Darren Neimke has an excellent article describing a couple of really interesting techniques for those of us working with Microsoft CRM's FetchXML query language.
He discusses using the IN operator as well as how to reverse-engineer a standard CRM QueryExpression to obtain the FetchXML code.
For those of you who are not developers and want to know [...]

Scott Guthrie posted an article today discussing the use of the UpdateProgress control that is used to display a progress indicator while you are performing some action via AJAX.  Here is an example of an indicator:

Included in the article were links to several sites were that provide alternatives to the standard Atlas progress icon ( [...]

 
What a good waste of half of a day of my life.  Actually, it wasn't even that good - but it was wasted.
I am working on a utility that includes a function to move data between databases so I need to copy data from one DataSet to another then merge that data into an existing set [...]

I ran into an interesting issue as I was adding the download component for my net site.
Using the sample code from the following article, I was attempting to initiate a file download.
CodeGuru: ASP.NET Tip: Control Access to a File Download
The problem I encountered was my download test harness was inside of an Atlas UpdatePanel and the [...]

I was working on my site transition and developing the download code when I ran into a very interesting issue while using the Development Web Server that is built into Visual Studio 2005.
Consider the following code:
string rootDir = Server.MapPath(@"~\downloads");
string rootDir2 = Server.MapPath(@"..\downloads");
 
If you are running on the development web server, the second command will fail with [...]

As I mentioned in an article from last weekend, I'm in the process of moving my company's web site from being FrontPage-based to a full-blown ASP.NET framework.  Today, I thought I'd give you an update on my progress and discuss some of the more interesting aspects of the migration.
User Interface:
Overall, I'm still using the same exact [...]

About a month ago, I had to create a new company and along with it, a new web site.  Since I've used FrontPage for simple web sites for quite a period of time, that is usually my first choice.
My idea was to get the site up and running so that I have a presence, then [...]

The Microsoft ASP.NET team has released a new series of videos that show you how to implement various parts of the Atlas framework.
For those of you who are ASP.NET developers and haven't heard of Atlas, it is Microsoft's framework for integrating AJAX into ASP.NET.
Check it out, if you have not already.

[ So have you ever wondered how many times Microsoft has to create new acronyms?  I bet someone get's paid for every new one they create. :) ]
Anyway, back to the topic at hand:
Managing SQL Server Objects
As I have written about in several articles here on my blog, I have been using SQLDMO to retrieve [...]

If you didn't know, placing your cursor on the line above a function and typing: /// will cause Visual Studio to insert a XML comment block, much like this:

This information is collected and written to an XML documentation file when you build your project ( assuming you've specified the XML file in the Project Properties [...]