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Win2k3 SP1 along with the x64 builds are on MSDN for Subscribers
Windows 2003 SP1 along with the x64 builds are on MSDN for Subscribers
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Windows 2003 SP1 goes RTM
It was just announced that Windows 2003 SP1 has gone RTM. As a result of that, SP1 for Windows 2003 Server will be available shortly at Microsoft's web site and the x64 versions of Windows 2003 SP1 and XP will be available soon. Nice, a real, live, mainstream 64 bit operating system for us.
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The Regular Guys Return
Ok, the really returned last week, but this has been the first day that I have had an opportunity to listen @ http://www.wgst.com/stream.html.
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Hosting multiple domain emails on Exchange 2k3
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Scott Guthrie's Presentations from last week - ASP.NET 2.0 Tips-n-Tricks & ASP.NET 2.0 Master Pages & Themes
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Reference one control from another control while within a Repeater (or DataGrid)
I have a dropdownlist (aka drop down list) box within a repeater. When the index change event fires, I want to make some changes in another control. The problem in doing this was that I could not figure out how I could reference another control. Well, thanks to Scott Mitchell's articles on the datagrid, I was able to figure this out. First, all my repeater elements were editable, so everything was setup within an ItemTemplate column. This only caused me issues in my thinking about it, not in my doing. So, within my SelectedIndexChanged event, I have the following code:
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Firefox 1.0.2 is out
http://www.mozilla.org
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Selecting columns in a query
I've always known this, but I thought I would share it.
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Binary XML
http://news.com.com/Faster+XML+ahead/2100-1007_3-5630957.html?tag=nefd.lede
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Oh great, a new telemarketing spam solution masquerading as a "customer service tool"
http://news.com.com/Ever+need+to+phone+7%2C000+people+at+once/2100-1041_3-5630918.html?tag=nefd.top
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Visual Basic .NET Shortcircuited And
I think that AndAlso is just so much more elegant than the old Visual Basic 6 And.
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"The url for this project is in the internet zone" - Visual Studio .NET 2003 message
If you have gotten the above message when attempting to debug an ASP.NET application with Visual Studio .NET 2003, you might want to take a look at the .webinfo file for your web project. Mine got changed from the http://localhost to http://ipaddress and bad things started to happen.
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Sunday was ugly - Louisville over Georgia Tech
When the NCAA basketball brackets were announced on 3/13, I saw this second round game as a problem. On sunday, my fears were realized as Louisville crushed my beloved Georgia Tech YellowJackets 76-54. This ended a season that four months ago looked so promising. A couple of injuries during the season limited several players and the result was a bad streak during the mid-season (4-5) and the resulting poor seeding in the tournament resulting in our playing Louisville, which ran right over us.
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Today is my Blog's second birthday
Two years ago today, ScottW set my blog up for me and I made my first post about the fact I was working on my Timesheet program. Inspite of the fact that one specific person (that I love to harassas) hates the fact I talk about non-technical things, I have enjoyed listing all the things that I am involved with. I've tried to post lots of various information in this blog, from my personal exercse information, mistakes I have seen made by other developers, code samples for things that I have worked on, ideas on Whidbey/Yukon, my talks at User Groups, Cocah Dad, and more. I'd like your suggestions for posts, so please leave me a comment.
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Congratulations to Kent Tegels on joining DevelopMentor
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First upset - Wisconsin-Milwaukee over Alabama 83-73
Oh my, let the fun begin. http://sports-att.espn.go.com/ncb/gameupdate?gameId=254000050&confId=null
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Microsoft expands efforts to transistion from VB6 to .NET
http://news.com.com/Microsoft+walks+VB+tight+rope/2100-1007_3-5620821.html?tag=nefd.top
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Visual Basic .NET <--> C#
I switch back and forth between Visual Basic and C#. Sometimes, the project changes, but I keep writing the same code. For some reason, I keep wanting to put the "static" keyword into my VB code. I should have been using "shared" in VB/NET. I couldn't figure out the error while I stared straight at the code for a few minutes. What stumps you in switching between the two languages?
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Datagrid examples - Make all rows editable and Building an add section into your datagrid.
I've been doing a lot of ASP.NET 1.1 work over the last couple of weeks and the key thing I have worked on is the datagrid/datalist/repeater controls. First off, I want to say thanks to Scott Mitchell of 4guysfromrolla.com. Scott has a great set of articles on the datagrid. I've been using article 17 regarding how to make the datagrid editable. It has been very instructive to me. I don't have everything completed quite yet, but what he has in his article so far has been very helpful to me.
