May 2005 - Mike Taulty's Blog - Mike Taulty's Blog

SQL Server 2005: Unification of the Data Access Model

In the earlier builds of SQL Server 2005 you had to write your ADO.NET data access code slightly differently depending upon whether you were expecting the code to eventually run inside or outside of the database. We had namespaces such as System.Data.SqlClient...

Published Tue, May 31 2005 6:12 AM by mtaulty

Free Refactoring Tool for VB.NET in 2005

The link is up here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/downloads/2005/tools/refactor/ I've yet to have a play with it…

Published Tue, May 31 2005 4:06 AM by mtaulty

Just a bunch of links

Just some Avalon/Indigo links… Ian Griffiths has built a nice magnifying glass application for Avalon here: http://www.interact-sw.co.uk/iangblog/2005/05/29/magnify David Chappell has updated his excellent Indigo introductory document here; http://www.davidchappell...

Published Tue, May 31 2005 4:03 AM by mtaulty

Open Generics in .NET 2.0

Interesting post over here http://wesnerm.blogs.com/net_undocumented/2005/05/open_generic_ty.html - not something I'd seen.

Published Fri, May 27 2005 5:34 AM by mtaulty

Tom's Hardware on P4 versus Pentium M

Tom's hardware has a great article comparing Pentium M performance against Pentium 4 performance. It's a long article. The conclusion is here; http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20050525/pentium4-21.html The article's called "Kill the Pentium 4" - you can imagine...

Published Fri, May 27 2005 4:51 AM by mtaulty

Good article on web service access to SQL 2005

I was reading this article up here http://msdn.microsoft.com/sql/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnsql90/html/soapscenarios.asp about using SOAP to access SQL Server 2005 natively. It prompted me to write a little bit of code to build a "Query Analyzer" with...

Published Fri, May 27 2005 4:23 AM by mtaulty

MSDN Article on WS-Security Interop

There's a nice article up here http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/WSSInteropJWSDP15.asp on how to get WSE2.0 WS-Security and Sun's Java WSDP 1.5 to interop using WS-Security to secure SOAP messages with X509 certificates...

Published Fri, May 27 2005 3:12 AM by mtaulty

"Longhorn" and .NET

I find this story on the Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/26/dotnet_longhorn/ a bit puzzling. The quote that's puzzling me is this; "Mary Jo Foley reports that only some parts of Longhorn will be based on .NET 2.0, rather than the entire OS, as...

Published Fri, May 27 2005 2:05 AM by mtaulty

SQL CLR and SQL XML Guidance for SQL 2005

I got prompted to follow up what we're saying at the UK Roadshows around use of XML in SQL 2005 and use of CLR in SQL 2005. There's some excellent documents on this posted on the MSDN site; On XML: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library...

Published Thu, May 26 2005 6:30 AM by mtaulty

Indigo and Avalon: Beta 1 Release Candidate

There's an updated version of the WinFX bits compatible with Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2. They're here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=B789BC8D-4F25-4823-B6AA-C5EDF432D0C1&displaylang=en This is called a "Beta 1 Release Candidate...

Published Thu, May 26 2005 4:23 AM by mtaulty

Fresh back from the MSDN Roadshow in Birmingham

I've just got back from the 2-day MSDN Roadshow in Birmingham which seemed to go pretty well (I enjoyed it, anyway :-)). There's 2 more locations on the Roadshow tour over the next 2 weeks - Harrogate next week and London the week after. I'm doing a few bits...

Published Wed, May 25 2005 3:39 PM by mtaulty

Another Channel 9 video

2 great channel 9 videos come along on the same day for me - I don't normally watch them. This one is Karsten Januszewski presenting on Avalon. http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=62621#62621

Published Mon, May 23 2005 5:38 AM by mtaulty

Channel 9 Video on XML Editing Features in Visual Studio 2005

I caught this Channel 9 video on the new features for the XML editor in Visual Studio 2005. I'd seen some of these before but there were a couple in there that were new to me and it's all very nice stuff. The link's here http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx...

Published Mon, May 23 2005 5:14 AM by mtaulty

CLR Hosting Book

Whilst out on my holidays, I've been reading a great book on hosting the version 2.0 Common Language Runtime. From experience, people hosting the runtime themselves is fairly rare but, nonetheless, you can still learn a whole lot about how the CLR works from...

Published Sun, May 22 2005 4:44 AM by mtaulty

Indigo: Serialization

I've been spending a little time with Indigo over the last week or so (not nearly enough, of course) and I've got a slightly better picture of how the "main" features of Security, Reliability, Transactions fit together although there's probably a good few months...

Published Sat, May 14 2005 1:22 AM by mtaulty

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