I was wondering how you can share Android packages that you’re developing with other interested parties. Well, it turns out it’s fairly easy. Assuming you’re working on the emulator, your first task is to extract the package off the emulator. [Read More]

In code, you can check to see if your component is in design mode with the following code: [Read More]

My machine was dying a miserable death today, as it has done often lately, and it was all down to a bug between Bluetooth software and Skype. What I noticed is literally hundreds of the same process “BluetoothHeadsetProxy.exe”, with a new one spawning every few seconds. [Read More]

Default constraints can be added in Management Studio by setting a default value for a field in the designer, or by specifying it in your table create script. This SUCKS though, because it generates a random name for the constraint, which can lead to inconsistencies across databases - if you... [Read More]

I’m perpetually restoring databases, and doing it via the GUI using SQL Server Management Studio is tedious. Instead, I like to use a script to restore my database. This involves the creation of a .bat file and an accompanying .sql file, as follows: [Read More]