Great mysteries of life: WPF edition
The Windows Presentation Foundation of Microsoft’s .NET Framework 3.0 gives you a lot of bang for the buck—for instance, it includes a free spell checker. Unfortunately, you sometimes get what you pay for. There is no ability to add a custom dictionary in the current version of the spellchecker. There also appears to be no [...]
Scripting data from SQL Server tables as DML
(Warning: technical post ahead.) Ever since leaving the PowerBuilder/Sybase/ERWin world behind, something I’ve missed is the ability to easily generate portable SQL scripts for populating a table with test data. There are plenty of solutions in SQL Server for migrating data—DTS/Integration Services, BCP, and others. But DTS and Integration Services have to be maintained in [...]
