Louis Davidson PASS Day 3–Database Design Session Day (mine and two others) Today was much different than yesterday when I attended the “hurts your head” sessions. Today the sessions were, for the... 11 November 2010 3 min read
Simon Cooper Subterranean IL: Generics and array covariance Arrays in .NET are curious beasts. They are the only built-in collection types in the CLR, and SZ-arrays (single dimension,... 11 November 2010 5 min read
Louis Davidson PASS Day 2–In which my head began to hurt This morning, keeping to my typical method I missed the keynote in person but kept up via twitter feed (http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23sqlpass).... 11 November 2010 3 min read
Louis Davidson Pass Day 1–It begins, the conference, not the day as this is really a recap Today the conference starts in earnest. Lots and lots of people here this year…crazy amounts really. I arrived for the... 09 November 2010 3 min read
Louis Davidson PASS Day 0 – After So we are finished with the day, and man am I tired. (Actually I am starting this blog at 4:45,... 09 November 2010 3 min read
Roger Hart Stop using Paper.li Or at least find a way to use it right. Last week, a blog I read went off on a... 08 November 2010 7 min read
Simon Cooper Subterranean IL: Callvirt and generic types In this post we finally get on to how basic generic methods are implemented in IL. First of all, we... 08 November 2010 6 min read
Louis Davidson Pass Day 0 – Before Last night I got in around 3, saw a few people in the airport, shared a cab with some of... 08 November 2010 3 min read
Damon Armstrong Where is the Site URL property of a SharePoint 2010 Project? I ran into an issue today opening up an ASP.NET page from a SharePoint 2010 sample project from MSDN today:... 06 November 2010 2 min read
Simon Cooper Subterranean IL: Callvirt and virtual methods Next up is a look at the details of callvirt and what happens when you call a virtual method. However,... 05 November 2010 6 min read
Laila Lotfi Silverlight: less cross-platform, more cross developers Much has changed since Silverlight first saw the daylight. Microsoft has realized for some time that they can’t possibly maintain... 05 November 2010 3 min read
Jonathan Allen SQL Monitor – behind the scenes “Hi Jonathan, my name is Adam, I work for Red Gate, on the SQL Response team. I am wondering if... 03 November 2010 6 min read
Richard Mitchell Red Gate Labs on a shoestring In the Beginning Red Gate in the past has always produced lovely tools, however sometimes things are created which are... 02 November 2010 5 min read
Simon Cooper Subterranean IL: Introduction Today, I’ll be starting a new series of blog posts on ‘Subterranean IL’ – a look at the low-level IL... 01 November 2010 3 min read
Louis Davidson Why you should and shouldn’t vote for my SQL Rally Pre-con So, let’s be honest. I would love another trip down to Orlando to do my two favorite things. 1. Talking... 01 November 2010 2 min read
Tony Davis SA no more! Despite it being such an obvious security problem, developers still use the sa login, or assign sysadmin privileges to their... 28 October 2010 2 min read
Jonathan Allen Looking for long term friendship No, this isn’t some cheesy Singles column advert posted in the wrong place. I am seriously looking for some friends.... 28 October 2010 4 min read
Roger Hart Lorem ipsum, 18th century novels, and a new Red Gate website I came across three things a while back that made me smile: Nation Shudders At Large Block Of Uninterrupted Text... 27 October 2010 5 min read
Damon Armstrong Using SharePoint 2010 as a DataSource: Presentation and Source Code from the Tyson Developer's Conference I wanted to thank everyone who came out to my presentation. Below you will find the source code and the... 25 October 2010 1 min read
The .NET Team The #1 Tip The best IT articles and suggestions come from the grizzled front-line veterans, and the best grizzled front-line veterans are the... 21 October 2010 3 min read