min read

Damon Armstrong

Exposing an MVC Application Through SharePoint

Below you will find my presentation slides and demo files for my SharePoint TechFest 2010 presentation on Exposing an MVC...

04 March 2010 1 min read

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Articles

Investigating .NET Memory Management and Garbage Collection

From WinForm to WPF: A Quick Reference Guide

Developing your Data Access Layer with ADO.NET Entity Framework 4

On Writing Blogs

Mission Critical: Database Design

Ad-hoc taxonomy: owning the chess set doesn’t mean you decide how the little horsey moves

Doug Crockford: Geek of the Week

Transparent Data Encryption

Planning for Disaster

Bernie Cosell: Geek of the Week

Performance Tuning with SQL Server Dynamic Management views – eBook Download

Software Piracy in Pakistan

Implementing Cluster Continuous Replication, Part 3

Troubleshooting Nonpaged and Paged Pool Errors in Windows

The Politics of Junk Filtering

Unteachable Disaster Recovery Techniques

.NET Performance Testing and Optimization – The Complete Guide

When Your Boss Doesn’t Want you to Succeed

Music before bells and whistles

Exposing an MVC Application Through SharePoint