Fortune magazine released their Top 100 companies to work for list. At number one is NetApp who are having a Slashdot effect after achieving number 1 spot on the list. Interesting findings are Google at number 4 and beloved Microsoft slipping to number 38. While I take these lists with a pinch of salt, they [...]

I have a confession to make. When I saw var keyword for the first time I did not like it at all. My first opinion was that var was so variant like. Call me a control freak but I like to clearly see what I am declaring. And var was something I thought made the [...]

If you are an Architect or a Developer then I highly recommend that you read Application Architecture Guide from Patterns & Practices team at Microsoft. In recent years .Net Framework has grown tremendously to include technologies such as WPF, WCF, WF over the standard offerings such as ASP.NET, Windows Forms and BCL. How does [...]

Earlier I wrote a post showing how to write a LINQ query which gets transformed into a T-SQL query with a "Where In" clause. I had a comment on the post by Steve saying that the approach only works with strings. In this post I will show you a similar query which works with Integers.
Let’s [...]

Over last few days I have been off from work and for the first time in many years I have actually stayed away from computing over Christmas break. This has been very good for me. I genuinely feel relaxed, recharged, refreshed and by all means ready to take on another year. I have setup few [...]

I wish all readers of One .Net Way a very Happy New Year. Let 2009 be an year of learning. I know it will be for me.

I had a look at LINQPad few months ago when I wrote about how you can use this tool to view generated LINQ To SQL Queries. There is not doubt that LINQPad comes in as a very handy tool when writing LINQ queries. But writing queries in LINQPad has not been that easy. Until Now!
LINQPad [...]

A question was posted on c-sharpcorner forums asking how you would remove duplicate lines from a text file. It got me thinking about how this problem could be addressed using LINQ. Before I get into the solution, here is the problem statement.
The problem
I am trying to remove duplicate lines from a text file. To [...]

CCC stands for Cloud Computing Consultant. There, I have said it. This is my contribution to acronyms-land. I have also cleverly designed it to minimize RSI which I am sure will be appreciated. You only have to use one key to type the acronym. If you ever come across the term Cloud Computing Consultant [...]

According to Market Share Google Chrome has 1% of browser market share. I am sure I must be a part of that statistics because I have Chrome installed on one of machines, and I think of it as just another browser. Although integrating search into address bar is a clever feature but again it is [...]

Amazon has launched a Microsoft Branded Store where you can browse through all Microsoft Press and other Microsoft related books. I am an Amazon addict and this has just given me one more excuse to spend more time on the site. I’m now waiting for them to sell Microsoft T-shirts and novelty items.

Sometime ago I wrote a post showing how to do dynamic sort with LINQ. That approach worked well with LINQ To Objects. Today I spotted a question on the forums where Levi asked a question about doing dynamic sorts with LINQ To SQL. My earlier approach will work once all the data is retrieved on [...]