Slightly Rough Exchanges: Troubleshooting Transactional Issues with TransactionScope
In my previous post, I discussed the use of TransactionScope within C# and how it might simplify how transactions are managed within your applications. It covered »
Smooth Transactions with TransactionScope
In the real world, we deal with transactions all the time, even though we rarely think of them as such. Things like driving to work or »
Visual Studio, Why Can't You Just Let Me Have This One (Solution Folder)?
If you've ever worked in a large code-base of around a hundred or so projects, then you know that organizing your code can almost be as »
Making Your .NET Application Less Quirky
I'd like to believe that as developers, we are always looking for those silver-bullet type solutions. The ones where we just add a single line of »
I Don't Know Crap About Security (Or At Least I Didn't)
Recently, I was involved in a project that required doing some serious locking down of an application prior to an extensive audit (with potentially millions of »
Priorities of a Passionate Developer
Anyone that has been around me knows that I'm quite passionate about my craft, and if you are reading this, you probably have a bit of »
Software Soup
As a father of two, one of which being very recent, it's been tough to find time to blog as much as I usually do. It's »
I Don't Know
Software development is a huge field, I mean huge. You've got front-end folks, back-end folks, database specialists, architects, the engineers, the folks with the people skills »
Hello XML, My Old Friend; I've Come To Encode You Again.
Depending on how long you've been a developer, XML might be a term that sounds totally foreign. For others, it might bring back long repressed memories »
Can I Have My CPU Back Visual Studio?
Visual Studio 2017 has certainly been a major improvement over previous iteration of the flagship IDE; however, it isn't without its flaws. If you are a »