Archives
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VS 2005 TableAdapter Overview/Tutorial
There is a newly published article on the VS 2005 TableAdapter up on MSDN - TableAdapters in Visual Studio 2005. This is a great companion/drill down article to my MSDN article New DataSet Features in Visual Studio 2005 - and if you listened to my latest .NET Rocks interview, you'd know that the TableAdapter is my favorite new data access object [ed. note - what a geek!]
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PDC Presentations available for Download
If you couldn't make it to the PDC (or even if you did) you can download the session slides from here.
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SCOPE_IDENTITY() versus @@Identity
Bill Vaughn points out that we should normally NOT be using @@Identity to fetch the last-set identity value with SQL Server. This is definitely an important, and often misunderstood (and misused) point.
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SQL Server Express Announcements
I have always been a very big fan and proponent of MSDE and now SQL Server 2005 Express - it is a great way to start building production quality applications, without having to shell out alot of money for a full version of SQL Server (until you really need it). It also means that you can avoid of the pain of starting your app with Access, because it is free, and then having to rewrite large parts of it when it is successfull and you need to upgrade to SQL Server.
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CTPs, Betas, and RCs - Oh My !
With Microsoft's new approach of "openness", publicly releasing frequent technology previews, betas, and interim builds (CTPs - Community Technology Previews), it takes alot of time (and dis space!) to keep abreast of it all. In fact, everyone should really evaluate if and when it makes sense to stay on the "bleeding edge".
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VB PDC'05 Resource CD
Brad McCabe has made available all of the contents of this great VB Resource CD. It is an interesting combination of content on VB Past, Present, and Future - it includes basic VB.NET content, VB 2005 content, content on migrating from VB6 to VB.NET, and also some of the presentations on the future of VB from the PDC.
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The Future of Visual Basic
No sooner than we have a release candidate build of Visual Basic 2005, we start getting lots of details on the next version of Visual Basic ( ver. 9 / "Orcas"). The epicenter of this new information is here, from where you can click to additional articles and blog entries from the VB Dev Team, including these from Amanda , Paul, and Yag
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Latest .NET Rocks Interview now available for download
Last week I had another fun appearance on the .NET Rocks show. I really enjoy recording the show with Carl and Richard - even though it is from 1:00 - 2:30 AM for me !
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ASP.NET 2.0 Beta2 to RTM changes
http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/beta2/beta2rtmchanges/default.aspx
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Bill Gates - On Channel 9 and Live from the PDC
You can watch the BillG PDC keynote today (8:30 AM PST) over here.
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Release Candidate for Visual Studio 2005 available for MSDN Subscribers !
Get it hot off the presses, from MSDN subscriber downloads. This version is compatible with the new September CTP of SQL Server 2005.
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I'm Back !!
Good news for those of you missed me over the past 3 months (less significant for those of you who didn't notice that I was gone... :-) ). It is pretty much 3 months to the day since my last blog posting. Fortunately, all has been well - really well in fact. I have just been SO overwhelmed with work and meeting deadlines (I saw the hour of 3:00 AM more often in a 2-week period than I have in a very, very long time...).