Alex Davies You can step over await I’ve just found the coolest feature of VS 2012 by far. I thought that being able to silence an exception... 01 July 2012 2 min read
Jonathan Allen Database IDs Just a quick post, mainly to test out the new blog format but related to a question on the #sqlhelp... 27 June 2012 1 min read
Red Gate Software BI Tools Team The Birth of SSAS Compare Noemi Moreno, Red Gate Business Intelligence Specialist Software vendors – even Microsoft – tend to forget about the needs of... 27 June 2012 3 min read
Laila Lotfi Calling all developers building ASP.NET applications We know that developers building desktop apps have to contend with memory management issues, and we’d like to learn more... 26 June 2012 1 min read
Damon Armstrong Microsoft Access as a Weapon of War A while ago (probably a decade ago, actually) I saw a report on a tracking system maintained by a U.S.... 25 June 2012 2 min read
Louis Davidson Speaking at PASS 2012… Exciting and Scary… As usual… Edit: As I reread this, I felt I should clarify.. As usual refers mostly to the “Scary” part. I have... 23 June 2012 3 min read
Red Gate Software BI Tools Team Welcome to the Red Gate BI Tools Team blog! Welcome to the first ever post on the brand new Red Gate Business Intelligence Tools Team blog! About the team... 22 June 2012 2 min read
Red and the Community Exceptional DBA 2011 Jeff Moden on why you should enter in 2012 My “reign” as the Red Gate Exceptional DBA is almost over and I was asked to say a few words... 19 June 2012 3 min read
Chris George Antenna Aligner Part 8: It’s Alive!!! Finally the day has come, Antenna Aligner v1.0.1 has been uploaded to the AppStore and . “Waiting for review” ..... 18 June 2012 2 min read
Alex Davies An experiment: unlimited free trial The .NET Demon team have just implemented an experiment that is quite a break from Red Gate’s normal business model.... 15 June 2012 2 min read
Louis Davidson PASS Nomination Committee Edit: Well, I didn’t get elected, and at this point, seeing who won (great choices in Angela, Stephanie, and Jason)... 13 June 2012 5 min read
Damon Armstrong Building a List of All SharePoint Timer Jobs Programmatically in C# One of the most frustrating things about SharePoint is that the difficulty in figuring something out is inversely proportional to... 12 June 2012 2 min read
Jonathan Allen A quick look at: sys.dm_os_buffer_descriptors SQL Server places data into cache as it reads it from disk so as to speed up future queries. This... 12 June 2012 4 min read
Chris George Antenna Aligner Part 7: Connecting the dots The app is basically ready, so I eagerly started to sort out creating the application entry in iTunes Connect. It’s... 08 June 2012 3 min read
Chris George Antenna Aligner Part 6: Little Robots A week ago I took temporary ownership of a HTC Desire S so that I could start testing my app... 07 June 2012 2 min read
Chris George Antenna Aligner Part 5: Devil is in the detail “The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time and the last 10% takes the another 200%” (excerpt... 01 June 2012 2 min read
Simon Cooper PostSharp, Obfuscation, and IL Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is a relatively new programming paradigm. Originating at Xerox PARC in 1994, the paradigm was first made... 31 May 2012 6 min read
Richard Mitchell 3 tips for SQL Azure connection perfection One of my main annoyances when dealing with SQL Azure is of course the occasional connection problems that communicating to... 31 May 2012 4 min read
Chris George Antenna Aligner Part 4: Role’ing in the deep Since last time I’ve been trying to sort out the general workflow of the app. It’s fundamentally not hard, there... 28 May 2012 3 min read
Laila Lotfi Modernizr Rocks HTML5 HTML5 is a moving target. At the moment, we don’t know what will be in future versions. In most circumstances,... 25 May 2012 3 min read
