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Amazing TechEd Online interview about being a book author
On Tuesday I and my friend Marco Russo have been interviewed by Ken Rosen about our book writing experience. In fact a couple of weeks ago became available our last book about LINQ. The interview focuses on the book itselft, but also on the experience to being an author for Microsoft Press.
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Windows Sharepoint Services incidentally inside permissions on Lists table with tp_ACL
WSS offers a nice Object Model to navigate its content. Anyway sometime we need something more. In these situations we can think about accessing directly the WSS Content Database as James Sturms showed us in his session (SharePoint Database Schemas).
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Handling transactions working on Windows Sharepoint Services lists
One of the features I miss on WSS and SPS is the capability to change lists contents and configuration transactionally.When you work on complex scenarios often it should be usefull to change data on an "application/service/support database" and on WSS/SPS lists/contents, but the Object Model of Sharepoint doesn't give us a way to handle transactions. So you have to do it manually, with compensating transactions.
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CryptoAPI and DPAPI are not thread-safe :-( !
Today, while stress-testing a Web Application of a customer of mine, I discovered an issue in a piece of code working with DPAPI: CryptoAPI are not thread-safe!
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SQL Server 2005 Web Services (DAT329)
The session covered clearly the new features of SQL Server 2005 in the fields of Web Services support.
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Third day at TechEd
To tell the true, today was not so exciting! The only two good session that I've attended were the one of ClemensV "Best Practices for State Management at Multiple Layers (CTS404)" and the one of Mike Fitzmaurice about "Programmatic Access To SharePoint Lists And Document Libraries (BPR377)".
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Express Editons of VS2005 and SQL2005 available for download
Microsoft has just announced: SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, Visual Web Developer Express Edition, Visual C++ Express Edition, Visual C# Express Edition, Visual J# Express Edition, Visual Basic Express Edition!