I just learned some very interesting things about WPF, Splash screens and Visual Studio 2008 SP1...

See some business rules can be enforced using only declarative referential integrity.

With Expression Blend it's quite easy to style your own custom ScrollBar to get the look you want.

Steve was in Cambridge 2 weeks ago teaching a TestComplete class and while he was sightseeing with the rest of the class attendees, they insisted to take his picture with this sign :)

 

Good job Steve!

Need to capture popups or tooltips in your screen shots? It's easy with the Windows Vista Snipping Tool.

In my previous blog about dependency properties, I detailed a helper class that you can add to any non-DependencyObject class to give you access to dependency properties in that class. To start off with, we need to add a couple of new static functions to our helper class to handle adding bindings with converters.

Continuous Integration in a nutshell. A brief overview of the what, why and how of CI.

Writing code that builds SQL is a powerful technique, but it can also be risky. Failing to implement these techniques could leave your database open to attack by SQL injection. Read on to learn how to secure dynamic SQL from SQL injection vulnerability.