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by Richard Morris | 30 September 2008 |

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Richard Morris met David and Nigel of the SQL Response team, in a dim sum Restaurant in Cambridge. They had just finished a new Red-Gate product called SQL Response. Away from the office, they described the fourteen month software project that had been dominating... Read more...

Software Tool Design: Remote User Testing

by Stephen Chambers | 18 August 2008 |

If you are developing a software product, you'll know that the sooner you can get feedback from the users, the better. But, what sort of feedback, which users, and how? If your users have to test your software within their own development environment and workplace,... Read more...

Software Tool Design: Design by Sketching

by Stephen Chambers | 06 August 2008 |

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Developers can get so used to relying on computers for everything that they can forget how useful it can be in the design process to elicit and refine ideas whilst working in groups, using a sketchbook, pencils and crayons. Sometimes we all need a jolt to force us... Read more...

Software Tool design: The Three Rs

by Stephen Chambers | 21 July 2008 |

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To understand the full extent of the requirements of your users when you are redesigning a software tool, you have to talk to them, and observe how they are currently using the package. For this sort of research, there is no established rule-book, but there... Read more...

Testing Times Ahead: Extending NUnit

by Ben Hall | 14 March 2008 |

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If you want to get serious with Unit Testing, then you'll need to understand how to extend the NUnit framework in different ways for your own particular test requirements and how to tailor test behaviour. Test Expert Ben Hall, of the SQL Generator team, shows how... Read more...

The Waffle Generator

by Andrew Clarke | 16 January 2008 |

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Sometimes, silly programs have a less obvious useful purpose. Andrew Clarke takes his classic 'Waffle Generator', and provides it in various forms, including a CSS Stylesheet tester, and as a Generator for SQL Data Generator. The Waffle Generator puts text into your... Read more...

Extending MSBuild

by Tilman Bregler | 06 December 2007 |

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Because MSbuild underpins the Visual Studio 'build' process, you can use MSBuild to explore and extend the build process to suit your needs. If you are finding the job of building Microsoft .NET applications tedious , the chances are that there is a way that using... Read more...

Top HAT

by William Brewer | 13 November 2007 |

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If there is one thing that developers and users always seem to disagree on, it is the relative importance of documentation. We take a look at the whole technology of producing Help and Documentation for tools and applications, and then review one particular product;... Read more...

An Interview with James Moore

by Simple Talk | 22 August 2007 |

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James Moore on why he insists that his devleopers use the appropiate third party tools in their work, the problems with Visual Studio, and what's happening in Red Gate's new .NET tools division. Read more...

Customizing the Login Page in SharePoint 2007

by Damon Armstrong | 05 June 2007 |

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Damon shows how a few simple steps lead you to being able to include the login form in a consistent look and feel to your customer-facing Sharepoint applications Read more...

Gathering RSS Feeds using Visual Studio and RSS.NET

by John Papa | 04 May 2007 |

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If you would like to learn how to build and customize your very own Windows service to retrieve posts from multiple RSS feeds, and then store those posts in a SQL Server database, let John Papa guide you through his tutorial. Read more...

Exploring LINQ, SQLMetal and SqlTac

by Steven R. McCabe | 15 March 2007 |

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If you're a .NET developer, working with or without a database on the back-end, your world is about to change. The emergence of LINQ and SQLMetal technologies will mark a fundamental change to your development approach to collections, and provide a simpler, more... Read more...

Creating Excel and Word reports for .NET applications using OfficeWriter

by Ty Anderson | 02 February 2007 |

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OfficeWriter is a reporting tool from Softartisans, which allows you to execute and generate business reports in familiar Excel and Word formats. Here, Ty Anderson, an independent consultant, provides an overview of the tool's capabilities and provides the code you... Read more...

Tracing memory leaks in .NET applications with ANTS Profiler

by Mike Bloise | 29 September 2006 |

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With only 24 hrs to go to the release of his brand new C# 2005 CRM application, Mike Bloise encountered severe memory leak issues. This case study describes how he solved them using ANTS Profiler. Read more...

Using BITS to Upload Files with .NET

by Phil Wilson | 04 September 2006 |

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Although FTP is commonly used to transfer files over the Internet, it's somewhat unfriendly to firewalls. Phil Wilson shows you how to create a BITS upload program using C#, which will transfer files over browser ports. Read more...

The cost of poor website performance

by Simon Galbraith | 13 March 2006 |

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The business impact of varying page download time has not, until now, been defined. This article provides data that allows website owners to understand the business impact of their web application performance. Read more...

What's ROI got to do with it?

by Simon Galbraith | 13 February 2003 | Not rated yet

If you want to be taken seriously when proposing IT investments, calculate the ROI for your organization. Read more...