John Papa is a professional Web Developer and storyteller. He currently leads the Academic Cloud Advocacy teams at Microsoft and formerly worked for Disney.
A buddy of mine recently struggled with one of those "I can't beleive I didn't see it" issues. It went something like this ... Assuming: * you have a C# Windows Form application * a WinForm * a DataGridView * a button called button1 * a valid connection string * a valid s
Recently Sahil posted [https://www.johnpapa.net/blogs/sahil.malik/archive/2005/09/11/131839.aspx] about his use of PromptSQL [http://www.promptsql.com], a relitvely inexpensive tool that provides intellisense for T-SQL. I totally agree with Sahil in that one area that has been lacking for way too lo
I was working with some friends on some unit testing when we recently ran across an issue that was caused by an uninteded use of an incrementor (++). It was quick fix but it is also something I have seen quite often, so I figured I would jot my thoughts down while it was fresh in my mind. So we
As I posted last week [https://www.johnpapa.net/blogs/john.papa/archive/2005/06/07/64248.aspx], I got up a new iPod mini [http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/70703/wo/e27TQK9bYtLU25UWo552kIaHoMA/1.0.0.11.1.0.6.9.1.1.1.1.1.0.0.1.0] for running and light soccer drills. It
Relatively basic stuff here, but I do like to stick to the KISS rule. I am often required to search SQL Server's stored procedures to find out which ones refer to specific fields, tables, or even variable names. Recently, I had to refactor several stored procedures defined a specific alias for a
