Would you use a drill to pre-drill a hole for a nail to hang a picture? I wouldn't either. Just hammer the nail into the wall. OK, need something more code related? Would you define a class with a single property and no other members just to store a string? Me neither. <FONT color=#008000&g

<FONT color=#800080>Tip: when installing SQL Server, consider using named instances. I recently installed SQL Server 2005 on my PC. It went fairly quick and installed with 0 issues. I was also quite pleased that it installed very nicely side by side with a SQL Server 2000 installation already

A very talented former colleague of mine has entered the world of blogging. You can check out all that The Zenker [http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/azenker/default.aspx] (Andreas Zenker) has to say at his new blog at http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/azenker/default.aspx.

We're all celebrating the recent advancements in .NET and other technologies like LINQ, XML in SQL Server and the fascinating tools like CodeRush [http://www.devexpress.com]and ReSharper [http://www.jetbrains.com]. But it struck me this week that we haven;t gone far enough in some areas ... like

Congratulations to Geoff [https://www.johnpapa.net/blogs/geoff.appleby] for getting his MVP award today. I also owe a great big thanks to those who nominated me and a thanks to the MVP team for awarding me with the MVP award. I was notified earlier today that I am now an MVP for Visual Developer - V