Paulo Morgado

LINQ To SQL Tips & Tricks: String Operations

LINQ brought developers a very user friendly and domain independent style of writing queries. The fact that the way queries are written is domain independent doesn’t mean that any query will compile the same way or even run the same way. You’ll always...

ReMIX 09 Is Coming To Lisbon, Portugal

For the first time, ReMIX is coming to Portugal . The event will have a keynote and 3 tracks (Web Developer, UX and Architect) with 4 sessions each by the best speakers in each field. Don’t miss it! Register now!

Windows Live Messenger Unable To Connect With Error Code 80040200

Today I came across this issue when trying to sign in to Windows Live Messenger . Everyone I talked to was able to sign in, though, so I tried another account and was also able to sign in. Bing ing around, I found several blog posts pointing to a post...

Playing With SQL Server CLR Integration – Part IV (Deploying To SQL Server 2005)

With all developed and tested on my laptop using SQL Server 2008, it’s time to deploy to the company’s test machine running SQL Server 2005. The first thing I ran into when executing: CREATE ASSEMBLY [MyAssembly] AUTHORIZATION [dbo] FROM '...\MyAssembly...

Playing With SQL Server CLR Integration – Part III

You might have noticed that I used LINQ in my last Playing With SQL Server CLR Integration posts ( Part I , Part II ). I couldn’t make it work with the standard Visual Studio 2008 SQL CLR project template. Changing the Target Framework to .NET Framework...

Playing With SQL Server CLR Integration – Part II

On my last post , I showed how to convert a property bag stored in text to a CLR Table-Valued Function . I started thinking that I could retrieve the property values, but I couldn’t change them or add new properties. Passing a table as a parameter is...

Playing With SQL Server CLR Integration – Part I

I’m currently working with an application that stores a property bag in a SQL Server column like this: [[[name1]]] value1 [[[name2]]] value2.1 value2.2 [[[name3]]] value3 Don’t ask me why it’s done like this. It just is. The application decodes this property...

Typemock Is Launching The ASP.NET Bundle – Get Free Licenses

Typemock is launching a new product for ASP.NET developers – the ASP.NET Bundle - and for the launch they are giving out FREE licenses to bloggers and their readers. The ASP.NET Bundle is the ultimate ASP.NET unit testing solution, and offers both Typemock...

LINQ With C# Book Is Finally Out

It’s finally out! The LINQ Com C# (LINQ With C#) book that Luís and I wrote is out. Well, mostly Luís than I. This book, published by FCA , is targeted at anyone that already knows C# 2.0 and wants to know learn the new features introduced with C# 3.0...

ASP.NET Futures: Control ClientID Generation

ASP.NET is expected to have some improvements on the generation of client IDs . Although this is a major improvement, it comes short by not allowing the generation of shorter client IDs for server controls. My good friend Nuno Gomes has done some work...