What is CollabNet? CollabNet is a site that has a lot of nice almost free tools for you to use in a variety of places. […]
Entity Framework: Basic CRUD Operations
I like Entity Framework (EF), I think it is a little too rigid sometimes and it would be very nice if there was a very […]
New cannot be used on a type parameter that does not have a new constraint
This is not such an obscure problem as it is just not straight forward to solve. Simply put you cannot instantiate a new instance of […]
Custom Controls in ToolStrip or StatusStrip
This is not something I have had to deal with too often which is why it wasn’t apparent to me the first time around. FACT: […]
Telerik RadGridView Column Format Calamity
Wow… just wow. I lost about an hour trying to figure out a: TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of invocation. This is […]
WinForms: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
I wrote about this already, but I just wanted to write a post about a very very weird encounter with this error while working with […]
Simple Class Creator
05/25/2014 UPDATE: I moved the code to a different project. I have made a number of changes since 2012. I posted an article on code […]
SQL Server: String or binary data would be truncated.
Msg 8152, Level x, State x, Line x String or binary data would be truncated. What does this mean? This is the equivalent of SQL […]
DataGridView Loses Formatting and Columns After Setting DataSource a Second Time
Problem This was particularly annoying. If you have a DataGridView you are working with, you have setup the DataGridView through the designer and you have […]
WSE: Server unavailable, please try later
This is an amazing gotcha that had me almost throw my computer off the sixth floor of my building. First to narrow down the steps […]