Category: Development

This is a quick note about iPhone app images that are needed to get an app ready to go into Apple’s App Store. App Icons 57 * 57 (icon.png) 72 * 72 (icon-72.png) 114 * 114 (icon@2x.png) 144 * 144 (icon-72@2x.png) Launch Images 320 * 480 (default.png) 640 * 960 …

As a technology professional, I hate to admit this, but one of the reasons I quit posting here at MooreDynasty is that my WordPress install suddenly stopped allowing me to upload images using Microsoft Live Writer, my favorite blogging tool. (The real reason is that Facebook became the friend/family gathering …

I use BitBucket for some low-key ASP.NET and Objective C source control needs. This is a cheatsheet of some of the things I do on an irregular basis. New ASP.NET Project Startup Usually about this time I’ll wonder if source control really is worth the hassle. Eventually I’ll decide (again) …

In Visual Studio 2008 – still our SSRS report editing tool of choice – the Report Data panel often “goes missing” and cannot be restored through the Visual Studio menu.  The MKC – Magic Key Combination – to restore it is Control+Alt+D.

Imagine you are given a table with a column of XML in it and a few million rows of data.  Further imagine that you want to write an efficient query using an attribute of that XML in the WHERE clause of your query. A short test scenario describes how I …

Unit testing of database-related code has long been problematic for the ESI team.  Using Entity Framework Code First, EF Migrations, and SQL Server Compact Edition we may be able to do a much better job in upcoming projects. Essentially the demonstrated in this article scheme is this: When a set …

Debugging SQL Server stored procedures is normally a straightforward operation.  Even so, it’s possible to be taken down the wrong path by the SQL Profiler and SQL Server Management Studio. Assume a web page is receiving an exception calling a stored procedure that accepts a datetime field as a parameter.  …

Here are some good, quick C# interview questions/answers gleaned from various sources: What’s the implicit name of the parameter that gets passed into a property’s set method? Value, and it’s datatype depends on whatever variable we’re changing. How do  you handle multiple inheritance in C#? MI is not supported.  You …

Often we will create a domain account to run web applications under in the event the web site needs access to external resources.  If this is overkill for an application, the fact IIS 7 runs each app pool under a unique ID can be helpful. In a simple example, suppose …