Simon Cooper Subterranean IL: Fault exception handlers Fault event handlers are one of the two handler types that aren’t available in C#. It behaves exactly like a... 09 February 2011 3 min read
Louis Davidson Some date math fun Note: This concept presented is pretty simple and I am not claiming that I am the first to do this…... 09 February 2011 7 min read
Jonathan Allen My wife has left me . . . LiveJournal Tags: Leaving,Colleagues She announced it before Christmas, in a letter, giving the exact day she intended to leave and... 31 January 2011 2 min read
Louis Davidson Chapter One – Concepts/Requirements (The Fundamentals) So here we are, the starting chapter with the obligatory introductory material that I hope people will read, digest, memorize... 28 January 2011 3 min read
Simon Cooper Subterranean IL: Compiling C# exception handlers An exception handler in C# combines the IL catch and finally exception handling clauses into a single try statement: How... 25 January 2011 4 min read
Louis Davidson What Counts for a DBA: Passion One of my first questions, when interviewing for a DBA/Programmer position, is always: “Why do you want this job?” The... 20 January 2011 3 min read
Robbie Th'ng What’s on Azure right now? If you speak to Microsoft, they’ll give you a number of active accounts, but what are those accounts actually running?... 18 January 2011 2 min read
Damon Armstrong Obscure SPUtility.SendMail Behavior When Manually Passing in Mail Headers There are two ways to send mail in SharePoint: you can either use the mail components from the System.Net namespace,... 17 January 2011 2 min read
Laila Lotfi Automated Error Reporting = More Robust Software I would like to tell you how to revolutionize your software development process </marketing hyperbole> On a more serious note,... 17 January 2011 4 min read
Simon Cooper Subterranean IL: Exception handling control flow Control flow in and around exception handlers is tightly controlled, due to the various ways the handler blocks can be... 17 January 2011 3 min read
Jonathan Allen Resolving IIS7 HTTP Error 500.19 – Internal Server Error LiveJournal Tags: RedGate Tools,SQL Server,Tips and Tricks How To The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data... 17 January 2011 2 min read
Robert Chipperfield Accessing SQL Server data from iOS apps Almost all mobile apps need access to external data to be valuable. With a huge amount of existing business data... 14 January 2011 3 min read
Simon Cooper Subterranean IL: Exception handling Today, I’ll be starting a look at the Structured Exception Handling mechanism within the CLR. Exception handling is quite a... 13 January 2011 3 min read
Phil Factor IsNumeric() Broken? Only up to a point. In SQL Server, probably the best-known ‘broken’ function is poor ISNUMERIC() . The documentation says ‘ISNUMERIC returns 1 when the... 13 January 2011 4 min read
Tony Davis Head in the Clouds We’re just past the second anniversary of the launch of Windows Azure. A couple of years’ experience with Azure in... 07 January 2011 3 min read
Jonathan Allen Getting the right results with bcp and DTS with multiple versions of SQL Server installed. I was using SSIS for the first time on an instance the other day and came across this error when... 04 January 2011 2 min read
Roger Hart Tron: Legacy, 3D goggles, and embedded UA The 3D edition of Tron: Legacy opens with embedded user assistance. The film starts with an iconic white-on-black command-prompt message... 21 December 2010 3 min read
Jonathan Allen Getting baseline and performance stats – the easy way. OK, pretty much any DBA worth their salt has read Brent Ozar’s (Blog | Twitter) blog about getting a baseline... 20 December 2010 5 min read
Brian Donahue Anatomy of a serialization killer As I had mentioned last month, I have been working on a project to create an easy-to-use managed debugger. It’s... 19 December 2010 3 min read
Damon Armstrong Resolving an App-Relative URL without a Page Object Reference If you’ve worked with ASP.NET before then you’ve almost certainly seen an application-relative URL like ~/SomeFolder/SomePage.aspx. The tilde at the... 19 December 2010 1 min read
