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.

Appropiate that this is my first post in 2006. I spent several hours this evening working getting my web search spider back up and going. I have it running on .NET 2.0 with Sql Server 2005. I need to go back and make a stored procedure change or two and it will be ready for me to scale it back up. I...

http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=910378 This sounds really sweet. There have been instances where I could have used this feature over the years. Copied from the KB article: Scalable shared databases The scalable shared database feature allows you to attach a read-only reporting database...

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=82AFBD59-57A4-455E-A2D6-1D4C98D40F6E&displaylang=en From the download page: Overview Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express (SSMSE) provides a graphical management tool for SQL Server 2005 Express Edition (SQL Server Express) instances...

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I was trying to get a backup of my system done so that I could reformat and install everything as clean as possible. The problem is that the windows backup wouldn't run. By googling, I was able to find the knowledge base article that solved the problem for me. Here it is: http://support.microsoft.com...

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