Reston Code Camp - Register now.

The Reston Code Camp has been announced for June 10th
2006. This will be the 3rd Reston Code Camp - they are a great way to get
your skills and knowledge up to date in a single day (and they are free!).
You can register here.
The Call for Speakers is here.
Sahil
Malik is chairing the Data Track and is [...]

Pair Programming Presented

Over the last few months, I have presented a session on Pair Programming to two User Groups (WinProTeam Rockville and PA FoxPro) and one Code Camp (Richmond this last weekend). I especially enjoy presenting this topic for a number of reasons:

It is not .NET specific so you can take it to many audiences (which givesdifferentperspectives)
It [...]

Speaking at the Richmond Code Camp on Saturday, 4/22/2006

I will be presenting on two topics at the Richmond Code Camp on
4/22/2006. The event starts at 8:30AM and runs all day. If you have
never been to a Code Camp before, you are missing out. They are a great
place to ask questions and find out about technology from your local
community.
Mytopics are:

Build
and Deploy your [...]

Duplicate column name weirdness in ADO.NET

I came across the following issue the other day
with a very large stored procedure that had *lots* of columns.
Unfortunately I had introduced a duplicate column name by using “as” in my SQL
but things definitely work as I expected. Take a look for yourself

1 using (SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(“user id=x;password=y;server=localhost;”))
2 {
[...]