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New Indigo CTP now available
For MSDN Subscribers, the new CTP for Indigo has just made it out the door and been posted.
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Users Express Confidence in SQL Server 2005 Performance
Jim Holt, vice president of server development for Townsend Analytics Ltd., said that data rates are "extremely high" in the real-time electronic trading company's deployment of the database's Beta 2.
"[We're processing] 50,000 transactions per second," said Holt, in Chicago. "I've seen peaks of 100,000 messages per second."
That's a performance gain of about 20 percent over early, pre-Beta 2 builds of the product, Holt said, measured on high-end but still commodity hardware.
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Sql Server 2005 on the .NET Show
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asp.netPro Magazine reader's choice awards
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EWeek states that Forrester Research is not enthusiastic about Sql Server 2005
This major upgrade of Microsoft Corp.'s enterprise relational DBMS is due in the summer. Summer being only a few months away, it's "surprising" that no TPC-C results have yet been published, according to Noel Yuhanna, author of the report, titled "SQL Server 2005 Likely to Fall Short in High-End Performance Delivery."
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Service Pack for Visual Studio .NET 2002
Did you know that there is a Service Pack for VS.NET 2002? I didn't, but just stumbled over it. I don't have anything on VS.NET 2002 at this time. The url is: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c41d8159-b42f-4d06-a797-e510494976ee&displaylang=en
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Create your own VB.COM - A suggestion to the MVPs that want their VB6 back
I have read this evening where a number of MVPs are signing a petition asking for Microsoft to add Classic VB back into the Visual Studio IDE. I would suggest that since they see a market for this, they can download the VSIP SDK and build an open source addin to Visual Studio so that they can have their own VB.COM.BTW, I love to program in VB. I think it is a great language. I write stuff in it today. I have been doing my demos in VB.NET. VB6 was a great language and environment. It still is. Applications run with it today. Given the choice, I just don't want to go back. And, I don't want the total confusion this would create. 2 VBs? No thanks.WallyPS. I wish I could take credit for the idea, but Paul Murphy came up with the idea in an IM conversation last night. Geez, I wish I was as smart as him. :-) -
WTF?!? Bring back Visual Basic 6? You are kidding me!
http://classicvb.org/petition/ You have got to be kidding me................
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Atlanta Code Camp on May 14
Mark your Calendars. On May 14th, the Atlanta Code Camp will happen. I'll be doing my talk on ADO.NET in Whidbey/Yukon.
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ADO.NET Whidbey/Yukon talk on June 14 in Huntsville, AL
I will be speaking in Huntsville, AL at the Visual Studio Dot Net User Group on the subject of ADO.NET in Whidbey/Yukon on April 14, 2005.
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April 14 in Birmingham, AL
I will be speaking in Birmingham, AL at the Birmingham Software Developer Association on the subject of ADO.NET in Whidbey/Yukon on April 14, 2005.
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Really good post regarding debugging options in Yukon
http://weblogs.asp.net/ravisu/archive/2005/03/09/390764.aspx
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Funny quote from my talk in Chattanooga last night
I got this in an email this morning from the person that I went brain dead on:
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ADO.NET Whidbey/Yukon talk in Chattanooga
I just got back from doing my ADO.NET Whidbey/Yukon talk in Chattanooga. Everything went really well. I got one question that I drew a blank on when it was asked, but I remembered the answer right afterwards. I tracked the person's email address down before I left, so I am going to send him my response. Anyway, it was a good time. I realy enjoy doing my ADO.NET Whidbey/Yukon talk.
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I think I'll add Joe Tucci of EMC Systems to my list
Okay, here is another guy to go along with Craig Barrett of Intel. I can guarantee the problem is not that they can't find engineers, scientists, developers, and such. The problem is that they can't find these people at the rates that these companies want to pay. I have no sympathy for Intel, EMC, or anyone else that wants to whine and cry like this.
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Google Desktop is released
Story on eWeek at: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1772568,00.asp
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Winforms change in February CTP
I just brought up a winforms app that I original wrote in beta 1 last summer and have migrated to various builds since then. The app is designed to show some new features of Sql Server 2005. When I loaded this app in the February CTP, I get a warning message stating that AutoScaleBaseSize() as System.Drawing.Size is obsolete.
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Sql Express Manager runs under Windows for x64
Wow, this is so cool. The previous build didn't run under Windows for x64. There was no mention of a problem in the help file that I could fine. I just fired it up a few minutes ago on my x64 system, and bang, there it was. It came up and I was able to run some queries. Very nice.
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Looking for all the downloads for the February CTPs?
