Towards a Better Beta

David Connell describes how the team that developed Red-Gate's SQL Data Generator tool came to realise that database developers and...

How to add to the list of available SQL Servers

Have you ever wanted to add to the list of SQL Servers found in Red Gate’s SQL Compare, SQL Data...

SQL Data Generator 1 (Beta) – Adding UK Style Address Generators

We are currently running a Beta of SQL Data Generator, and some people have requested UK style data generators. So...

Performance and Multiple Assigment in C#

I was recently thinking if I really liked to use the Multiple assignment in ‘C#’ or if it was less...

Adding your own .NET exceptions to Visual Studio

You can easily add your own exceptions into Visual Studio so that you do not need to add them in...

Mapping of .NET Assembly attributes to File Version Information Attributes.

.NET automatically generates a FileInformation resource when building the assembly. Here is a mapping of the .NET attribute to the...

Wild card registering COM dlls

When developing a COM based application sometimes it’s sometimes useful to register all the DLLs/OCX at once.From a command prompt...

Debugging Arbitrary thread stacks in .NET

Check out John Robbins November 05 Bugslayer article.. He has ported his excellent SUPERASSRT code from native C++ into C#....

Always set Warnings as Errors

How many of us have developed some code only to find the compiler outputs some warnings such as unused parameter,...

XP SP1/SP2 system DLL’s

Last week I found out that sometimes XP SP1 dlls are labelled as xpsp2. A client had DLLs that were labelled xpsp2 for...

Windows Keyboard short cuts

Here is a list of some of the windows key board short cuts (thanks to Tilman): Keyboard Meaning Windows key...