Software Engineering 101 in Cleveland
Next week I'll be one of several speakers at a free one-day event
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.
Set Up Build Agents By Project in TeamCity
We're using TeamCity to manage our continous integration builds for CodeProject.com and LakeQuincy.com. Before TeamCity, I was using CruiseControl.net, and TeamCity is much easier to get working (and requires far less …
How Can I Determine The Current Controller or Action in an Html Helper
If you're writing an HTML Helper for ASP.NET MVC you may want to do
Budding Versus Festering Code
This is in response to [Michael Feathers' recent post on Festering
Disable Hibernation on Servers
Here's a quick tip if you should find several GB of your system
Default Encoding of Strings in ASP.NET MVC 2
If you have ASP.NET MVC 1 code you are moving to ASP.NET MVC 2 (and ASP.NET 4) you are likely to encounter a problem in which your application starts displaying encoded HTML on the page
Tagging Releases in Source Control
A best practice when you're using source control is to tag your
Great Uses of Using Statement in C#
In my last post about [testing emails in .NET](https://ardalis.com/testing-email-sending), I noted the use of the using statement to ensure safe usage of the IDisposable SmtpClient and MailMessage objects.
SQL Server Error User Group or Role Already Exists in the Current Database
If you restore a database and then try to login to it, you’re likely to run into this wonderful SQL Error: User, group, or role ‘whatever’ already exists in the current database (Microsoft SQL Server, …
Moving a Certificate Between Web Servers
I'm in the process of moving [Lake Quincy Media's web