Kent Tegels has got all the info at http://sqljunkies.com/WebLog/ktegels/archive/2005/03/03/8404.aspx
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Oh, what a beautiful sight......Sql Server Management Studio running on Windows for x64
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Sql Server 2005 February CTP on x64
I just got done formatting and reinstalling Win64 for x64 onto my AMD64 system. Now that the operating system is up and running with no additional junk, it appears that Sql Server 2005 February CTP has gotten much further into the install process. I'll post more later, after the install is complete. I'm hoping to have some screen shots if everything goes well.
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Don't forget to enable the CLR after you install the the Sql Server 2005 February CTP
http://weblogs.asp.net/wallym/archive/2004/10/19/244766.aspx
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Sql Server December CTP Objects run in the February CTP
I have just done a very quick test and found that the CLR objects I had running in the December CTP seem to port over and run with not pain and agony in the February CTP of Sql Server 2005. It looks like the pain and agony will start with Beta 3, where things are destined to change................
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Warning Messages with Sql Server CTP and 50110 when Debugging
I was just playing with the debugger in Visual Studio .NET February CTP release. After attaching to the Sql Server process, I set a breakpoint and I got this message. I don't remember seeing this warning message before. Wow, very nice. I find it interesting that people are surprised when the IIS stops responding when someone is attempting to debug within that process. To get this gentle reminder is nice.
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WinFS to be backported to WinXP?
Mary Jo Foley is reporting that Microsoft is planning on backporting WinFS to WindowsXP.
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Sql Express Manager - February 2005 CTP
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Visual Studio .NET 2005 and Sql Server 2005 February 2005 CTPs
They are on MSDN now for subscribers. Go get'em.
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ADO.NET Talk in Chattanooga - Will try to use the February CTP bits
I am doing an ADO.NET Talk in Chattanooga on March 8. I am going to try and get my code running in the February CTP of Sql Server and Visual Studio .NET. Unfortunately, this build does not have all the changes in the CLR objects. Those changes will be coming in the full Beta 3 of Sql Server 2005 in the spring.
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Visual Studio .NET 2005 February CTP
I just checked and while the Sql Server February CTP and the Visual Studio .NET February CTP are not on MSDN for subscribers, at least I can't find them at this moment, the Visual Studio February CTP is on betaplace. I have just started downloading it my cable modem. I setup the Sql Server February CTP in a Virtual PC Session last night, so this will be the next step. I'm looking forward to seeing if any of my October/December code comes forward.
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Have patience when installing Sql Server 2005 CTP
Have patience when installing the Sql Server 2005 CTP. I installed it into a VPC image and it was really slow, but it did finish. Its not too bad, just be patient, which is hard for someone like me.
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My life is coming back, the Regular Guys return to radio. Happy Days are here again.........
Larry & Eric are returning to radio starting on Monday March 21 @ 8:00 am on WGST 640 AM in Atlanta. I look forward to listening to them over the web again.
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Sql Server 2005 February CTP (but its March)
I just got an email stating that there is a new Sql Server 2005 CTP available. It is on betaplace and will be on MSDN real soon. Along with this build, there will be a new version of VS.NET specifically for the February Sql Server 2005 CTP. It looks like there is more 64bit stuff in this build (drool, drool) according to the documentation I read. The files are much bigger than they were on previous builds. More info coming.
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Welcome to Anand Narayanaswamy
I would like to welcome Anand Narayanaswamy as the technical editor for our ADO.NET Version 2 book. Here is some info about Anand:
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64 bit Windows due in April
SAN FRANCISCO--Microsoft said it plans next month to offer long-awaited 64-bit versions of its Windows operating system.
Speaking at the Intel Developer Forum, Windows chief Jim Allchin said the desktop version of the souped-up Windows would come at the beginning of April, while the server version would come at the end of the month.
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Full-Text Search Chapter
I have just emailed my full-text search chapter to my publisher. If you are reading this, I was successful and my laptop was not stolen before I sent it off. Yippeee..............
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Yahoo Developer Network
Yahoo has created a Developer Network for their search services. It is located at http://developer.yahoo.net/.
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Grid Computing on Windows
Grid computing has largely been in the realm of Unix and Linux, but some developers are looking to bring Microsoft Corp. into the mix.
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Want to see what Full-Text Search Filters are currently running on Sql Server 2005?
Call the sproc sp_help_fulltext_extensions. You will get a list of the file types and the location of the filter along with some additional information.
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Full-Text Indexing a PDF file with Sql Server 2005 December CTP (aka Yukon)
I just got finished installing and setting up the full-text indexing of a pdf file for Sql Server 2005 December CTP Build. Here are the steps to getting it working (assuming you have a functioning table to store BLOB data).