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

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

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

I've developed .NET applications with both of these products in the past and they both have some great features that save a ton of time. It had been a while though since I last did a comparison, so I decided to put them up to the challenge once again. Here are my initial thoughts on the best pro

Here is a quick code example of how to send an email message from a web page using ASP.NET. First, I drew up a quick and dirty web page UI. <IMG src="/photos/jpapa/images/132245/original.aspx" border=0> I added some required field validator controls for the To, From and Message fie