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Not sure if I ever came out and said it before but yes, I too work at Avanade.  Avanade has relatively recently started a blog CS site so employees can go on there and post random thoughts on tech and personal stuff.  Now remember that Avanade Read More
As you might have guessed it I work on a lot in the XML namespace of .NET and I'm finally starting to use some of the new XmlReader features.  This post will go over some of them here.  And remember a wise man once said that Read More
I was doing what I typically do in my very small amount of down time I was reading my blog feeds from some of my favorite bloggers.  One blog that I read religiously is Brian Button.  I've had the pleasure to take part (a small one) in Read More
So one weekend morning I was wondering how I could quickly download all the different torrent files of my favorite technology podcasts.  So in ten minutes I created this.  And I'll be adding more shows to it as I find time.  It basically Read More
What would you like to see?  Seems the team is ramping up again to tackle the next version of the Ent Lib libraries.  Great stuff.  I love enterprise libraryand use it in almost every project I do.  Keep it up.   -B Read More
Have you ever wanted to upgrade a version of an assembly and not have to recomplie code?  One way to accomplish this is using assembly binding in your configuration file.  First make sure that both the old assembly and the new one use the same Read More
If you are like me (and who isn't?) then you want everything in one place.  You don't want to have to use 30 different tools that generally performs the same set of functions (MS is notorious for doing this).  So when I heard about getting the Read More
At its simpliest form a code snippet is nothing more than an xml file.  Here's a sample of the schema: <CodeSnippets xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005/CodeSnippet"> <CodeSnippet Format="1.0.0"> Read More
Here's a great list of the code snippets that come out of the box for VS2005. After typing in the shortcut then hit tab to let the snippet execute. #if Creates a #if directive and a #endif directive. Anywhere. #region Creates a #region Read More
This just in.  The patterns and practices team just released Enterprise Library for .NET 2.0.  Get it here.  There are some significant changes to the overall architecture, you can reading about them here.  Download and enjoy.   Read More
First you open visual studio and goto Tools in the Menu bar and all the way towards the bottom of the list you'll see External Tools (click on that).   Once that is open you will see a list of Menu Contents, to the right you will see an add and Read More
After doing this a few times I thought I'd write down the process: Goto the folder containing the solution files and delete the following: mssccprj.scc MyProject.vssscc vssser.scc Open the MyProject.sln in your text editor and remove the following Read More