This post is another in the recent string of How-to's. But it is just so hard to resist. .Net 3.5 has so many cool features, it is just fun to explore them all. Ok, so here is the issue we are going to solve today. We have a list of entities and we need to sort them. In this post I will show you...
In my continuing effort to become educated on the MVC framework, I stubbed my toe on something today. I setup a simple edit screen and I wanted to updated the data on that screen to the database. I built my edit form by using the Html helper methods (Html.TextBox to be exact), but I made a few mistakes...
Today I was trying to put together a simple NAnt build script for a 'play' project of mine. This build script is real simple, it only calls MSBuild right now. However, when I was running the script I kept getting the message 'error MSB4126: The specified solution configuration "Debug...
This is my first go at playing with Linq. So far it is pretty cool, but I wanted to share something because I found it painful. I wanted query a list and then cast a anonymous type to a static type. I was not able to find anything on the net to help me with this (could be i just did not look in the right...
Today I had a weird issue, I could not log into SQL Management studio because my default database had been deleted (it was no longer needed). Every time I would try to log in, I would get the following dialog. At first I was kind of stumped, I did not know what to do other then email the DBA to ask him...