SQL Server Modeling CTP (November 2009 Release 3) for Visual Studio 2010 RTM Now Available

Here’s what Kraig has to say about the November 2010 SQL Server Model CTP that matches the RTM of Visual Studio 2010: A update of the SQL Server...

The performance implications of IEnumerable vs. IQueryable

It all started innocently enough. I was implementing a “Older Posts/Newer Posts” feature for my new web site and was writing code like this: The...

College info for my sophomore

I went to a college planning sessions at my sons’ high school not because I’m hung up on getting my Sophomore into a top school, but because I...

Updated the CsvFileTester for Jet 4.0

I was playing around building a tool to let me edit a database table in Excel, so I updated my CvsFileTester project to work in a modern world,...

you may experience some technical difficulties

I’ve been futzing with the site and I’ve got more to do, so unexpected things may happen. Last weekend I screwed with the RSS generator and that...

On Building a Data-Driven E-Commerce Site

The following is a preprint of an article for the NDC Magazine to be published in Apri. It had been a long, hard week at work. I had my feet up...

The incomplete list of impolite WP7 dev requests

In my previous list of WP7 user requests, I piled all of my user hopes and dreams for my new WP7 phone (delivery date: who the hell knows) onto the...

Creating a Lazy Sequence of Directory Descendants in C#

My dear friend Craig Andera posted an implementation of a function that descends into a directory in a “lazy” manner, i.e. you get the first...