Louis Davidson MVP Award Renewal On October 1, I received my email stating that I was again renewed as an MVP. One of the greatest... 04 October 2009 3 min read
Bart Read .NET Reflector Support: Can I edit assemblies I’ve opened in .NET Reflector? Yes, you can. There are two possible approaches, both of which utilise add-ins to .NET Reflector. The first, assuming that... 02 October 2009 1 min read
Tony Davis Index Fragmentation Anxiety: a Doctor Speaks Do you suffer from Index Anxiety? Do you lie awake, worrying about whether you are neglecting to defrag your indexes?... 01 October 2009 3 min read
Louis Davidson SQL Server Deep Dives A project that I worked on a while back is finally coming to fruition, and it is one of the... 29 September 2009 3 min read
Damon Armstrong TechFest Houston Slides and Source Code TechFest Houston was a blast, and if you came out to my presentation on Simpliyfing Web Part Development or dropped... 28 September 2009 1 min read
Robert Chipperfield Cloning objects the quick and dirty way Working in .NET, a lot of the objects I use implement ISerializable – very handy when it comes to throwing... 25 September 2009 3 min read
Damon Armstrong Access Denied for "User Profile and My Sites" Links in an SSP SharePoint is great about hiding permissions. I was working on a Shared Service Provider (SSP) and was greeted with an... 17 September 2009 1 min read
Tony Davis SQL Server Rootkits: Security Scare or Nightmare? How many DBAs, I wonder, really know how to go about detecting potential rootkits in their SQL Servers? To install... 17 September 2009 3 min read
Damon Armstrong VSeWSS 1.3 – Getting around the "Unable to load one or more of the requested types" Error I hate packaging SharePoint solutions by hand. Once you’ve got it working, it’s not a big deal, but it takes... 14 September 2009 3 min read
Laila Lotfi Losing Your Memory Most so-called memory leaks in .NET applications aren’t really leaks. After all, if an object has a valid reference to... 11 September 2009 3 min read
Louis Davidson “(24 – 23 Hours) of PASS” or “Paul and Louis Try Again” If you were at our 24 Hours of PASS session which we called the 10 Big Ideas in Database Design... 10 September 2009 2 min read
Ben Adderson [BrowserTheory] – Adding a [URL] attribute to the [Browser] attribute for xUnit.net EDIT: After a request in the comments, the full solution can be obtained from here. After my last post it... 10 September 2009 7 min read
Damon Armstrong Disable XML Comment Warnings for a File I’m a big fan of enabling XML comments when you’re working on a project (either alone or as a team)... 04 September 2009 2 min read
The Future of Monitoring We’d like to talk to you about SQL Response version 2 Actually, we’d rather listen. We’re keen to hear your views (and see your ideas!) about what you’d like from SQL... 04 September 2009 3 min read
Damon Armstrong Fixing the ‘Name ActiveX Control’ Message on SharePoint Sites SharePoint sites normally have a ‘Name ActiveX Control’ used to communicate you’re online presence back to the Office system. If... 03 September 2009 2 min read
Bart Read Advance warning: .NET Reflector download site will be unavailable overnight Sept 5th – 6th 2009 Our hosting provider is moving, yes physically moving, the server that hosts the .NET Reflector download site between facilities. This... 03 September 2009 1 min read
Tony Davis The ORM Brouhaha What is wrong with benchmarking software? Not much, you’d have thought. A while back, Laila Lotfi wrote an editorial on... 03 September 2009 3 min read
Damon Armstrong Avoiding Local Authentication Issues with SharePoint Sites using Host Headers All of my VPCs are children from a base VPC that I happened to name Win2k3R2Base. At the time, it... 02 September 2009 2 min read
Damon Armstrong Recursive Anonymous Methods I was having a lively discussion with a friend the other day on the finer points of anonymous methods and... 01 September 2009 2 min read
Michael Francis When the Law Moves More Slowly than the Problem Emails are causing problems. Based on a survey of 220 large US companies in 2008, 43% reported that they had... 28 August 2009 3 min read
