Bart Read .NET Reflector Support: Why does .NET Reflector auto-update itself? We’re asked about this fairly regularly, so I thought it was about time I posted up our position on it... 21 August 2009 2 min read
Tony Davis In Defence of Defensive programming The relational data model is 40 years old this month, and SQL is not much younger. By any standards, it... 21 August 2009 3 min read
Bart Read .NET Reflector Support: How can I set breakpoints in the code I’ve decompiled when debugging? I see this question come up from time to time in the .NET Reflector mailbox, so I’m going to make... 19 August 2009 3 min read
Louis Davidson Devlink Wrapup…or…Where I started to realize that the data world is “different” First off, let’s just say that Devlink (www.devlink.net) is a fantastic conference. It returned to the Lipscomb campus this year,... 17 August 2009 6 min read
Laila Lotfi Models, Views, and Controllers: ASP.NET MVC The poor application programmer, chipping away contentedly in Winforms or Webforms, is often heard to groan whenever a new Microsoft... 13 August 2009 3 min read
Bart Read .NET Reflector Support: How do I report a bug in one of the add-ins? The best way to report a bug in an add-in is to contact the add-in author directly. Andrew Clarke maintains... 11 August 2009 1 min read
Bart Read .NET Reflector Support: How do I install add-ins? Andrew Clarke has written an excellent article describing how to install .NET Reflector add-ins, as well as listing many of... 11 August 2009 1 min read
Tony Davis Database Trampled by Godzilla View For the older generation of SQL developers, discouraging the use of views is tantamount to accusing a respectable aging dowager... 06 August 2009 3 min read
Bart Read .NET Reflector Support: How do I refresh the assemblies list? You might want to do this if you’ve got an assembly open, into which you’ve recompiled some changes. It’s pretty... 05 August 2009 1 min read
Phil Factor Stolen Pages, Ad-hoc queries and the sins of dynamic SQL in the application. &nbs… 03 August 2009 11 min read
Bart Read .NET Reflector Support: Does .NET Reflector support unmanaged code? The answer to this is, unfortunately, no. .NET Reflector will work with any managed assemblies from .NET 1.0 onwards, and... 31 July 2009 1 min read
Bart Read .NET Reflector Support: Is it possible to see XML documentation for members and types? Yes, as long as you have the XML documentation file for the assembly. If the assembly is yours, you just... 30 July 2009 2 min read
Bart Read .NET Reflector Support: How do I stop .NET Reflector from asking me to locate assemblies all the time? Open up .NET Reflector and go to View > Options on the main menu. Now click on Browser in the... 30 July 2009 1 min read
Bart Read .NET Reflector Support: Where’s the .NET 3.5 decompilation support? .NET Reflector actually does support .NET 3.5 decompilation; it’s just not switched on by default. To enable this support use... 30 July 2009 1 min read
Michael Francis Why Archive Email? It is easy for IT People to forget the long time-span that some businesses have to work to. It is... 30 July 2009 3 min read
red@work Check us out… Many of us are cautious before applying for a job, especially in an office. When I was fresh out of... 27 July 2009 3 min read
Louis Davidson Should I write about what I think people ought to hear about? As I sat at home convalescing after a well twittered surgery, I have talked to several of my friends on... 27 July 2009 9 min read
Tony Davis The Horse’s Mouth It was one of those wonderful moments when a task that was, a moment ago, frustrating and nigh-impossible, suddenly became... 23 July 2009 3 min read
red@work CSR. Several days in the life of… It’s not every day at work that you are serenaded by Santa Claus* playing a ukulele. It’s not every company... 17 July 2009 6 min read
Tony Davis Working within Constraints There are many good reasons for building your data integrity logic into constraints. When such business rules become part of... 09 July 2009 3 min read
