[https://www.johnpapa.net/wp-content/uploads/files/media/image/WindowsLiveWriter/ExpressionStudio2ReadyForDownload_94A5/x_2.jpg] Expression Studio 2 [http://www.microsoft.com/expression/] is out of beta and has been released. I've been using the betas and they have been pretty good, but its ni

Tony Davis [http://www.simple-talk.com/community/blogs/tony_davis/default.aspx] of Simple-Talk.com [http://www.simple-talk.com/] sent me a message today letting me know that they are releasing  an eBook called "Best of Simple-Talk" and that one of my articles [http://www.simple-talk.com/a

I've been using some javascript snippet that generates a DotNetKicks [http://www.dotnetkicks.com] KickIt image for a blog post. I found the javascript to insert the KickIt link in a post by Jon Galloway [http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2007/03/08/adding-a-dotnetkicks-image-via-javascrip

I'm all for quick and easy examples especially when it comes to LINQ, so here goes one that I get asked a lot. This is a quick example that shows how to grab a few properties from a parent entity and use an aggregate function on the parent entity's children entities. Specifically, this examp

The NFL draft just ended this past weekend. I am a big NY Giants fan and we had a great year last year and a very enjoyable Super Bowl. The Giants had a fantastic draft in 2007 where all of their picks made the team and most of them contributed heavily to their Super Bowl run and victory. But did yo