Hi Everyone, Over the past week I’ve been putting together a new site to practice honing those ASP/.Net 3.5 Skills. It’s a revamp of the Aussie Wine Guy web site, and I’ve chosen Viux [http://www.viux.com/] as the host provider for the new site. The pricing is pretty good, and I’ve […]
Here’s some helpful information for those of you out there who are trying to make the call between using SQL Server Compact Edition or SQL Server Express Edition. Compare SQL Server 3.5 Compact and SQL Server Express Edition Features [http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/4/7/A47B7B0E-976D-4F49-B15D-F02ADE638EBE/Compact_Express_Comparison.doc] My short summary asks you to determine if any of these […]
Hi, so this is the next logical sequence in my series on the ADO Entity Framework. If you read the previous article/entry you would be familiar with the replacement of ugly foreign key data with nice friendly text (or whatever). This time, we’re going to look at how you can […]
I’ve previously voiced my opposition to the stupendously idiotic (which you can really only expect from a Labor Government) idea of a national firewall/content filtering system which would make our national Internet backbone even slower than it already (unacceptably) is. The Electronic Freedom Project and Digital Liberty Coalition have organised […]
G’Day Everyone, Despite the rather sudden nature of my availability – which was evidently due to my salary and a decline in engagement opportunities (doubtlessly caused by the current economic trends), I’m now starting to put together a workable curriculum vitae and preparing for the inevitable trek towards gainful employment. […]
Here are some lessons learned from using the Entity Framework and the EntityDataSource provider in ASP.net development. Edit: Hi Everyone, I’ve been getting some traffic on this topic and I realise I’ve only written half the details (there is more to come). Please bare with me and I’ll aim to […]
Posted recently on Slashdot, this blog entry located here [http://www.slugsite.com/archives/957] has some really interesting pictures of WWII encryption techniques. These appear to be legitimate (or at the minimum, possibly used for training documentation), and show how codes were encoded/decoded during the conflict. What is more interesting are the range of […]
Since I’m rather unlikely to reach for the book on Windows for Workgroups or Red Hat 6.1 they went off to be recycled. My general rule of thumb is that if it’s >10 years old, I probably don’t need it anymore. One exception to the rule (for example) is a […]
Sometimes you have to wonder how people miss things.. Something simple like: string movieTitle = "Ghostbusters";var movies = from mov in mdb.Movie where mov.Title.Contains(movieTitle) select mov; Fails with a nasty error: "The ntext and image data types cannot be used in WHERE, HAVING, GROUP BY, ON, or IN clauses, except […]
Don’t you just hate it when your heart sinks and you read something like this: SQL Server Express and Hosting “Several questions have come up lately regarding whether SQL Server Express is an appropriate product to be used in a hosting environment. Here are the answers: User Instances (also known […]
Hi Everyone, The VSTS Database Edition GDR (which introduced support for SQL Server 2008) has just been released (RTM). Worthy of note: (from the release notes): Projects Partial projects Allowing code sharing between projects by including files from a different project, where the code is included as-is from the originating […]
In the last entry, we looked at basic querying with a web browser and viewing service metrics. This entry will examine administrative commands and bulk uploading options using the SDS administration utility (st.exe) which is part of the SDS SDK. Migrating Data To SQL Data Services There’s really no fun […]
On the weekend we were at the mercy of some really terrible rugby as Australia played France to decide who could play the worst. Stay tuned for a complete review of a game which was only slightly better than South Africa vs Australia, 2006…
Yesterday was suddenly (without warning) my last day working for Readify Pty Ltd. I’ve worn the Readify badge of honour with pride for over two and a half years spread over two stints (from February this year until end of November) and just under two years, 2005-2007. To those whom […]
In the previous entry we reviewed how to create entities, but what do we do now? Before I go into detail on how to interact with SDS directly, let’s take some time to go over the fundamentals of querying with SDS. This entry will focus on some of the techniques […]