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September 2005 - Posts

Visual Studio and SQL 2005 UK Launch Events

Registration for the VS 2005 and SQL 2005 Launch Events in the UK is now live on the internet at the URL below; http://www.microsoft.com/uk/windowsserversystem/launchtour/default.mspx One thing that's not mentioned but I have on good authority is that Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 28, 2005 9:48 AM by mtaulty | 1 Comments

SQL Event with Kalen Delaney at Microsoft Reading, October 18th

There's a SQL event with the excellent Kalen Delaney running at Microsoft on the 18th October - check here http://www.sqlserverfaq.com/?eid=61 for details. The theme is around concurrency which, to me, is one of the most important things that a relational Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 28, 2005 7:25 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

SQL Changes for RTM

I was trying to move some of my older demos of SQL 2005 from the June CTP across to the September CTP builds and had some trouble particularly around deploying assemblies that are using EXTERNAL ACCESS and also around sending/receiving with service broker. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 28, 2005 7:19 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

WSE: Certificate Management Tool

Here's something I got caught with today. I'm using the WSE 3.0 Beta 1 Certificate Management tool to try and set up my certificate so that the ASPNET account has access to it. However, when I bring up the tool there is no "security" tab, it's completely Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 22, 2005 4:02 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Visual Studio, SQL, WinFX, WSE: Managing Versions

I came back from the PDC with lots of different software versions which now have me in a bit of a muddle. As far as I can work out I have; 1) VS 2005 Beta 2 which is required by the WinFX build given out at the PDC including Windows Communication/Presentation/Workflow Read More...
Posted Monday, September 19, 2005 1:02 AM by mtaulty | 2 Comments

PDC 05: The Best Laid Plans…

My well intentioned plans to blog from the PDC went down the drain :-) I found that there was too much time spent in sessions and chatting in between them to actually get anything written down and, also, others were doing a much better job of it for me Read More...
Posted Monday, September 19, 2005 12:59 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

WSE 3.0 Beta 1 - Need a new framework?

On the plane across to the PDC yesterday one of the things I was trying to achieve was to replace my installation of the WSE 3.0 CTP with the newly available WSE 3.0 Beta 1 build. What I hadn't realised was that WSE 3.0 Beta 1 needs a .NET Framework build Read More...
Posted Sunday, September 11, 2005 8:53 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Trying to cram too much technology into your head?

I just came across this post which describes very well a feeling I've been having for a while about the sheer volume of new developer technology that Microsoft is releasing into the world. Worth a read. Read More...
Posted Sunday, September 11, 2005 8:46 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

PDC 05: Pre Conference Day 1

I'm writing this from the balcony at the Los Angeles Convention Centre where PDC 2005 is just slowly coming to life with the first of its pre-conference days. It's about 8.20am and I'm waiting for the breakfast to be served :-) I came in with a number Read More...
Posted Sunday, September 11, 2005 8:33 AM by mtaulty | 2 Comments

Quiet…

This blog site's a little quiet at the moment - I've been out on holiday for a couple of weeks and trying to stay away from the PC :-) Next stop….PDC, there should be some things to blog from there! Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 07, 2005 1:44 PM by mtaulty | 0 Comments