http://blog.tieredsolutions.com Darrell Russell. A Software Contractor with over 10 years development experience. He is an experienced Microsoft .NET software developer specialising in C#, VB.NET, SQL Server Databases, ASP/ASP.NET web sites, XML, Web Services, WinForms, WCF and WFF development and consultancy work on a freelance basis. Based in the South West of the UK (Tetbury, Gloucestershire) and available to do work within South Wales, the M4 corridor, Gloucestershire, Dorset, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire and Somerset including Bath, Bristol, Swindon, Cheltenham, Gloucester and Salisbury. At the moment he is particulary interested in Agile Software development methodologies including Test Driven Development (TDD). Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:23:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Looking at the S#arp Architecture for a new project I'm working on. The example it supplies requires the Northwind database. Hey no problem I think .. it comes with SQL Server so shouldnt be an issue. First problem .. Microsoft no longer install this example database with their later SQL ... http://blog.tieredsolutions.com/?p=532 Struct Examples and Tricks in C# - actually worthwhile reading. I'd known that structs can be used to group some related items together (to aid understanding, reduce bugs etc) and I knew that they can be an aid for performance (less of an overhead compared to objects). But I didn't really ... http://blog.tieredsolutions.com/?p=529 If you have an object type mapped to table1 and you need a piece of info from a related object type (thats mapped to a table2) then you can use a view (rather than a table) to make this attribute available in object type1. However this can cause issues with ... http://blog.tieredsolutions.com/?p=527 On Sunday I added the full Microsoft web development stack (ASP.NET v3.5, Silverlight, MS SQL 2005) to the hosting options I can now offer clients. First client to make use of this new capability was Tiered Solutions Hosting itself - I knocked up the web site and published it in ... http://blog.tieredsolutions.com/?p=526 Eric Wise's Post on how to enable Windows Authentication within Firefox Update your about:config settings http://blog.tieredsolutions.com/?p=525 Looks like an excellent overview to indexes Always difficult to find good info on the technology that goes into databases (ie stuff thats detailed enough but not so dry that you fall asleep trying to wade through it). So this appears to be an good article for developers wanting more info ... http://blog.tieredsolutions.com/?p=524 Mosso - Rackspace cloud hosting. Very sexy. GoGrid - More cloud hosting. Brinkster Free 30 mb web space, 500 MB WEB TRAFFIC (limited to 16.7 mb web traffic per day), Brinkster control panel, ASP 3.0 , ASP.NET xml 4.0 wap enabled flash enabled ssi - server side includes MDAC 2.8 MS ACCESS .NET MOBILE ... http://blog.tieredsolutions.com/?p=522 In the second week of July I'll be ending my current role with Intergraph (.NET 3.5, C#, WinForms, Oracle, TDD, UML, Enterprise Architect) and looking for new work, be it role or project based. As my new web hosting service enters its 6th successful month I'm also interested in talking with ... http://blog.tieredsolutions.com/?p=521 Since the last list of leads post I've lead the following routes: Bitter Battle Tears HVS 5a *** (Shorn Cliff) Organ Grinder HVS 5a ** (Shorn Cliff) Another Brick in the Wall VS 4c (Shorn Cliff) The Iron Curtain VS 4c * (Shorn Cliff) Cascade HS 4b (Symonds Yat) Exchange VS 4b ** (Symonds Yat) Otak ... http://blog.tieredsolutions.com/?p=520 Bit of a blip with the weather at the start of May but back to climbing outdoors again. Not sure where my head is at the moment when it comes to climbing (not a good sign in itself) but it feels like I'm on the verge of making some pretty fundemental ... http://blog.tieredsolutions.com/?p=517