Articles Tagged 'sql'
Scott Hanselman
1/13/2010
First, let me start this post by thanking Tatham Oddie . He helped my buddy John Batdorf and I debug our issue remotely from Australia. He's patient, kind, opinionated and Tatham's got a darn fine blog that you should subscribe to now . I also fou...
Scott on Writing
1/8/2010
My (final) Toolbox column in the January 2010 issue of MSDN Magazine is available online and includes the following reviews: Balsamiq Mockups For Desktop - Balsamiq Mockups is a lightweight, easy-to-use UI mockup tool that combines the speed, sim...
One of Steve McConnell's tips from his great book on estimating ( Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art ) is that you should not estimate that which you can easily count. Estimating database table sizes is a great example of this. Sure, ...
Ran into an odd behavior today with a many to many mapping of one of my tables in LINQ to SQL. Many to many mappings aren’t transparent in LINQ to SQL and it maps the link table the same way the SQL schema has it when creating one. In other words ...
Paging in ASP.NET has been relatively easy with stock controls supporting basic paging functionality. However, recently I built an MVC application and one of the things I ran into was that I HAD TO build manual paging support into a few of my page...
Scott Hanselman
12/10/2009
My one-hundred-and-ninety-first podcast is up . Scott's on campus and talks to Nathan Brixius, a Senior Developer working on the Microsoft Solver Foundation library. Solver Foundation helps break down complex multi-variable problems in a clean, de...
Charlie Calvert
12/9/2009
A couple of us are working on finding a way to surface key links to information in the MSDN library. Perhaps later we will also link to information found throughout the community websites. If we can find the right approach, we might canonize these...
Scott on Writing
12/1/2009
My Toolbox column in the December 2009 issue of MSDN Magazine is available online and includes the following reviews: Huagati DBML/EDMX Tools - a Visual Studio Add In that improves the LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework Designers, allowing you to ...
I am yet to find a proper sample on how to do realistic Test Driven Development (TDD) and how to write proper unit tests for complex business applications, that gives you enough confidence to stop doing manual tests anymore. Generally the samples ...
Charlie Calvert
11/20/2009
Data Microsoft SQL Server Library SQL Server Books Online SQL Server Online Resources CTP, Troubleshooting Microsoft MSDN SQL Server Online Resources CTP, Troubleshooting Microsoft TechNet What's New (SQL Server 2008) GettingStarted Creating Y...