Less Rules Imposed The Better

Recently I read an article from Jeff Atwood, where he basically claimed the brevity leads to better code. Personally I think his example he gave: if »

Understanding C#: ?? Operator

The ?? operator returns the left-hand operand if it is not null, or else it returns the right operand. int? i = null; int count = i ?? 0; The »

Creating a Vista like Search Box

Introduction In this post we are going to go over what it takes to create a control, and more specifically a Vista Search Box like control. »

Using Distributed Transactions in your Data Layer

Many developers use a pattern called ORM or Object Relation Mapping to generate data layers for their application. Many other developers choose to create their own »

How To: Unit Test Hidden Classes

Unit testing is an important part of developing high quality software. Many of you are probably not familiar with the term Unit Testing. Wikipedia defines Unit »

Visual Studio 2005 Update for Windows Vista

I was reading Tim Sneath's blog today and noticed his post on the release of a Visual Studio 2005 Update for Windows Vista was released. It »