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Desert Code Camp Is This Saturday (May 31st)
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A Software Developer Trying to Get In Shape with the Wii Fit??
We interrupt this tech blog for a quick (and pointless) message about trying to get in shape....
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Why Unit Tests Matter and How They Will Actually Save You Time
Note: The point of the post is to explain why unit tests can actually save you time in the long run even if you or your boss don't currently use or believe in them. It's not my goal to go into some silly religious discussion about why unit tests should or should not be used in a project. There are plenty of forums out there for arguing over various technical concepts and methodologies if you have the time to waste.
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Free eBook - Best of Simple Talk ASP.NET
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SQL Server 2005 Configuration Manager - Cannot Connect to WMI Provider Error
I was trying to use the SQL Server 2005 Configuration Manager tool tonight and kept getting a "Cannot connect to WMI provider" error. Very frustrating because the error message didn't give the slightest clue how to fix the problem. After doing a few searches, I came across the following post by Eric Charran that solved the problem. Apparently there are some "mof" files that must not have been installed incorrectly on my system or got corrupted. I would've never figured out the solution in a 1,000 years but fortunately Eric blogged about the following command that fixed the problem instantly:
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Carl, Richard and Myself on .NET Rocks Talking About Silverlight 2
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Working with the GridView and the System.Data.Linq.Binary Type
I'm working with a database table that has a RowVersion field defined as a TimeStamp data type. The TimeStamp field is there to add concurrency into the application to ensure a row hasn't changed while a user is trying to update or delete it. When the TimeStamp field value is queried and added into the LINQ to SQL generated object it adds it adds the data as a System.Data.Linq.Binary type as opposed to a byte array.
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Service Pack 1 Beta Released for Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5
Microsoft just released the SP1 beta for Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 and it includes a huge number of new features and enhancements. Check out Scott Guthrie's blog for details but here's a quick list of what's included:
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Using LINQ to Perform "WHERE IN (Value1,Value2)" Queries
I recently needed to select a few products from a database where the product ID matched up with a list of IDs. That's easy to do with a normal SQL statement since you can use the "WHERE IN (Value1,Value2)" clause to find what you need. However, I wanted to do it with LINQ in this case.
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Update To Deep Zoom Composer for Silverlight Released
