At SubMain we are collecting email addresses of the users who download trial version of our CodeIt.Right product as well as our free products - GhostDoc and .NET Coding Guidelines. We do that for two main reasons - we track download statistics and keep a point of contact with the users to provide t... [More]

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]

As found via Brad Abrams there is new great book is coming out - Framework Design Guidelines : Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries by Brad Abrams and Krzysztof Cwalina dedicated specifically to Design Guidelines of Frameworks with .NET 2.0. I think the book will be good ... [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]