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New Build of Win64 for x64?
News.com is saying that there will be a new build of Win64 for x64 on Monday.
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I bet Dr. Craig Barrett, CEO of Intel, is really upset now
4 GHz Pentium 4 is delayed till next year.
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Tooting my own horn........
Have you ever heard the phrase “The more I practiced, the luckier I got?” Well, that is how I feel right now. I have been working really hard recently on some relatively simple reporting code. There is a report query page and a report output page. Due to the nature of the application, both pages are written in classic ASP and run on a Windows 2k server.
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Win64 for x64? Wait till 2005
First Whidbey Beta 1 doesn't work with the build available on MSDN. According to the newsgroups, it only works on this magical mystical build 1184 that only official testers have.
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Intel CEO Dr. Barrett is upset with his employees
It seems that Dr. Craig Barrett of Intel is upset with his employees. I disagree with his views, but I couldn't resist responding to his latest memo with a smartass comment of my own.
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New build of .NET 2.0 Framework included with Yukon Beta 2
A new build of the .NET 2.0 Framework has been included with Sql Server 2005 Yukon Beta 2. This appears to be an incremental release with merely some framework bug fixes. The build number goes from something like .16 to .42 according to the newsgroup posts that I have read today. Unfortunately, I have not seen this myself. I am mentioning this because I have read this in one or two newsgroup posts. Your mileage may vary. If you have installed the beta 1 of Whidbey, you will need to uninstall the framework before performing a new install of Yukon beta 2. This information comes from the publically available newsgroup microsoft.private.sqlserver2005.relationalserver.clr on the MS NewsGroup Server at http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?icp=sqlserver2005&slcid=us. Enjoy your reading and adventures with Sql server 2005 Yukon Beta 2.
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Get your highspeed connections ready for Yukon Beta 2
According to the article listed below, Yukon will be available today to MSDN Universal and Professional subscribers.
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Whidbey / CLR debugging & Deployment tip
If you create a CLR Object in Whidbey with the VS.NET IDE and then try to deploy it in Sql Express, you will want to make sure that you are looking at the Output Window when you perform the deploy. If not and you get an error message in the lower left hand corner saying "Deploy Failed," you will be left wondering what in the heck is going on. -
Method Overloading in CLR Objects
I just wrote some CLR Objects with C# in Whidbey Beta 1 and Sql Express. I had a couple of methods named the same thing and I was going to use Method Overloading to call them given the parameters that I handed in. I compiled and everything was fine. I tried to deploy to my Sql Express database, and bango, multiple methods with the same name are not supported. Is there any “good way” to simulate method overloading in Sql Express / Yukon?
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Sql Express Books Online
Appologies if this has already made the rounds. Thanks to Kent Tegels for including this in his signature.
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What's your blog worth?
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Can you add a server control to the ASP.NET Whidbey LoginView Templates?
Sure looks like you can. I just did this in Visual Web Developer. I added a server side button into one of my templates, set the editor to display that template, and then dbl-clicked to go to the event. Everything seemed to work as it should. -
LoginView Control in ASP.NET Whidbey
First off, special thanks to Stephen Walther for his article on the new security features in Whidbey.
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What is the problem with Marketing People?
Why is there such a problem with Marketing People? I have dealt with numerous ones thru the years. None of them will ever listen to how the consulting business works. They just want to launch into selling something, anything, and they won't do the necessary homework and prepatory work, like understanding consulting, understanding who potential customers are, understand who the wrong potential customers are (you would be amazed at the number of worthless meetings I have gone to where the customer wants a custom developed package for the cost of something at CompUSA), creating marketing documentation, using a package like ACT! or Goldmine to document what is going on. Just this week, a lady that has worked for my father told him that she didn't need to know any of that stuff and she acted like she didn't need to learn anything about a computer. What is wrong these marketing people?
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ASP.NET Whidbey logon controls
If you are looking at the ASP.NET Whidbey logon controls, you will most likely want to change two things. The first item is the logon page that your site uses. To set that, go into the web.config and set the value for the loginUrl to something like what you see below. Note that I removed the timeout value. Thanks to Greg Beamer for reminding me of the basics. ;-)
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Do you own a Dell laptop?
If you own a Dell laptop, you might want to look for small cracks in and around the hinges that hold the LCD to the system both on the top of the laptop and the back. I called Dell about a different hardware problem and the guy on the other end asked if I had any cracks. He stated that both the problem I called about and the cracks would be taken care of. I have an Inspiron 8200.
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Whidbey Web Site Admin Tool
If you are using the Whidbey Web Site Admin Tool with Beta 1, be careful when you are setting up the databases in the Profile section. If you misspell the database that you want to use, the Admin Tool will automatically create a new database with the name of the misspelled database, instead of the database that you want to use. This took me a couple of hours to figure out last week. I was using a fresh database that I had already created, so the fact that I could not see my new tables was causing a lot of confusion for me. Once I figured out what was going on, it was easy enough to resolve. -
MSDN Product Feedback
If you have not done so, go look at the MSDN Product Feedback application. It looks to be a pretty good spot to provide feedback on Whidbey issues as they come up. It is easy to track what you have put in. This is much nice than the newsgroups and trying to remember where you put something in.
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Paul Wilson lovefest
http://channelzone.ziffdavis.com/article2/0,1759,1623736,00.asp
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What do you do with a database that is specific to that database?
