Readify Developer Network http://www.readify.net/rdn.aspx Tonight Chris Hewitt and I are presenting ReadiPrimer sessions as part of Readify’s Developer Network series at Clifton’s (on Edward street, near Central Station) starting at 4:30pm. Location: Cliftons- 288 Edward St, Brisbane My presentation will center on Agile Development (and the Microsoft Solutions […]
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Today I feel obliged to link to the almost unknown utility, SQL Server Migration Assistant for MS Access. This is a fairly helpful tool which can simplify migrating Schema and data between two otherwise fairly incompatible products. What is interesting to watch is how the Assistant migrates queries to views and […]
Well hello. A little while ago I was surprised when a number of people stared blankly at me when I suggested that they alter their HOSTS file. I’ve been meaning to write up a short entry on what it is and where you find it. I know this will […]
Yesterday afternoon I was invited over to Microsoft (Brisbane) for a function and I ran into Michael Redmond (Microsoft MCS). We got to chatting about the status of SQL Server and he mentioned that the February CTP had been announced for SQL Server 2008. Here is a link for those […]
Welcome news from Microsoft as they have released the technical specification of select Microsoft Office file formats (pre-Office 2007). The release of this information is covered by the Microsoft Open Specification Promise which may or may not have implications for individuals who view the data. It depends who you ask. […]
Hi all. So, if you haven’t heard about the new ADO.Net Entity Framework.. Well, you soon will! Here is a link to Microsoft’s official overview of ADO.Net EF (may be a little out of synch since this was published in 2006). Here’s another blogger’s perspective, comparing LINQ to SQL […]
According to this thread on this blog someplace, if you duplicate a virtual hard drive which has a Windows operating system on it, and then try to add both to an active directory domain you’ll get this funky error message (on the second machine registered, most likely): "The name or […]
This post is to address my ongoing love affair with Windows Server 2008, which is in RC1. Those of you who have been following my travesties with Windows Vista will undoubtedly know through my numerous posts to this blog, my pain and suffering under that particular operating system. Not […]
Hi there. Well, I’ve had some fun and games uninstalling Visual Studio 2005. Since Visual Studio 2008 went RTM recently, I’ve been running both VS2005 and 2008 side-by-side. This actually seems to work fine. However, hard drive space on my tablet PC is at a premium (being that the drive […]
Hi all, on the eve of a service pack for the popular .Net Framework 2.0, here is a kb (knowledge base) article outlining the fixes which are included in the SP. Here are some of my favourites: Error message when you try to go to an ASP.NET page by using […]
So, I’d assumed that everyone knew… LINQ isn’t going to officially support (RTM) SQL Server /SQL Server 2008 until Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (or, more specifically, I’d guess a Framework revision). Everyone probably knows that SQL Server and Windows Server 2008 both will be hitting RTM in February, rumoured […]
So there was a thread recently on the aus-dotnet mailing list which piqued my interest. Bill McCarthy wrote (and I agree) that as a general rule you ought to always call public properties when your calling code is external to the target class/code. As to calls or references made within […]
So chances are that you know that Visual Studio 2008 has gone RTM (release to manufacturing). Better hop onto MSDN Subsscriber downloads or grab a free copy of the express editions. Anyone who considers themselves .Net Developers or Architects should be running Visual Studio 2008. At any rate – even […]
Hi all. As some may know, I was scheduled to speak this weekend at the second annual SQL Code Camp in Wagga Wagga. Due to family commitments I’m unable to present or attend, but I strongly recommend the journey to anyone who is serious about SQL Server in Australia. This is […]
If you come across this fine error: It is likely because somehow, over time, you’ve installed many or multiple versions of SQL Server Compact Edition. This was, at times called different names such as SQL Server Anywhere and SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition. To remedy the situation, it’s as easy […]