Guy Barrette

Got an email via our local user group from Insofta, an ISV that sell Cover Commander, a utility to create nice software boxes and eBook covers images.  I haven’t tried it but it’s dirt cheap and the results look great.  You might want to look at it if you’re publishing software or eBooks.

In the project I currently work on, none of the developers previously worked with Team Foundation Source Code and in a project where a build server is installed.  I asked them to install Team Build Tray, a build notification tool that pops a toast when a build completes so they can be notified if it built successfully or not.  BTW, there are many such tools, one is included in the TFS Power Tools.

I had an issue where I couldn’t see the SQL Server 2000 (x32) performance counters on Windows Server 2003 x64.  Looks like it’s an x32 on x64 issue.

Love Bing but the background image takes too much bandwidth when you connect with a remote machine?  You can disable it by clicking on the Help link at the bottom of the Bing pages.

I was wondering if I could use a store procedure that returns multiple result sets with LINQ to SQL.  Looks like out of the box with the designer generated code, only the first result set will be returned.  A quick search lead me to this blog post by the Swiss MSDN team where they explain how to extend the DataContext code to retrieve more then one result set:

I saw John Bristowe twit about Demo Dashboard today and I was intrigued.  Sure looks cool but does it add “noise” to a presentation or is it really useful?  I guess I’ll have to try it some day.  The cool thing is that it shows how VS2010 can be extended.