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
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
