Author Archives: Tony Sneed

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About Tony Sneed

Sr. Software Solutions Architect, Hilti Global Application Software

My Slovak Sabbatical

Well we’ve been back in the States for a month now, and I’m finally sitting down to write a blog post reflecting on our experience spending the last year and a half living in Slovakia. It was a bold move, … Continue reading

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Arresting Spam

About a year ago I posted a blog entry on the problem of spam and what measures we have available as individuals to take back our inbox from spammers. At the time I started using a service called SpamCop, and … Continue reading

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Creating ASP.Net Apps Under Projects

I like to keep all my stuff in one place. If I create a web app using Visual Studio, I want to keep it in my Projects directory, along with all my other code. If all you’re using is the … Continue reading

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Tweaking Skype on Your Dev Machine

If you’re like me, communicating with others via Skype is as essential to daily living as breathing. But when it comes to running Skype on your dev machine, you need to make a few adjustments. By default, Skype will grab … Continue reading

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Customer Service? It Depends on Your Point of View

As someone who regularly travels to different countries, I’ve taken notice of how various cultures view the concept of customer service. The age old phrase, “The customer is always right,” is something we’ve come to take for granted in America. … Continue reading

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Understand LINQ in 15 Minutes

I recently penned an introductory article on LINQ (Language-Integrated Query) for the September issue of the DevelopMents newsletter, published by DevelopMentor to highlight various technologies taught in our courses: http://www.develop.com/us/email/developments/developments091107.html In addition, I authored the LINQ module (both slides and … Continue reading

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System.Transactions and the DTC

I recently had to use System.Transactions to perform multiple database updates in a single atomic operation. At first I was going to use the native SQL Server transaction API, but I like the auto enlistment feature of System.Transactions – hey, … Continue reading

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Change Tracking Across Tiers

If you’ve at all paid attention to much of the buzz surrounding Visual Studio code-named Orcas (available now in Beta 1), which is set to hit the streets by the end of 2007, you know that Linq stands for “Language … Continue reading

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Taking on WPF

The time has come for me to take on the Mount Everest of .Net 3.0: Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). A while back I posted a blog entry on my approach to learning Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), so I thought I … Continue reading

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A Day with Boy Wonder

Anybody remember Boy Wonder, the pint-size version of Super Man? Well, today I had the pleasure of spending an entire day with the caped crusader, none other than my son, Kerrigan. Having spend most of the last month away from … Continue reading

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