I’ve done quite a bit of MDB upsizing to SQL Server in the past. And it works just like a snap - you go to Tools -> Database Utilities -> Upsizing Wizard, choose your destination server, couple of clicks, bang - you are done! So, when I needed to import a MS Access 2007 database into SQL 2008... [More]

Silverlight Toolkit was updated in the March 2009 release with Visual Basic examples added. My compliments to Silverlight Team! Here is what Microsoft says: The Silverlight Toolkit March 2009 release is enhanced with Visual Basic source code for both Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3. The Toolk... [More]

Microsoft Patterns & Practices' Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight (formerly code-named Prism) which initially was released only for C# is now made available by Microsoft in VB.NET as well! The Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight is designed to help you ... [More]

  Couldn't we just use ASP.MVC for ASP.NET MVC? Seriously, it’s based on .NET Framework but got no WebForms nor Controls of ASP.NET; no ugly PostBack and ViewState either; only nice clean markup and Model-View-Controller pattern. A 21st century hack to 20th century go... [More]

When generating parts of the page dynamically using JavaScript it is handy to see the HTML code that your script is actually generating. IE8 comes with View Generated Source context menu but it is a bit wonky. I had very little luck using it - it would show up in the but not on the pages that I w... [More]

There is a controversy in the software development industry about quality. To many people, quality is expensive, and lower quality means cheaper development which means financial savings. This very simplistic thinking leads to spending less on qualified developers, less solid testing and fixes ... [More]

Many times when I needed to convert RGB color from Hex (like #3399CC) to Dec (like (51, 153, 204)) between HTML editor and image editor. I would normally pull up Calculator.exe which I keep in Scientific mode so I could convert each of the Red, Green and Blue components of the color manually...... [More]