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May 2005 - Posts

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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 31, 2005 6:12 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

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… Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 31, 2005 4:06 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

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.com/IntroducingIndigo_v2.pd Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 31, 2005 4:03 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

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. Read More...
Posted Friday, May 27, 2005 5:34 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

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 Read More...
Posted Friday, May 27, 2005 4:51 AM by mtaulty | 1 Comments

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" Read More...
Posted Friday, May 27, 2005 4:23 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

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 Read More...
Posted Friday, May 27, 2005 3:12 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

"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 Read More...
Posted Friday, May 27, 2005 2:05 AM by mtaulty | 2 Comments

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/en-us/dnsql90/html/sql25xmlbp.asp Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 26, 2005 6:30 AM by mtaulty | 2 Comments

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" Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 26, 2005 4:23 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

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 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 25, 2005 3:39 PM by mtaulty | 2 Comments

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 Read More...
Posted Monday, May 23, 2005 5:38 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

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?PostID=64642#64642 Read More...
Posted Monday, May 23, 2005 5:14 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

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 Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 22, 2005 4:44 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

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 Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 14, 2005 1:22 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Moving from VB6 to Visual Studio 2005

This is a bit of a "test" post in that I don't usually get a lot of comments back on this site so this might not be the best mechanism for asking people things. There are a lot of Visual Basic 6 developers still out there in the UK who are building web Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 14, 2005 1:01 AM by mtaulty | 8 Comments

ASP.NET Browser Extension Tool

I spotted this http://www.nikhilk.net/ASPNETDevHelperTool.aspx posting which has a nice little IE extension for people doing ASP.NET development. Read More...
Posted Friday, May 13, 2005 10:22 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

OneCare sounds interesting…

I know a lot of people who need a service like the (just announced) Windows OneCare: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/onecare/default.mspx Read More...
Posted Friday, May 13, 2005 8:22 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Interesting news story on the Intel desktop/server processor roadmap.

Essentially the move away from the P4 architecture back to the P3 architecture for forthcoming dual-core processors - the story says it all. Here http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/13/intel_confirms_netburst_end/ Read More...
Posted Friday, May 13, 2005 8:21 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Update on Visual Studio Team System Pricing/Licensing

A bit of news! This post http://blogs.msdn.com/rickla/archive/2005/05/12/416994.aspx contains information on the updated pricing/licensing announcement for Visual Studio 2005 Team System. Go take a look. Read More...
Posted Friday, May 13, 2005 7:19 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Gone Fishing

This site will be a little bit quiet for a week or so as I'm off on holiday :-) Read More...
Posted Friday, May 13, 2005 7:07 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Switching blogging client

On advice from Martin ( http://www.cooboogler.co.uk ) I've switched my blogging Client to an InfoPath form from here http://blogs.msdn.com/guowu/archive/2004/07/20/187990.aspx So, far, there's no going back - I was using FrontPage and Bloggar before but Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 11, 2005 3:43 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Mixing Code and Config

With .NET came a new technique for me in programming. I'm sure it existed before but I see it mostly in Avalon with XAML and in Indigo with its configuration system. The technique I'm referring to is one of being able to write explicit code to create Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 11, 2005 3:35 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Nice looking Avalon app

This Avalon App looks pretty cool :-) Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 10, 2005 3:55 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Indigo: Asynchronous patterns

Excellent link over here http://blogs.msdn.com/mjm/archive/2005/05/04/414793.aspx about asynchronous programming in Indigo. I need to play with this to get my head around it but the link certainly helps a lot. Subscribed! Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 10, 2005 3:51 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Indigo: Some rough notes on ServiceHost.Open()

This post is really just a collection of random notes I made the other day when I was staring at the simplicity of the following Indigo code; [ServiceContract] public class Printer { [OperationContract] public void Print(string s) { Console.WriteLine(s); Read More...
Posted Monday, May 02, 2005 10:57 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments