Professional ASP.NET - Chris Love's Official Blog

I hate several things about programming in the .NET stack, well not really that they affect me now. But it is really some of the ways we teach new .NET programmers to program in the .NET stack. Primarily it relates to the way we teach newbies how to manager data access with the View and DataSource controls. Beyond that it is that far too often we ...

There are so many built-in functions and keywords in SQL Server to help our applications perform and the coding is so easy that many get lost in the breadth of everyday needs. A few months ago I came across a function that I did not recall seeing before, Coalesce. Often we need to handle situations where we may have null values and the ...