David Connell

David Connell is a Software Developer who led the team that created the SQL Data Generator at Red-Gate. Before then, he led the 'SQL Toolbelt' installer and the SQL Doc team, and before that worked in the SQL Bundle 5.0 team. He was previously a Senior Software engineer at Pi Research. In his spare time David Connell develops other software packages with a Dutch Company, Thermimport Quality Control.

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31 March 2008
31 March 2008

Towards a Better Beta

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David Connell describes how the team that developed Red-Gate's SQL Data Generator tool came to realise that database developers and DBAs already knew what they wanted for their test data. The team wanted to use the Beta version of the program to get a clear message from them. . And then came the daunting task of working out the best way of incorporating all this wisdom into the final product.… Read more
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30 November 2005
30 November 2005

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

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.NET automatically generates a FileInformation resource when building the assembly. Here is a mapping of the .NET attribute to the corresponding named element in VersionInformation and the name that Windows Explorer puts on its UI. Assembly Attribute VersionInfo Windows Explore name AssemblyTitle FileDescription Description AssemblyDescription Comments Comments AssemblyConfiguration AssemblyCompany CompanyName Company AssemblyCopyright LegalCopyright Copyright AssemblyTrademark … Read more
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23 November 2005
23 November 2005

Wild card registering COM dlls

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When developing a COM based application sometimes it’s sometimes useful to register all the DLLs/OCX at once.From a command prompt This will try to register all dll’s even if they are not COM dlls. This is fine as the registration will fail silently.You can change the above command to register COM servers eg… Read more
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23 November 2005
23 November 2005

Debugging Arbitrary thread stacks in .NET

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Check out John Robbins November 05 Bugslayer article.. He has ported his excellent SUPERASSRT code from native C++ into C#. Part of his solution uses CDB.(a command line version of WinDBG)I have previously found producing minidump files very useful in tracking down native code problems, so I will be trying out his new C# implementation … Read more
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18 November 2005
18 November 2005

Always set Warnings as Errors

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How many of us have developed some code only to find the compiler outputs some warnings such as unused parameter, or unreachable code and just thought “yup, I’ll fix it tomorrow”. Unfortunately tomorrow never comes and the warning just get left in. Before you know it when you build a project there are hundreds of … Read more
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09 November 2005
09 November 2005

XP SP1/SP2 system DLL’s

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Last week I found out that sometimes XP SP1 dlls are labelled as xpsp2. A client had DLLs that were labelled xpsp2 for example comctl32.dll  6.0 (xpsp2.050831-1533) c:windowswinsxsx86_microsoft.windows .common-controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.2600. 1740_x-ww_7cb8ab44comctl32.dll  However just because the DLLs are labelled xpsp2 this does not mean that they are Service Packl 2.Infact they are late XP Service Pack 1 DLLs!… Read more
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04 November 2005
04 November 2005

Windows Keyboard short cuts

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Here is a list of some of the windows key board short cuts (thanks to Tilman): Keyboard Meaning Windows key Start menu Windows key + D       Minimize all windows to Desktop Windows key + D Restore minimized windows Windows key + E Windows Explorer Windows key + L Lock Desktop Windows key … Read more
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