In the March issue of MSDN Magazine's Data Points column [http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc337893.aspx] I explore a variety of the Standard Query Operators and how they work with LINQ. Here is a summary of the article: In this month's column I will perform practical queries and

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

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

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

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