My good old home server died. This 7 years old machine that I stacked with hard drives was happily running Windows Home Server and few more things on the top for little more than a year. But just last week some capacitors on main board blew and it was time to find a substitute. I quickly decided I n...

Development Merlin Wizard Framework - A framework for easily making wizards in .NET. LINQ to SQL templates for T4 - Templates replicating the functionality of the SQLMetal and the LINQ to SQL classes designer code-generators for both C# and VB.Net requiring just Visual Studio 2008. Usernames over Tr...

Development Change Color of Status Bar of SSMS Query Editor Double-clicking a VS2005 Solution in Vista Find Currently Running Query Let SQL Server Tell You Which Indexes to Rebuild XAML Guidelines released! An Illustrated Guide to Git on Windows CSharp Code Header Designer Web Deployment Tool - The ...

Development Extending the Visual-Studio Context-Menu - Holy crap, this is cool. SQL Server Programming Hacks - SQL Server tricks and scripts. using svnsync - Nice story about syncing SVN repositories. Just used it. BizTalk 2006 Message Archiving Pipeline Component Biztalk assembly version updater Sc...

Development babelobfuscator - Open source .NET obfuscator. Shadow Copying of Applications - This will come in handy one day, I just feel it. Using Windows SDK Vista Bridge Sample Library - Hot to use Vista's API from .NET. Did you know? You can keep recently-used files from falling off the File Tab ...

Lately my Dell Latitude D820 has been running very hot and loud. I tried to help it cool with various desk and lap positions, but things went from bad to worse. Google search confirmed my suspicion that dust has killed it’s cooling capabilities. I could take it to repairs, but that’s no fun. And...

Development Why use the Entity Framework? - Everybody wants to know... Microsoft Source Analysis for C# - Not quite ReSharper's analysis, but it's free and from MS. Logging LINQ To SQL Output to Console or Debugger Output Window - Nice little class to log LINQ2SQL SQL statements to debug window. Env...

Development ResEx - Translation friendly resx editor for strings. Great for internationalization of small projects. Resource Refactoring Tool - Extract hard coded strings to resx file with style. SQL Assistant - SQL autocomplete and more for SQL Server, Oracle, MS Access... Pex - Automated Explorato...

Everyone that runs a web server or even a site needs to run a DNS check from time to time. For a long time I have been a happy user of a site DNSstuff.com. But couple of months ago they started charging for their main check called DNSReport. For few queries a month I'm not willing to subscribe for $...

I'll soon have far less free time that I have now, so I'm actively working on simplifying my life. I don't want to give up things, I try to slipstream as much as possible. So far I think I'm doing quite well. One big time waster was putting together Sunday's regular weekly links. I bookmark stuff I ...