Archives
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SqlRS2000: Answers to common questions
This is just a collection of links to newsgroup posts that answer commonly asked questions:
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Google Desktop Search 2 kicks butt!
Google just released a new version of their Google Desktop Search software. It has tons of configuration options and a new "sidebar" to help you keep information ready at your fingertips. As a developer, I also like the extensibility which now includes many 3rd-party file parsers and sidebar add-ins. If you are interested in writing your own plugins, there are even a couple .NET Wrappers available.
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Fiddler 1.0 - Web performance analysis & optimization
I first discovered Fiddler over a year ago after trying several other HTTP trace/proxy tools like YATT for tuning ASP.NET 1.0 applications. Although many of the other tools worked well, they often had extra dependencies or more complex UI's. None of them quite matched the ease-of-use of Fiddler - especially with its IE integration. Much has already been said about this tool on various blogs, so I won't repeat the typical praise and standard explanations.
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VisualStudio 2005 Tutorials
Bob has recently has updated his site, LearnVisualStudio.NET, with over 50 new video tutorials on VisualStudio.NET 2005. Here is a quick sampling of some of the topics:
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VS2005: Uh, wow! Late change fixes System.Nullable type confusion....
David sent me this gem recently and it frankly surprised me a bit to see (what I consider to be) such a high-impact change to C# and the CLR so late in the game.
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FW: Visual Studio 2005 previous beta removal tool
Just discovered this tool by Aaron Stebner while continuing to fight install problems with Visual Studio.NET 2005 Beta2:
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VS2005: Beta2 install fails during Sql Server 2005 Express install
Beware if you are installing Visual Studio 2005 Beta2 on a PC with an existing SQL Server 2000 installation, because it will cause the setup to throw an error, eventhough it continues to successfully finish the setup.
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Excellent article on COM+ Callable Wrappers (CCW) in .NET
A couple years ago I spent time developing BizTalk 2002 AIC components with C#/.NET Framework v1.1 and learned tons about COM+ interop. I always planned to go blog about the basics and various tips and tricks for composing your COM interfaces, but after stumbling across this article, I'll happily point people to it on Peter van Ooijen's blog instead.
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Video eLearning via LearnVisualStudio.NET
Over the past couple years, my friend Bob Tabor has put together an impressive collection of .NET tutorial Videos to help noobie .NET coders and experts alike learn how to develop with VisualStudio.NET via his awesome site LearnVisualStudio.NET.
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PDC05: My Pre-con session selections
I'm still researching my main PDC session picks, but here are my tenative pre-con selections...
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CodeSmith: Custom Exception Template v1.1
I recently picked up a license for CodeSmith Professional and upgraded from version 2.6 to the brand new version 3.1. As a long-time user of CodeSmith, I love the new enhancements to both the core engine and the Studio! The built-in Statement Completion (e.g. intellisense-style lookup) feature is worth it alone! Great work Eric!
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I'm going to PDC05!
I got a late approval today from management to go to PDC! Woohoo!
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FW: SQL Server Reporting Services - Lessons Learned In Development and Deployment
Someone recently pointed me to this excellent article on EggheadCafe. Much of what it contains is dead-on and amounts to what has taken me a good year and a half to learn through a combination of trial & error, the anorexic Reporting Services books online, and hundreds of posts to the Microsoft public Reporting Services newsgroup.
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Sql Reporting SP2: Unable to install RSClientPrint ActiveX control
Here is a response I wrote for a problem posted on the Microsoft Reporting Services newsgroup: