Articles Tagged 'sql'
Everyone who maintains code knows that duplicated code is bad. While OOP languages like C# (and even xml "languages" like MSBuild ) provide ways to refactor, SQL seems lacking in such features. If you run a similarity-analyzer ( like Simian ), you...
We recently got some great new Mix09 sessions posted.   Here are a few that I think are cool as they directly relate to what my team is doing.. if you can make to Vegas, please come by.. if you can’t, don’t worry all the sessions will be on line...
Of course all official code should ultimately be stored in source control (real source control, not VSS ). However, when creating an automated build on a build server, getting the source code may not be as easy as just doing a single SVN checkout....
DevTopics C# 411
3/3/2009
Want insight into the design and development of C#? Then check out these blogs by key members of the Microsoft C# development team: C# Compiler Team Matt Warren Matt Warren is a member of the Visual C# compiler team, recently acquired from the SQ...
CodeSmith is a powerful code generator (worth its weight in gold). And while one of the most popular things to automatically generate is the data access layer, there's a lot more to CodeSmith than just wrapping databases: System data - Given an xm...
Scott Hanselman
2/28/2009
My one-hundred-and-fifty-first podcast is up . Ward Cunningham is the creator of the Wiki, and the creator of the "Fit" testing framework. James Shore is the coordinator of the Fit project, an agile coach and the author of The Art of Agile Develop...
Scott on Writing
2/26/2009
My Toolbox column in the March 2009 issue of MSDN Magazine is available online. The March issue of MSDN Magazine has a focus on the Web and my reviews in Toolbox follow suit and include: The Ajax Data Controls Project - The Ajax Data Controls ...
The Angry .Net Developer
2/16/2009
Why write data access code when we have ORMs? Remember data access patterns? It seems like there is a huge focus these days placed on Linq, ADO.Net Entity Framework, and other ORM-like tools that are intended to make programmers more efficient by...
Scott on Writing
2/3/2009
If you are using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 there are some cool new additions to the T-SQL syntax that can help save you a few keystrokes. For example, with T-SQL 2008 you can now (finally) assign a value to a variable when it is declared, like so:...
For any software project, there's always something new to research. Even if the flood of new technology suddenly freezes, most projects would still struggle just to catch up to the existing technology. While a lot of small to mid-size departments ...