Hi folks. I am looking for some information from you regarding features that you use in databases where those features fall outside of the “standard“ set of database features. For example, all database support things that are standard. The sql language is relatively standard, in that each major database supports insert, update, delete, and select (though joins seem to have slightly differing syntaxes). Each database seems to have their own extensions to do something that is specific to them or not handled well by the standard sql language. What do you do with a database (Sql Server, Oracle, DB/2, MySql, or whatever) that is fairly database specific? For example, do you use the Sql Servver full text search Contains or FreeText commands to query data, which is different than the MySql Match command? Do you use the database to store BLOBs? Here is my current list of general items that are different. Please feedback with ones that are different along with the database that you use them in.
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Clippy in VS.NET Whidbey? Say it ain't so......
http://www.theserverside.net/news/thread.tss?thread_id=27202
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Check out the Web Site Application Administration Tool in ASP.NET Whidbey
If you have not already seen it, the Web Site Application Admin Tool included with ASP.NET Whidbey is very nice. Things that I used to pull my hair out regarding the specific syntax are now done for you in an application. This is very nice. Ok, so how do you bring it up? In Visual Web Developer, go to the Website ->ASP.NET Configuration option and it will come up. From here, you can setup a bunch of things to configure your ASP.NET Whidbey Web Application. -
ASP.NET Whidbey Overview - Feedback Request.
Hi folks. I am currently working on a presentation regarding ASP.NET in Whidbey. Feel free to take a look at this powerpoint document and provide some feedback. Let me know if you think that there are some things that should be added or taken out. This is for some User Group presentations that I am doing over the next few months in Knoxville, Huntsville, and Birmingham.
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DataSource controls really do work in ASP.NET Whidbey
I wrote some code in ASP.NET Whidbey last night to use the DataSource controls. Wow, this stuff really does work. I used it to perform some queries against my Web Search with .NET code. Here it is and it actually does work. There is a drop down list box that is populated with the server name. On a change of the server name drop down, the grid on the page changes and displays all of the items that are found in the database that are associated with that domain name. The one question that I have had is how would you put a blank item into the drop down list box as the selected item and keep the query from running the first time thru? I assume it is something in the Page_Load event. Suggestions?
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Dynamically setting a theme in ASP.NET Whidbey from a drop down list box
With some suggestions from ScottW and J. Ambrose Little, I just got done with some code to dynamically set a page's theme thru a drop down list box. While this code works, I think the code that I finished with is pretty ugly, so if you have some suggestions, I am more than glad to hear them. BTW, I tried to use the Control.ClientID to get the value from the Request.Form collection with little luck. Even through the form on the master page is set to perform a GET, it still seems to be performing a POST. Note that UglySkin is a theme that I created that is visually disgusting.
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ADO.NET 2.0 Feature Set
Saw this on MSDN, thru larkware.com. Bob Beauchemin has an article on ADO.NET Features in Whidbey, sql Express, and Yukon. http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/ado2featurematrix.asp
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What Sql Express supports (and some things it doesn't)
I had a question come up regarding what is supported in Sql Express (specifically full-text search). I pulled this from the Books Online for Sql Express. It describes the features in Sql Express and what won't be in Sql Express.
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Upgrading an application from VS.NET 2003 to VS.NET Whidbey
I just updated my Web Search with .NET code to run under Whidbey and to use Sql Express as the database. I had some problems getting the database structure in Sql Express. The application consists of some winforms applications to walk thru the web, MSMQ to provide an asynchronous method to store data (also, its out of process, so I am not stuck with exhausting the threadpool in my application). Once I changed my database connection strings and created my message queues, everything seems to just work. Due to the fact that this application use multiple projects, I used VS.NET as oppossed to the C# Express.
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Whidbey & MySql
I downloaded MySql for Windows Server the other day along with the MySqlDriverCS. This morning, I create a small sample table and then I inserted some data using a Command() method. I then followed it up with a call to DataSet.Fill(). It seems that command to insert data worked along with the query that is being run with the dataset.
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New builds of MySql
Not that anyone really cares, but I just ran across some new builds of MySql for Windows (and other platforms).
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Sql Express build released this week != Yukon Beta 2
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx?productID=&freetext=sql+express&DisplayLang=en
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Want to import a database into Sql Express
I am sure that there are multiple ways to import some data into Sql Express. I have been detaching my database from Sql2k, copying it to Sql Express, and attaching it to Sql Express using the sp_attach_db command to attach the database. Seems to work fine for me. What have you done?
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Direct URLs for Downloading the Express SKUs from Microsoft
if you are looking for the direct URLs to download the express products, check these out:Dotnet 2.0: http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/6/6/9666067a-660f-48e0-a755-a83a81036b67/dotnetfx.exeVisual Web Developer: http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/e/1/6e1e9b98-928c-45f0-b44b-39f205090446/vwdsetup.exeWally -
What are the most exciting changes to the BCL in Whidbey and Why?
I am working on a user group talk regarding .NET in Whidbey. I have a question for the general pool of .NET developers. What do you see as the most exciting changes in the Base Class Libraries in Whidbey and Why?
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.NET 1.1 Service Pack 1 and .NET 1.0 Service Pack 3 - Tech Preview
Lost within all of the excitement over TechEd Europe, Whidbey, the Express Family, and other exiting items, it seems that the .NET 1.1 Service Pack 1 and .NET 1.0 Service Pack 3 Technical Preview Announcements were lost in that boring “current release” mindset. I just heard about them in Paschal's blog. So, if you are interested, here is what I found: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx?productID=C9C8FCFB-BFF3-40CA-B59D-216F6850000A&freetext=service+pack&DisplayLang=en
