Live Essentials Evilness
Hey, Microsoft, please stop trying to reset my home page and change my search preferences when I install the one tool from Live Essentials that I find useful, Live Writer (which is awesome, by the way). I’m pretty …
Blog Posts
MANY articles on a wide array of topics. You’ll find a lot of my newer content is going to my YouTube channel first, but I do still blog occasionally.
ViewBag does not exist in current context
If you're working with the ASP.NET MVC 3 MvcMusicStore demo and you run into the error message:
Entity Framework Invalid Object Name dbo.Albums
Continuing in working with the MVC Music Store sample application, the next thing I ran into after installing the SQL database by hand, was an error on the home page:
Creating a WHERE NOT EXISTS or WHERE NOT IN Query Using LLBLGen
Consider a scenario where you have a many-to-many relationship, but
Sharp XV-Z9000U Projector Wont Power Up - Solution
I have a fairly old projector that recently required a new bulb. It’s a Sharp XV-Z9000U model, which has bulbs that last for something like 2000 hours, and the projector has a timer in it that starts warning you …
Lessons Learned Performing Harry Potter Book Kata
Last week at CodeMash I went through the Harry Potter Book Kata
How do I Change Where MSMQ Messages are Stored or Persisted?
If you are using MSMQ, either directly or with the help of a package like NServiceBus, you may encounter errors if your server becomes overloaded with messages either due to high load or as a result of a failure in your …
Introducing Command Query Responsibility Separation (CQRS)
The Command Query Responsibility Separation (CQRS) pattern is an enterprise pattern that can be used to increase the performance, scalability, and reliability of distributed applications that may experience heavy load. …
Unit Test Naming Convention
I've been writing tests and unit tests for quite a while, and naturally my personal preference for naming them has evolved somewhat with time.