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

So far the VS.NET 2005 Releaes Candidate has ben a smooth ride. The install went very smooth, the app loaded with no hiccups and many of my beta 2 projects ran just fine. Of course, its still early, but I am happy so far. <growl>So now I want to jump into the September CTP of SQL Server 2005

One cool feature that I just love are the expression based columns in ADO.NET. I do not use them often but when I do find cause to use them, they are very useful. (Not to mention very cool.) One good use of expression columns in a DataSet is when you want to load a column into a DataGrid but you don

I love the neat little features. You know, the ones that aren't earth shattering but still get you excited over the simplicity involved. To me, the .NET 2.0 Framework's System.Configuration [http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2a1tyt9s.aspx] namespace's ConfigurationManager [http:/