David Connell Mapping of .NET Assembly attributes to File Version Information Attributes. .NET automatically generates a FileInformation resource when building the assembly. Here is a mapping of the .NET attribute to the... 30 November 2005 1 min read
Richard Mitchell The new SQL Data Compare beta The new SQL Data Compare beta is about to be released and I hope you all get a chance to... 29 November 2005 2 min read
Douglas Reilly Database Geek of the Week: Scott Forsyth Scott is the director of IT for a premier web hosting company called ORCS Web, and has spent a lot... 29 November 2005 12 min read
Dominick Reed Cat detective Ahhh… now… er… that shouldn’t happen. Oooh, yup, that’s not at all clear. Purrr, Meow, Purrr. Hmmm… they’re not finding... 25 November 2005 3 min read
Bart Read .NET Oddities #3 OK, so I’ll admit this is a bit cheeky: this entry should almost certainly be .NET Oddities #2a because it’s... 24 November 2005 2 min read
David Connell Wild card registering COM dlls When developing a COM based application sometimes it’s sometimes useful to register all the DLLs/OCX at once.From a command prompt... 23 November 2005 1 min read
David Connell Debugging Arbitrary thread stacks in .NET Check out John Robbins November 05 Bugslayer article.. He has ported his excellent SUPERASSRT code from native C++ into C#.... 23 November 2005 1 min read
Richard Mitchell Type safe collections I must admit that creating a nice type safe collection for a new feature in one of our products took... 23 November 2005 2 min read
Dan Archer Wing Dings Occasionally when developing software you come across really absurd or bizarre bugs. The user interface for the application I’m currently... 22 November 2005 3 min read
James Moore SQL Data Compare: Comparing Views In case you haven’t come across this before you can actually compare two views in SQL Data Compare. The only... 22 November 2005 1 min read
Douglas Reilly Database Geek of the Week: Adam Machanic Adam is a Microsoft MVP and a Microsoft Certified Professional. He speaks at Code Camps and has just become an... 22 November 2005 10 min read
Helen Joyce SQL Backup 4.0 BETA is ready! Phew… on November 15th an email went out to a select group of SQL Server DBA’s, Developers and other potential... 21 November 2005 2 min read
David Connell Always set Warnings as Errors How many of us have developed some code only to find the compiler outputs some warnings such as unused parameter,... 18 November 2005 1 min read
Allan Mitchell DTS to SSIS Migration Determining how you will upgrade your DTS packages to SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is the first step in creating... 18 November 2005 9 min read
Phil Factor Secrets of successful IT projects The database mole shares his secrets of successful IT projects, and pitfalls to avoid.… 17 November 2005 11 min read
Dominick Reed Humbling times It’s that time again. Time to leave the comfy confines of the office, brave the real world and meet the... 15 November 2005 2 min read
Richard Mitchell Who am I? This is the first post in my Red Gate Blog so I think I’d better introduce myself a little bit.... 15 November 2005 1 min read
James Moore An interesting article about ASP.NET and SQL Server Performance While reading through the excellent http://blogs.msdn.com/ I noticed this post by Todd Carter talking abount ASP.NET and SQL Server Performance, in it... 15 November 2005 1 min read
James Moore Breaking changes between Beta 2 and the RTM of .NET 2.0 David C sent me an interesting link about the breaking changes between Beta 2 and the RTM, you can find... 09 November 2005 1 min read
David Connell XP SP1/SP2 system DLL’s Last week I found out that sometimes XP SP1 dlls are labelled as xpsp2. A client had DLLs that were labelled xpsp2 for... 09 November 2005 1 min read