I have been trying since yesterday to install the RTM of SQL 2008. But once I have selected the components to install I get a failure during the check of installation rules. The rule failing is “Previous releases of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008”. I have »
I have been working on a project which uses a data access layer (DAL) to wrap some LINQ to SQL calls to the database. While I’ve played with LINQ to SQL a bit, this was my first time working on a production application. So as I wrote some of the business »
I just read an announcement today about Microsoft Visual Studio Middle School Power Toy 1.0. I’ve always been interested in passing on my love for programming to my kids. I have a 9-year-old who I’d like to introduce to programming in a simple way, but »
Been wanting to get to this part of development for a while now and since I struggled a bit to get this working I thought it would make a good post. With the release of the .NET Framework 3.5 WCF seems to be growing in popularity (or maybe it’s just me »
I ran into a link for IETester today. Supposedly, you can use it to test a site in different IE versions. But it’s in alpha, I’m curious if anyone has had experience with the company or has been doing any significant evaluation of IETester up to this »
A friend of mine recently was the victim of identity theft. Fortunately, for him the bank caught it before any damage was done. But essentially a key logger was installed on his computer which exposed all his personal account information and logins to »