My Software Cookbook

I have found several ways of injecting a version number into Wix via TeamBuild, but most of them require way too much work. After a few days of experimenting I ended up with this solution. [Read More]

When trying to figure out how to use some of my MFC controls in a WinForms application, I came across this article by Rama Krishna Vavilala. As his article was targetting the .NET 1.1 framework, I decided to rework it for .NET 2.0. The main difference is the switch from... [Read More]

Synchronizing a table based on a flat files is one of the more common tasks when dealing with databases. It should be a straight forward task to delete removed records, update changed records and insert new records but I often encounter horrible ways of achieving this goal. In this post,... [Read More]

When I needed to move about 28500 stored procedures from a SQL Server 2000 to a SQL Server 2005, I turned to the SQL Server Management Studio. It didn't offer any option to move the stored procedures but it did allow to script them to a text file. I launched... [Read More]

This article describes how to open the DTS Designer for SQL Server 2005 programmatically. It eliminates the need to open the SQL Server Management Studio if you just need to edit a DTS that was saved as a structured storage file. I’m building a command line utility in C# that... [Read More]