Getting Started with the Modern.ie VMs on VirtualBox with IIS Express

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Microsoft has made pre-packaged Virtual Machine images available for purposes of testing different versions of IE via the modern.ie web...

2014-05-22

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From Zero to Pull Request with Git on Windows

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• New York City .NET

I wrote a guide about using Git and GitHub for "Windows people".
This is the guide I wish was available when...

2014-04-22 (first published: 2014-04-16)

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Rounding versus truncating

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Be careful when implicitly converting data types in T-SQL.  Directly assigning 1.5 (either as a FLOAT or a NUMERIC) to...

2014-04-15

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Query to Find "Update" Dependencies on a Table or View (SQL Server 2012)

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The built-in dependency finder in SQL Server Management Studio does not provide the ability to distinguish between dependencies that are...

2013-07-23

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How To Make Your DLL Into A NuGet Package for a Private NuGet Feed

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This is my reinterpretation of the documentation on NuGet.org, modified to remove the public publishing steps, and to add local...

2013-06-05

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Performing an INSERT from a PowerShell script

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This code demonstrates how to do an INSERT into SQL Server from a PowerShell script using an ADO.NET command object...

2013-05-24

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Setting up an Internal Friendly URL

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• New York City .NET

Note: This solution is not necessarily the best or most efficient solution in all cases.  It is, however, very simple...

2013-02-27

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Using SkyDrive at Work for Collaboration - A Quick Start Guide

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• New York City .NET

It seems that many of my projects in the past year or so have required sharing files with external business...

2013-02-06

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Using Inline “With” Blocks to Augment a VB.NET Default Constructor

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Say you have a simple data transfer class that looks like this:
Public Class Employee
    Public Property Name As String
    Public...

2013-02-02

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IIS Express Quickie Command-line

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• New York City .NET

This is a reminder to my future self for how to quickly start IIS Express from the command-line on 64-bit...

2012-11-24

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