Biases in naming database objects

Introduction Over my whole software engineering career, I have watched and learned the right way and the wrong way to style and format code. Especially when it comes to naming objects. There has been ...

Surface Pro 2 Marvell AVASTAR Wifi Driver Randomly Stopped Working

The Horrifying Problem I grabbed my Surface Pro 2, turned it on and noticed that the wireless wasn’t working. At first, I figured I would give it a minute. A minute passed and then I begun to ge...

Getting Started With Entity Framework 4.3.1

Introduction Entity Framework (EF) has evolved quite a bit and as it has evolved it has become more and more confusing to keep up with its changes which have been introduced a series of addons in the ...

WCF: Why isn’t my object showing up on the client side?

I had a minor head-palm moment a few minutes ago. Problem I declared an object in my WCF service with the correct DataContract and DataMember attributes, but my service reference still didn’t ac...

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 Win Forms. I kept getting the dreaded “Object reference not set...

Windows Form Designer File Hell: Object reference not set to an instance of an object

I spent 2 hours trying to figure out why a form I was working on was telling me that there was something wrong with a control in the designer and that is why the form wouldn’t render. I was gett...

Windows Forms Project Crashes Immediately on Startup

This was a more puzzling error that I have had to deal with in a long time. Every time I started up my windows forms application I was getting an immediate “Object reference not set to an instan...