In a project I’m working on, and using LINQ, there have come a few times when I have needed to create my own SQL and send a query to the database. This has typically happened when I’m not doing queries that aren’t very straight forward, but I still want to accomplish the task with only [...]

For a project at work, I have been developing an ASP.Net app using .Net version 3.5. I have been using the built in Cassini web server for development, but finally the moment of truth came to put it on IIS on our development server and I had a few hickups. I am using Windows Server [...]

Sometimes you have a library running outside of your traditional debug mode, but would like to call into it with a debugger. I specifically ran into this with a custom installer dll called by a custom action in my MSI. The following code will allow the process itself to request debugging. Then you can specify [...]

I am using VS 2008 and LINQ (specifically LINQ to SQL) for a project at work right now. As I jump into this, I am going to document some of the pros, cons, and “gotchas” that I come across. Any articles in this series will have the label “LINQ” . Here is my first list [...]

For a project at work we were building deployment projects for some fairly large web applications. 300-600 MB after compression on disk. When the deployment project would build, it would fail with the following result: “ERROR: Could not find file ‘xxxxx.xxx ‘Not enough storage is available to complete this operation.’” After googling around, I found [...]