Microsoft has released a new version of the SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer tool. The tool is from a Database Administrator’s (DBA) perspective and not from an architect nor developer’s perspective.
Check it out here:
There is a lot buzz about the Semantic Web. The possibilities that it offers are very exciting. The following is great intro video to answer the question, what is it, and what can it do for me?
Great news! As promised, the .NET Framework source code in Visual Studio 2008 is now available for debugging. Detail instructions and FAQ is available on Shawn Burke’s blog here.
Note, for users of 64bit edition, there is an extra manually step to do in the QFE fix.
The assemblies available for source viewing are:
I recently came across a fairly good set of links all related to LINQ:
http://blogs.msdn.com/charlie/archive/2006/10/05/Links-to-LINQ.aspx
With LINQ become more predominate every day, eventually some important will be asked as developers need to adopt new and different ways of accessing data repositories.
I recently came across a great (and detailed) FAQ that is sure to answer most questions.
http://blogs.msdn.com/dsimmons/pages/entity-framework-faq.aspx
I certainly answered my question, but not with the answer I was hoping for :(. Automatic mapping between Enums and a column in a table is not supported.
http://blogs.msdn.com/dsimmons/pages/entity-framework-faq.aspx#_Does_the_EDM/EF
I hope they rethink this as that kind of simplicity is what increases adoption of new technologies. It’s one the things that convinced me to start using NHibernate. Even LINQ to SQL supports automatic enum mapping.
Sourcegear is offering DiffMerge for free! Kudo’s for also making it cross-platform.
The product offers diff, merge, and folder diff.
I’ve been using FreeCommander for a while now. It’s a nice file manager that is lightwieght and fast. It also supports two windows side-by-side and multiple tabs in each window. Pretty cool.
I highly recommend it.
I recently came across an interesting looking program by StarInix called Free Database Compare 2.0. The great thing is that is support Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL.
With Windows XP the default behaviour for searching within files will ignore .SQL files.
To get around this you can add a registry setting which will force Windows to treat .SQL files as text so it can search within the file.
That’s it. You can do this for any other file type as well.
Perry
Ok first let me say great work for getting Silverlight 1.0 RC1 out with around 2000 bug fixes and major performance improvements!
Seriously though, what happened with 1.1?? Sure the core engine from 1.0 is now integrated in 1.1, but ultimately this refresh just pushes the expiry date!
Developers have been salivating over what is possible with Silverlight 1.1. It has been a long 3 months since Mix07 and all we get is this?? I’m really hoping that the Silverlight dev team has another branch that is really much more advanced in terms of features that we were promised.
I (and I’m sure many of developers) want to build full RIA applications with complete user inputs (textboxes, listboxes, dropdowns) etc… Yeah I know about the Silverlight UI Controls included in the SDK, but they are still separate and there were no new controls in the 200MB SDK download! There is also still no documentation for 1.1! But we got plenty of images (PSD) and Visio (vsd) files in the SDK.
I want to spend my time developing apps not basic controls!
I was really hoping that Silverlight 1.1 would be released at the same time as Visual Studio 200872008 and .NET Framework 3.5. It makes sense, however at this rate, it looks like MS will need another year to release 1.1. Guys, 1 year on the Internet is like an eternity! Please prove me wrong!
