OK, so it has taken me a long time to give in and join the growing group of developers who use 2 or more monitors. Some of my colleagues have been using them for years and touting the incredible convenience that it is to have 2 monitors. I don’t really have a good reason why I never did it other tha

AsI mentioned in a blog last week [https://www.johnpapa.net/blogs/john.papa/archive/2005/05/13/63162.aspx], I downloaded two refactoring tools: .NET Refactor [http://www.knowdotnet.com/articles/netrefactorproducthome.html] andReSharper [http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/]. I had some really horribl

OK, I don't want to leave out the C# developers from this VB.NET OOP example that Raymond [https://www.johnpapa.net/blogs/raymond.lewallen] posted recently [https://www.johnpapa.net/blogs/raymond.lewallen/archive/2005/04/26/62457.aspx]. So here is one way to accomplish this code in C#. Inher

The DataSet.DataSetName is a cool property that is easily overlooked. Here is an example of where it comes in handy. Let’s say you want to load an XML fragment into a DataSet that was retrieved via SQL Server’s FOR XML clause. You might try doing the following: <FIELDSET>XmlReader oMyXmlRe

ASPSOFT [http://www.aspsoft.com/] has released Trailer #2 for Project Rally [http://www.aspsoft.com/rallytrailer2.html], which will be unveiled at Tech Ed [http://www.microsoft.com/events/teched2005/default.mspx](June 5–10 in Orlando, FL). And in case you missed it, you can check out Trailer #1 for