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Static Lookup Data Generators for Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition

Updated: Now that the Power Tools for VS2008 have been released , I recommend that you use the Sequential Databound Generator, FileBound Generator , and Data Generation Wizard for these scenarios. A while back , I put up a sample implementation of a custom data generator for VS 2005, to allow the generation...

Posted to .NET Stuff - Thomas Waldron (Weblog) by twaldron on 01-08-2008
ASP.NET Debug=true Performance Considerations

I'm sure, like me, you've seen plenty of production web.config files with debug=true set. Most senior ASP.NET developers will recognize that debug should be set to false for the production build. However, this small detail is often over looked. So what does this setting really do and does it...

Posted to Dennis J. Bottjer | MVP ASP.NET (Weblog) by dbottjer on 10-10-2007
Data Generation with Static Lookup Tables in VSTS Database Edition

Download source files for this post - includes some extra files for supporting techniques in this article Recently, I've been working a lot with VSTS DB Edition, in the hopes of fully-integrating database projects in my day-to-day development and unit-testing activities. As a whole, VSTS DB is an...

Posted to .NET Stuff - Thomas Waldron (Weblog) by twaldron on 08-15-2007
Visual Studio - Always Show Solution

In Visual Studio 2005, if you have a solution open, with only one project attached to it, the solution file is not visible in the Solution Explorer window. This can be slightly annoying, since right-clicking the solution file from this window is a quick way to add another project (the alternative being...

Posted to .NET Stuff - Thomas Waldron (Weblog) by twaldron on 08-15-2007
Determining the framework version under which an assembly was compiled

Here is a quick and easy way to determine the version of the framework, under which an assembly was compiled (code written using SnippetCompiler ): using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Reflection; public class MyClass { public static void Main() { Assembly a = Assembly.LoadFile...

Posted to .NET Stuff - Thomas Waldron (Weblog) by twaldron on 07-30-2007
Why "SET NOCOUNT ON" Sucks

As I mentioned in a previous post , David Hayden sat in the front row and gave me an especially hard time about ‘set nocount on’ as a tip. I don’t remember the exact words, so I’m going to have to roughly paraphrase. His complaint was that some data access layers or object relational mapping tools or...

Posted to roy ashbrook (Weblog) by royashbrook on 07-17-2007
Odds and Ends

Stuff I've been intending to post a meaningful post about, but haven't: If you have ever wondered what ildasm is all about, here's a great link. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/01/05/bugslayer/ Simple SQLCLR stored Proc deployment Walthrough: http://blogs.msdn.com/vsdata/archive...

Posted to roy ashbrook (Weblog) by royashbrook on 06-30-2007
Top 5 SOS.dll Tips

5 things I wish I had known or done prior to attempting to work with SOS.dll and windbg.exe: sos.dll needs to be in the path for windbg in order to load it you can .load %full path to sos.dll% instead of .load sos mscorwks or other statements SOS for .NET 2.0 does *NOT* have all the commands the .NET...

Posted to roy ashbrook (Weblog) by royashbrook on 06-24-2007
unicode paths in windows

something cool i've never heard of. quoted from http://blogs.msdn.com/dougste/ about a path value of \\?\C:\WEBSites\WWWMyApp\scripts: First of all, what is illegal about this path? Well, nothing, if you are a Unicode Win32 API. As you can read in Naming a File on MSDN, certain Unicode Win32 file...

Posted to roy ashbrook (Weblog) by royashbrook on 06-24-2007
command cancel vs close

There are a ton of articles about using command cancel vs close when you are using a datareader. The idea is that it will make things faster if you cancel the command rather than just closing it if you have an occasion to interrupt the execution. If you don’t cancel, it seems that it will read the rest...

Posted to roy ashbrook (Weblog) by royashbrook on 05-03-2007

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