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Ever want to know if you have 3.5 SP1 installed?  Shown below are two ways to determine. 1.) Take a look at HKLM\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v3.5 Shown below are two servers.  The top one does not have SP1 installed while the … Continue reading →

I have moved my web log to the following location http://blog.davidyardy.com/ My RSS feed can be found at http://feeds.feedburner.com/davidyardy From this RSS feed you can view all log entries on my new and old blog location. It was time to … Continue reading →

When saving files from within Studio I was prompted  to "Save As", "Overwrite", or "Cancel".  I thought it was very odd.  I then looked around and noticed that none of my files displayed the typical source control lock.  It looked … Continue reading →

For years I have been doing something similar to the following: DECLARE @list varchar(200)SET @list =”SELECT @list = COALESCE(@list + ‘,’,”) + DisplayName FROM Customers Here COALESCE returns the first thing in the list that is not null.  This can … Continue reading →

This is an issue that is good to put in the memory banks.  In QA     exec sproc ‘{put string in here > 128 characters}’   — it works fine     exec sproc "{put string in here > 128 characters}" — this doesn’t … Continue reading →

I have been chasing this NullReferenceException for a while.   I found the following information that appears to be an answer to my problem.  I am surprised that there is not more information published regarding usage of cache with threading etc. … Continue reading →

Conscientious web developers have tried for a number of years to automate the web interface.  To date this is not possible with Visual Studio Professional or even the Test Suite products delivered with Team Foundation. Microsoft has missed the boat … Continue reading →

Check out this small video clip of a job environment in Vermont.  This type of job environment really interests me.  Is your job environment like this?  The good and bad of this type of environment?