Enterprise Library [http://www.microsoft.com/practices] <P>There are some really good webcasts [http://www.pnplive.com/] on the different Enterprise Library Application Blocks [http://www.pnplive.com/]. You can download the slides, watch the video and grab some hands on code samples here [h

I’ve recently had a flurry of email asking how to navigate up to a grandparent table using ADO.NET. Assuming that it is not preferable to export all of the data to Xml and use an XPath, ADO.NET offers a few other ADO.NET based solutions. One solution is to use expression based columns. (If you want

I’ve been using BlogJet [http://blogjet.com/] for a few weeks now to post to my blog and while it has not overwhelmed me, it has proven to be a useful tool. Here are some quick observations that I have made regarding the pros and cons that are important to me: Pros: * It is nice to be able to pos

OK, so this isn’t rocket science, but then again some of the best things are the simplest. You can do a lot with the information_schema views in SQL Server. Here is a short stored procedure that you can use to find: * a table by its full name * a table by partial name * a column by its full

The July 2005 issue of MSDN Magazine [http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/07/default.aspx] is now available online. The amount of discussion that has surrounded the Enterprise Library and its Application Blocks (good, bad and indifferent) has been tremendous. I decided to create a 3 part ser