Today the final release of BlogEngine.NET version 1.5 is released.   Kudos++ First many kudos to the project team for keeping it alive and listening to the users. The same goes to the team behind OneSoft.dk for their work on porting great themes, such as the one I am currently using. Excelle... [More]

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) has a bit of a steep learning curve. It’s a different way of thinking, but it is a great addition for providing insight in complex processes. Whilst enterprise architectures mostly focus on BizTalk as a standalone server, WF is meant to be a more core-based ad... [More]

Today I found a great feature, hidden in the PowerCommands add-in for Visual Studio: the self-titled quick close button. Let me elaborate. When I tried to run project A, a modest WCF service project all went well. When I ran project B, also a WCF project, the Visual Studio IDE immediately vanished.... [More]

By tradition it was always quite a challenge to create custom filtering on objects and dynamically query databases. Or to say least a lot of work. LINQ makes this type of querying in code much easier. In this article I wish to elaborate on the "how-to" and advantages of providing a dynamic and type-... [More]

SQL Server has a large fanbase of stored procedures enthusiasts. Including obviously DBA's, but also developers. The latter foremost considering that with storedprocs you can easily shovel responsibility at those who are responsible for maintaining data-integrity. Unfortunately, the ADO.NET Entity ... [More]