Waiting for your company to provide training courses or advancement opportunities? It might be a long wait. Unfortunately many companies overlook professional development or consistently sacrifice it when the first round of annual budget cuts occur. Even when we do get training opportunities, many of us continue to select classes at random, based on what seems interesting at the moment.

We live in a field that is expanding daily, where the environment we work in is drastically different from what it was 5 years ago and from what it will be 5 years from now. Whether we plan on being ...

Model-View-Presenter is an architecture pattern that defines a structure for behavior and logic at the UI level. M-V-P separates the logic of the presentation, such as interacting with back-end services and the business layer, from the mechanics of displaying buttons and interface components.

I often build small projects to help understand and grow my skills as a developer, architect, and all-around technologist (as may be apparent from the wide range o...

After our installation of SQL Server 2008 R2 a few weeks ago, we mentioned that we still had some additional setup tasks before we could consider the server to be done. This article covers setting up DatabaseMail, the internal mail client that will allow us to use built-in alerts (among other things).

In continuing Chrissie's recent example of helping to point out minor (yet critical) gotchas, I now present the guarantor of a few Null Reference exceptions, If() and IIf().

Both are designed as a way to provide VB.Net with an inline If, similar to the ternary operator found in C# and many other languages