Converters in WPF are quite possibly the most useful tool that I’ve used in the relatively short time I’ve spent developing WPF applications.  They give the ability to format data, style controls, and more, based on the value supplied from a binding.  And it doesn’t even have to be a binding to a data source.  [...]

While preparing for an upcoming exam I was looking into the usage of Html Helpers with MVC2 and thought it may be simple to easily add extension methods for Jquery UI controls. I have had several sites that have utilized multiple Jquery UI DatePicker controls and it would be a great time saver to simply [...]

Recently for a client we decided to utilize SQL 2008 Filestreams for handling their library of documents. A requirement with Filestreams is that SQL needs to maintain the creation of the GUID for each item. Since we were using the Entity Framework 4 (EF4) for the data model we ran into a rather common problem [...]

Using Logging Application Block provided by Enterprise Library is a common way of logging exceptions in .NET applications.  It’s easy to setup and to use.  One problem I had a while ago was that it worked while on my development PC, but stopped working once it’s deployed.
What I was doing was to use it to [...]

In one of the projects I’m currently working on, I have to handle multiple SQL operations in one transaction, so if anything goes wrong in a particular operation, things done in previous operations can be rolled back automatically.  This can be done by using Transaction in a Stored Procedure directly, but you might lose some [...]