While working, you will always find two things running on my machine. One is without any doubt Visual Studio and second is MSDN Library. Since this morning after installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1 I’ve been trying to get my hands on the latest MSDN Library. Thanks to Iftekhar who pointed me to the latest [...]

Introduction
At times us developers have to deal with delimited text files in our applications. Such files have been around since yonks and I often come across data import/export tasks where delimited files are used. Till now the common way in .NET has been to read each line and then extract data using some sort of [...]

Microsoft provides a Creative Commons addin for Microsoft Office 2007. This addin allows authors to embed CC licenses into Excel, Word and PowerPoint. After installing the addin you will see a new tab on the Ribbon.
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Yippeee! SP1 for .Net 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 has been released. This service pack includes ADO.NET Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services. There are WPF designer improvements and WPF performance improvements. You can find more details and download link here.
Finally I can now install SQL Server 2008 without disturbing the apple cart :)

Back in may I posted Part 1 of this series on my old blog. Looking at the statistics it turned out to be one of the highly visited post. Recently I also had a comment asking me when I was publishing other parts of study links. Continuing the same trend here is the second part [...]

While there is a lot of talk about refactoring tools such as Resharper and Refactor Pro, not much is said about refactoring features available in Visual Studio 2008 straight out of the box. I think Resharper and Refactor Pro are fantastic tools but they cost money and most of the time our refactoring needs are [...]

Go to Tools –> Options –> Text Editor –> All Languages and check Line numbers checkbox.

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SQL Server
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Event Log is a central place to log application events. These events can be errors, warnings or just information. Each event log entry in Windows Vista has a level of event, date and time the event occurred, source of event, an event Id and a task category. While event logs such as Application, System, Security [...]

StyleCop is a source analysis tool for C#. It can be used for analysing source code as opposed to compiled assemblies which is the area for FxCop. StyleCop is currently in version 4.2 and can be downloaded here. In this tutorial I will show you how to use StyleCop.
I will create a simple console application [...]

Microsoft Sync Framework has just been released. You can download the framework here. Sync Framework is already being used by ADO.NET Sync Services which provides.

Offline Database Synchronization
Collaboration Between Databases
SQL Server 2008 Integrated Change Tracking
Tracing capabilities for Synchronization process

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