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How NOCOUNT affects ADO.NET
A co-worker recommended we include "SET NOCOUNT ON" in all stored procedures, since it reduces the network traffic for queries. I did a bit of digging; here's my take on it:
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IE7 Standalone Launcher updated for RC1
IE7 RC1 is out, so my launcher script needed an update. You can get it here. Read the previous relase announcement here.
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Microsoft should ship SubSonic (formerly called ActionPack) with Atlas
Yesterday, Phil got me to watch the SubSonic screencast (it was actually called the ASP.NET ActionPack and was since renamed). I'd seen posts about it on my main RSS feeds and had ignored it because everyone had been giving their posts titles like "ActionPack - Ruby on Rails for ASP.NET." I've watched all the ROR screencasts and have been a little underwhelmed1, so I didn't bother reading further. Big mistake.
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San Diego User Group (8/22/06) - Toolbox Meeting
On Tuesday I was one of several presenters at the San Diego .NET User Group's second annual Toolbox meeting. The presentations were supposed to be "rapid-fire (15 – 20 minutes), brief presentations", but I kind of took it to the extreme. I presented eleven of my favorite tools in under 18 minutes.
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[Tools] Switched to Notepad++, here's my C# syntax file
I replaced Notepad with Notepad2 on all my computers when Roy Osherove recommended it back in 2004. I've really appreciated it - it's small and lightweight like Notepad, but has some great features like syntax highlighting, block selection, and regular expression search.
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Speaking at the 8/22 San Diego .NET User Group Meeting
The San Diego .NET User Group is having their second anual "toolbox" meeting on 8/22/06, and I'll be one of the presenters. This sounds like it will be a lot of fun - several user group members doing rapid-fire 15 minute presentations.
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CodeProject - Avoiding software licensing makes for a very bad license
Update: CodeProject has added license support since I wrote this. Hooray!