I write this post with a mix of excitement and sadness. The exciting part is that I am helping form a new developer community site at http://www.TheRuntime.com . The sad part is that I will no longer be blogging at Codebetter. When Codebetter was first formed, myself and several other bloggers from DotNetJunkies...

All in all, it's been a pretty fun week so far. My favorite sessions by far were Rocky's architecture session and David Platt's jam packed session on Why Software Sucks . Rocky and David are both very engaging speakers who use humor and make the audience feel comfortable in interacting with...

Nuff Said.

Now if that title isn't a mouthful, I don't know what is. Anyways, this is something mostly for my benefit because I conveniently forget about this little trick and then have to go rooting through my code to remember and I'd rather have Google index it for me. =) So I have this nifty little...

Ready to pull my hair out over this one. Decided to use System.Transactions in my latest project, so being I'm doing my development on my local machine with a dev SQL Server 2005 install on a 2k3 machine I need to turn on MSDTC stuff... So running the code that uses system.transactions on the server...

It is undeniable that the blogosphere is becoming a prime time source of networking, information, and advertising. With this in mind, we've been watching the evolution of blogging. Authors like Scott Hanselman and Sahil Malik, business owners like Joel Spolsky and Eric Sink all are using the blogosphere...

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Anyone who is new to the world of ASP .NET, or new to the concepts of inheritence in general probably is missing out on a great way to organize their ASP .NET application. When you first create a webform and switch to code view you are faced with the following statement (c#): public class YourPage :...

Grant Killian has a good article about why a coder shouldn't use try-catch blocks in just any situation. I am ashamed to admit that back when I first started using .NET I was guilty of the sin he speaks of. What I wanted to add to his post was another very common poor usage of try-catch I have seen many...