SQL Server provides three different ways to retrieve identity values generated by the database. Here is a detailed description of how they differ.

You can't run MSI or CAB files "As Administrator" directly from the explorer in Vista, but there's a workaround.

I am attending the ALT.NET open spaces conferences this weekend. The opening was last night and was my introduction to the whole open spaces concept (see the video of the opening at Jeffery Palermo's web site). So many of the bloggers that I follow are attending. It was great to meet them.

If you want to set the same value on a whole set of rows, you can use ActiveFocus powerful multi edit feature to save time.

After a Vista upgrade none of my .NET 3.5 web applications would run! Visual Studio gives a "Child nodes not allowed" error for the web.config file, but there is a simple solution - once you find it.

Today I refactored some code that has been bugging me for a while, and wanted to share the results. The change resulted in a substantial code reduction and what I felt was a more elegant solution.

Passing Microsoft Exam 70-315 Web Applications with Visual C# and Visual Studio.NET - A recent exam-taker's experience and tips for success.

How do you build a VisualStudio solution file without VisualStudio installed? Answer: MSBuild, but there is a gotchya.

Learn how and why to convert a scalar user-defined function to a table-valued one

My name is Angelo Martinez and I am new here at Falafel Software. I have known Lino Tadros for a long time and I can assure you that this is a great place to be! My hope is to start blogging on new ideas/tools/technologies that I discover along the way. With that in mind... I had a requirement to build a generic MRU (Most Recently Used) class based on a Key/Value pair. Among other things, the class contains methods such as Add(), Find() and a Count property that reports the number of items currently in the list. It would be nice to be able to build a set of unit tests to verify the functionality of the new class. For this, Visual Studio 2008 comes to the rescue!