I have a couple of suggestions/requests for the various .NET teams at Microsoft. For Visual Studio and .NET in general . For Sql Server and ADO.NET . I'd like to hear what you want fixed, changed, added, or dropped from these and other products. Leave me a comment please.

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When you change the network protocols, and other settings, you are using with Sql Server 2005, you might need to stop and restart the Sql Server 2005 Service. I find this a fairly simple thing to overlook when you have the really cool point and click interface. Wally

I have been working with the Sql Server 2005 Beta(s) for a while (read almost 2 1 / 2 years). I've always enabled the CLR using the TSql commands. Well, I was going through the Sql Server Configuration tool and I found that this can be enabled through a point and click interface using the Sql Server...

I just got done completing the Technical Editing portion of my chapters for our ADO.NET V2 book with the June CTP of Sql Server 2005 and the April CTP of Visual Studio 2005. I didn't find anything that was a big deal beyond the SQL CLR changes that were announced back in December, 2004. Besides making...

If you want to get the Server Enumeration working properly with Sql Server 2005, you will need to start the Sql Server Browser service on that machine. Otherwise, you don't get information back, such as the version number and other good pieces of information. Wally

From the MSDN Download Section: NOTE: Visual Studio 2005 June CTP is not compatible with the SQL 2005 June CTP, but will work with the included SQL Server 2005 Express Edition. The June CTP of Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server requires the April CTP of SQL Server 2005. These types of issues are...

I just wanted to note that the documentation for the June CTP of Sql Server 2005 is greatly improved over the older books online for pre-April CTPs of Sql Server 2005. I am going through the technical editing process, and this documentation is a great improvement. Wally

According to the press release at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/jun05/TechEd2005Day2PR.mspx , the Sql Server 2005 June CTP is publically available at http://www.microsoft.com/sql/downloads/ . Unfortunately, as of 10:40 am US - Eastern Time (GMT - 5, I think), the link generates a 404...

Wow, the Codecamp in Atlanta on May 14th was a great success. I got back to Knoxville late on Saturday night. My talk on ADO.NET V2 went pretty well. I had a userid problem in my database when I was trying to run through my client side examples (Asynchronous operations, CommandStringBuilder, and other...