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ExtensionMethod.Net has over 300 C#  extension methods (over 100 are on the string class).  For an overview on extension methods visit this MSDN page or see my old post.

Firebird is a fantastic open source database–not sure why it is not more popular.  And it has a cool logo:

To be safe one should add (and change) a query parameter after their Silverlight application to prevent the file from being cached. The HTML would look something like: <param name="source" value="ClientBin/MySilverlightApplication.xap?revision=2012011801"/> And the revision needs to be changed after every new build that is published.

For a great accumulation of helpful WP7 tips, check out http://wp7dev.wikispaces.com/.

Wikipedia credits Skype as being written in Delphi.  For a good list of other applications written in Delphi, visit delphi.wikia.com.  Plus Embarcadero has  a dizzying showcase here.  The list of software built with Delphi includes Ad-Aware (which I recommend/install on all relatives machines), Beyond Compare (used at work), Adobe Captivate, FinalBuilder, Help and Manual, Macromedia […]

It looks like Silverlight and WinRT have a lot of API in common.  The WinRT Genome Project from Programmer Payback has a nice Venn diagram of the overlaps; and a link to a complete Silverlight 5 vs. WinRT comparison by namespace.

While I usually like to detach, copy/rename, then reattach development databases, for online databases I often need to refer to these SQL commands: BACKUP DATABASE MY_DATABASE TO DISK=‘C:\SQLBACKUPS\MY_DATABASE_BACKUP20111117a.BACKUP’ RESTORE FILELISTONLY FROM DISK=‘C:\SQLBACKUPS\MY_DATABASE_BACKUP20111117a.BACKUP’ RESTORE DATABASE MY_DATABASE_NEW FROM DISK=‘C:\SQLBACKUPS\MY_DATABASE_BACKUP20111117a.BACKUP’ WITH   MOVE ‘MY_DATABASE_Data’ TO ‘C:\PRODUCTION_DATA\MY_DATABASE.MDF’,   MOVE ‘MY_DATABASE_Log’ TO ‘C:\PRODUCTION_DATA\MY_DATABASE.LDF’

The Delphi IDE Fix Pack from Andy Hausladen in truly incredible.  At work we have a very large Delphi project (core application has about 3.9 million lines of code) and using the Delphi IDE was painfully slow—doing a ‘Find Declaration’ would lock the IDE for minutes.  After installing the IDE Fix Pack the IDE is […]

At work we’re upgrading to the latest release of Microsoft Exchange and I needed to change the server address within Outlook. To start with, one cannot change the Microsoft Exchange server from Outlook—the field is read-only.  The solution is to run the Mail control panel applet.  However, Mail tool is only available under the View […]

Just go to the start menu and type msconfig and this very handy form appears: which can be used to determine how windows boots, which OS to start with (if you have a multi-boot system), all services that are installed, a quick launcher for a number of useful tools and most important a fast way […]