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]

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]

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]

If you get depressed after looking at the standard Visual Studio coloring theme for years, try changing it. Scott Hanselman posted a gallery of ready to use themes to any taste - http://www.hanselman.com/blog/VisualStudioProgrammerThemesGallery.aspx  I like Jeff Atwood's (CodingH... [More]

CodeIt.Right is finally finished after about 3 years in the making. My 7 years long dream come true. The tool it out! Cheers! (I truly believe that code analysis coupled with automatic refactoring will change the way .NET developer teams and solo developers work!) Read this blog post to fin... [More]

I've been working on this for some time now but finally I'm happy to announce we have obtained exclusive distribution rights to the latest version of Steve Sartain's C#/VB .NET Coding Guidelines 100+ page ebook, and are offering free download. More info - http://submain.com/blog/F... [More]

Those of you who are subscribed to our VBFeeds have only seen one side of the coin ;-) Today the other side has become available - Steve Smith launched similar C# Feeds service: Today CSharpFeeds officially goes live.  This is a pet project of mine and Gregg Stark’s based on ... [More]

This one has been coming back at me for some time. I've installed one of those Vista Skins for XP over 6 months ago - yes, I can blame Stuart for that :) and then replaced Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 with the RTM version when it was released early in November of last year. Since then I've been having ... [More]

This one is very handy and yet not very intuitive - I keep forgetting it and search every time I got to replace a field value when editing table content in Enterprise Manager. Posting it here, so I don't have to search again and also this may help you too :) When you manually update ... [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]