No, I'm not talking about Jeffrey Richter. “Heavenly Body” is my R/C B-25 , which is finally finished and is almost ready for its test flight. The paint scheme comes from the real Heavenly Body , a B-25 manufactured near the end of WWII that Read More...

Well, I found out tonight that Notepad won't open a 929MB text file. SQL Server 2005 Management Studio won't, either, which leaves me in a pickle. Here's the story. A while back, I installed a beta build of SQL Server 2005 on my desktop PC. It converted Read More...

ASP.NET's GridView control suffers from an irritating design flaw. When a GridView contains a ButtonField and one of the buttons in the column is clicked, there's no obvious way to determine WHICH button was clicked--that is, to get a reference to the Read More...

I spent several weeks this summer writing an ASP.NET 2.0 provider toolkit under contract for Microsoft. The centerpiece of the toolkit is a 120-page whitepaper documenting the provider model and offering lots of samples. It's now online (in 10 parts) Read More...