January 2008 - Mike Taulty's Blog

SQLBits - Birmingham, 1st March

Just a quick plug :-) I'm speaking at the "SQLBits" conference in Birmingham on the 1st March. The agenda is up here . The agenda is built by voting from prospective attendees and I found it interesting in that I submitted a few sessions that looked something...

Published Wed, Jan 30 2008 2:06 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: LINQ, SQLServer

The Same Language As Me

Joel's got a really good point about Microsoft double-speak. Hope I don't get in trouble with my employer for mentioning at my event yesterday that "SQL Server is Delayed" :-) For people who've been following the various SQL CTPs, I can't see this (relatively...

Published Wed, Jan 30 2008 1:41 AM by mtaulty

Remote Debugging with MSVSMON.EXE

Another screencast that I put together - this really goes with the other ones about debugging and comes after someone dropped me a mail asking how to get msvsmon.exe to work. Remote Debugging with MSVSMONEXE.aspx

Published Fri, Jan 25 2008 11:11 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET

Vista Squad January Meeting

Just a quick plug for the next meeting of the "Vista Squad". This is happening on the Microsoft Campus in Reading on the 31st January and there are two sessions. One is from James O'Neill who's a member of my wider team and the other is from Ray Booysen about...

Published Fri, Jan 25 2008 11:04 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: UKCommunities

ADO.NET Data Services - Screecasts

I made a few more videos; ADO.NET Data Services - Querying with LINQ ADO.NET Data Services - Query Interceptors ADO.NET Data Services - Service Operations to go with these videos . Note, there are some "technical difficulties" at the moment in getting some...

Published Fri, Jan 25 2008 7:55 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: ADO.NET, EntityFramework, DataAccess

Entity Framework Links (and one other)

Entity Framework Toolkits & Extras How Does The Entity Designer Generate Code? How To Extract CSDL from EDMX Oh...and I also encountered this; http://www.fishticuffs.co.uk/ Which Mike used to slap me around the face with a big fish - try it :-)

Published Fri, Jan 25 2008 1:36 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: ADO.NET, EntityFramework

Reparenting nodes in LINQ to XML

Someone mailed me the other day with a query as to how they can use LINQ to XML in order to change this XML file; <? xml version ="1.0" encoding ="utf-8" ? > < root > < x > < a /> < b /> </ x > < c /> < d /> <...

Published Thu, Jan 24 2008 4:08 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: LINQ, XML

UK Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Launch

If you'd like to attend the UK Launch of VS, SQL and Windows Server then the event is now live for you to register yourself here; Launch Registration Site In order to work out whether you want to do that or not, you can check out the agenda from here; Launch...

Published Wed, Jan 23 2008 6:22 AM by mtaulty

LinkSys USB200M

My media center PC has a problem. It's a Shuttle PC, I've blogged the specs on this website before but I think the base spec is SN85G4V2 if I remember correctly. It's all fine and Media Center works better with Vista than it did with XP for me so that's a good...

Published Wed, Jan 23 2008 3:29 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: Hardware

Desktop Switching App 2008 ("Old Code is Another Country")

I resurrected an older piece of sofware that I wrote today. A while ago, before I encountered Virtual Desktop Manager and DeskSpace I wanted to write a little tool that'd let me have multiple desktops on Vista. It's nowhere near as good as either of those tools...

Published Fri, Jan 18 2008 4:40 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C++, Vista

Holding down the power button

This is a bit of a sad tale. I came to my laptop this morning and it said that I had no network connectivity. I did an ipconfig and saw that I had no ipaddress. I did an ipconfig /renew and I got an error saying "no adapter is in a suitable state" (I'm sure...

Published Fri, Jan 18 2008 1:57 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: Vista

Desktop Icon "Ghosting" bug?

I keep encountering what feels like a bug. Not sure if it's in the DWM or Explorer or the driver or what. I dragged a file called capture.jpg from my desktop into Messenger and I'm left with a "ghost" icon which floats above the desktop and on top of any other...

Published Fri, Jan 18 2008 1:47 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: Vista

ADO.NET Data Services - Screencasts

I made a few videos about Data Services. I have plans to make a few more as well but (as always :-)) I've got distracted by something else so, for the meantime; ADO.NET Data Services - Surfacing Data ADO.NET Data Services - Querying with URI's ADO.NET Data...

Published Thu, Jan 17 2008 5:06 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, EntityFramework, DataAccess, DataServices

But I Just Want To Copy A File :-(

I've been staring at this dialog for just over 5 minutes. What the heck does it mean? I'm copying a 23MB file from a local hard-drive to a network shared drive (I blanked out the names above to protect the innocent :-)). I can accept that it's maybe a bit slow...

Published Thu, Jan 17 2008 2:33 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: OffTopic

ADO.NET Data Services - Silverlight Add-On

Just a quick link to make this easier to find; ADO.NET Data Services Silverlight Add-On

Published Wed, Jan 16 2008 4:10 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: ADO.NET, Silverlight, EntityFramework, DataAccess, DataServices