Archives
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Top 10 Things to be Thankful for in .NET
www.theserverside.net/cartoons/Top10_NET_Thankful/Top10_NET_Thankful.swf
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Productivity and the Tyranny of Email
I have been trying to be more productive during my usual working hours lately. Coincidently, I came across this article via SQLServerCentral.com. It is a clear article, focusing really on productivity - of which email/blogs/surfing is probably the biggest productivity waster for us tech-types. Another key point is that we really need a solid, focussed window of at least 3 hours in order to really get anything done.
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Microsoft Executive ISV Briefing
If you are an ISV in Israel, you definitely want to check out this upcoming special event for ISVs on January 10. After the keynote from 2 senior managers from MS Corp and EMEA, there will be two tracks - one for CEOs and one for CTOs. I'll be doing 2 presentations on Visual Studio .NET, one for each track. See you there!
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December CTP of Visual Studio 2005 Enterprise Architect available for Download
MSDN subscribers can now download the December CTP of Visual Studio 2005 Enterprise Architect.
Be sure to check out the deployment diagrams and updated installation instructions.
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Tracking down managed memory leaks
Here is a useful post on tracking down .NET memory leaks, by Rico Mariani from the .NET Performance team. His blog is a wealth of practical information on performance issues - subscribed. (I was particularly impressed by the fact that he and I have the exact same first rule about calling GC.Collect - Don't !)
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11 Hours of Juval Lowy
Yes, that is how I spent my day yesterday - listening to and learning from Juval Lowy. First was a full-day seminar on Advanced .NET Programming Techniques. And then was a combined C# and VB User Group meeting where he spoke for a few hours more. I have known Juval for several years and I have had many conversations and heard many of his presentations at conferences where we are both speakers. I don't always agree with everything he says, but I always learn something (usually alot) new from him.
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ASP.NET Params collection caveat
One of the nice little features in ASP.NET is that the HTTPRequest object has a Params property that I can access to get the values of the parameters of a request, without having to explicity know or specify whether those parameters are part of a QueryString, Form, Cookie, or Server Variable. However, like most convenienes, this comes with a price - or at least a caveat as pointed out in this post by Scott Hanselman.
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Get Binary Serialization of DataSets today!
In my article on new DataSet features in ADO.NET 2.0, I highlight the performance gain obtained when using the new binary remoting format. However, as Beth Massi points out, there is some code (written by her) up on GetDotNet that you can use to do this today with ADO.NET 1.1.
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What's on your keychain?
Mike Gunderloy has an interesting and thought provoking list of things that he carries around on his disk on key.
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How old am I ?!?
I just have to share this afternoon's experience. I will omit the company's name to protect the guilty (maybe I shouldn't ?)
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VSLive! San Francisco 2005
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Sometimes we forget that we're living on the leading edge
Last week I gave a presentation on .NET for Microsoft at a seminar for representatives from various groups within the Israel Air Force. It was one of those moments, and over the courseof the year there are alot of these moments, where I am reminded just how skewed my perspective on Microsoft techologies is. I have been using and teaching about .NET for well over 4 years now, but that is definitely not the norm within the industry at large. Despite the large percentage of .NET adoption, I need to remind myself every so often that things that I have been talking about for years, is still brand new to alot of developers out there.
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The Power of Blogging and Channel 9
Just a small, personal anecdote on the power of blogging and Channel 9.
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Juval Lowy to Speak at this month's Israel Visual C# Users Group
I normally only post the announcements of my Israel VB User Group in my blog, because posting the announcements of all of the monthly Microsoft developer and IT user groups would almost become a full time job! The Microsoft User Group community in Israel has really come a long, long way since I convinced them of my crazy idea to start a VB User group over 7 years ago...For the full list and details of the various User Groups, check here.
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Dates and Location Announced for MS PDC 2005
It looks like it is back to LA for this this year's PDC. You can get the details and sign up for details here.
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SQL Server 2005 for Developers Webcasts this Week
There is a whole slew of webcast on SQL Server 2005 for Developers this week (mainly level 200). Here is the schedule:
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December CTP - SQL Server 2005 (various flavors)
Various different versions of SQL Server 2005 are now available for download to MSDN subscribers at http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/. This is a CTP (Community Technical Preview) which means that it is essentially a snapshot of the build on a particular day and it does not undergo the same level of testing (or support) of a Beta version. It includes both 32- and 64-bit versions, as well as a new version of SQL Server Express (replaces MSDE).
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Overview of SQL Server 2005 Express on MSDN
Rajesh George from the SQL Server Express (SSE) team has posted a nice, clear article on MSDN with an overview of the main features and differences of SQL Server 2005 Express. You should walk away with a good understanding of how it differs from the standard SQL Server 2005 product as well as how it differs from MSDE (SQL 2000).
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Feedback on .NET Deep Dive Event (Israel)
If you attended the MS Israel .NET Deep Dive event last week, please take a moment to fill out this speaker feedback form. Please forward this link to any friend or colleagues that you know attended as well. I very much value attendee, even if they don't take the take (as many do) to send a personal email.
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Are You Getting Phantom Errors When Compiling Large VB.NET Solutions ?
If your VB.NET 2003 solution has more than about 100K lines of code and you get phantom (i.e. false) error messages when compiling, there is now a hotfix available for this, as decribed in this KB article.