The latest DevCity.NET newsletter (July 15, 2005) is uploaded to the site. In this issue: Diary of a .NET Newbie: Don't Quote Me .NET Upgraders: Evolving to VB.NET. Part 5 - Creating YOUR Top 10 Reasons to Adopt Visual Basic .NET .NET Upgraders: Disabling Ctrl+Alt+Del in Windows X... [More]

I have SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 on my laptop for few months and every now and then I find my laptop to be very sluggish. In the task manager sqlservr.exe shows 98-99%. It is only a week ago I found why that might happen and a workaround. I noticed that SQL only eats up the CPU when I ha... [More]

While posting my previous entry today I went to Victor Shatochin's blog again and found fresh info recently released Shareware Starter Kit: The Shareware Starter Kit (SSK) enables you to integrate important shareware management features into most .NET applications.  By providing highly custom... [More]

Found this last month but only now found time to blog about it. While browsing back in June I stumbled upon Victor Shatochin's blog - fella who is based in my hometown - Kharkov, Ukraine. The blog is mostly in Russian, some Ukrainian and some English. The post on Victor's blog I... [More]