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More On UIP Blue Bricks
After his interview , Michael Stuart (Senior Consultant with Microsoft Consulting Services and responsible for the Microsoft Application Blocks) has released more information about UIP (User Interface Process). A…
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Oops! Typed Datasets ARE scalable!
Note: This is part 3 of 3 articles on this subject: Part 1 - Introduction to Typed Datasets Part 2 - Typed Datasets Are Not Always The Answer Part 3 - Oops! Typed Datasets ARE scalable! I was wrong about typed datasets.…
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Oops! Typed Datasets ARE scalable!
I was wrong about typed datasets. I see the light now, but i was wrong before . The conclusion I came to was that Typed Datasets can be used in an enterprise application. The reason I thought this was a problem had to…
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Gotta Love BlogShares FAQ
I like the idea of BlogShares . I'm even listed. But you gotta love their FAQ : " 1. Isn't this just a popularity contest where the people with the popular blogs win? No answer has been given to this question. 2. What…
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Nice [Off Topic] Article
Neo's just an early adopter . I wonder if he's tried out Windows Server 2003 yet. [Posted By Robert McLaws ]
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VS.Net Tips & Tricks Category Is Up
OK. I just put up a post category for "VS.Net Tips & Tricks" so you keyboard junkies out there can save yourself some time looking. Here's the door . Contributions are more then welcome.
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Enough with the w.blogger garbage posts already
Ahhrgh! Enough w.Blogger Testing :( Use something meaningful for testing purposes. Write down the post you want to write in notepad or something, and then copy and paste it into w.blogger. This way , if the test works ,…
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MSDN staff
" Matt Powell is the lead Content Strategist for the MSDN XML Web Services Developer Center . Besides writing numerous articles for MSDN, various magazines, and co-authoring Running Microsoft Internet Information Server…
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DataSets, Web Services, DiffGrams, Arrays, and Interoperability
Here's a good article on MSDN : DataSets, Web Services, DiffGrams, Arrays, and Interoperability . "Summary: Matt Powell examines the issues involved in deciding whether to send DataSets to and from Web services, while…
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OneNote Is Cool But...
I've been trying out OneNote (And the whole Office 2003 Packge for that matter) for the last couple of days. It's cool. It's Hip. It.... can't share notes with outlook. The only way to do this is by enailing the notes…
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Blue Bricks
Great Interview with Michael Stuart on .Net Rocks Show . He's the main guy behind the Microsoft Application Blocks (Data Access, Exception Managent) and he talks about the future blocks (named 'blue bricks') that will…
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Blue Bricks
Great Interview with Michael Stuart on .Net Rocks Show . He's the main guy behind the Microsoft Application Blocks (Data Access, Exception Managent) and he talks about the future blocks (named 'blue bricks') that will…
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Typed Datasets Are Not Always The Answer
Note: This is part 2 of 3 articles on this subject: Part 1 - Introduction to Typed Datasets Part 3 - Oops! Typed Datasets ARE scalable! I've recently recieved an email regarding my article about typed-datasets . It…
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Typed Datasets Are Not Always The Answer
I've recently recieved an enail regarding my article about typed-datasets . It posed an interesting question as to when one would use typed datasets and on what types of projects. I'm posting it and my reply. Hi Roy, I…
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Books I Own
Here are the technology books I currently own: .Net: Design: VB: Ready to tun VB Algorithms Programming: Code Complete
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What Am I Missing?
Is it just me , or does the Windows Media Player 9 Fun Pack not install on windows server 2003 claiming it "Requires Windows XP" to install??
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The Mouse I Want(And So Will You)
This looks cool and I want one. [via Craig ] This is one of the coolest things i have ever seen!!! Take a look: [From the site:] The iGesture Pad is an ultra-thin, large-area, superduper touchpad that is both mouse and…
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Shared Memory Wrapper
Rich has written a shared memory wrapper for .NET. It looks pretty handy. Here's his description : I've created a wrapper for named shared memory that was part of a larger project. It basically allows serialized types…
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EchoStream Class
This Very nice EchoStream class that lets you map two stream object in which you read into one stream, and the input to that stream is automatically written to the other. It can also do the same for writing - Writing to…
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NUnitASP
Got this also from the win_tech_off_topic list: Here's something that looks really promising: NUnitASP . Since i'm currently not doing ASP.NET development, I can't really test it thoroughly, But if it's half as…
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More About Yukon?
Some amazing stuff can be found in this pdf article . I wonder when we'll see them come to life. From what I can tell/heared the Yukon release would integrate some if not all of this stuff in one way or another. I did…
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I Couldn't Help Myself
A 'bit' off topic, but I could not help myself : Here's the SellsBrothers team looking more natural. Beaverton, OR Saturday, April 12, 2003 [via Chris Sells ] I see now why he has been assimilated : You don't let go of…
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How to Pass A Microsoft Interview - SDE/T Edition
I was going through Chris Sell's Posts about Microsoft interviews and was amazed at the amount of interest these have generated. Quite frankly, I was intrigued as well. I do wonder what its like - being there. Those…
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More VS.NET Tips & Tricks
For you keyboard junkies out there: Cut the current line - CTRL+L (Saves you that 'long' HOME,SHIFT+END,CTRL+X) Delete the current line - CTRL+SHIFT+L (Saves you that 'long' HOME,SHIFT+END,DEL) Move to the closing or…
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A VS.NET 2003 Registry Tweaker Don Could Use
Since Don was writing on how you can tweak the registry in order to be able to ShellExecute VS.NET associated files into an open instance of VS.NET(instead of a new one each time), I decided to take the 'challenge' and…
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Advanced Dataset Helper Classes
While Trying to help my wife find material regarding dynamically creating tables at runtime, I stumbled across a very nice group of articles , All about Dataset helper Classes doinf various cool things with the dataset.…
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A Quick VS.NET Tweak
Don points a way to make VS.NET associated files load into the open instance of VS.NET instead of spawning a new instance every time thus saving precious load times. Sweet. Cumbersome, but sweet :) I should figure out a…
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Enterprise Instrumentation Framework Released
" With absolutely no fanfare, Enterprise Instrumentation Framework has released. EIF lets you instrument your applications with tracing information that's meant to be left in while the application is in production.…
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Build Your Own Research Library with Office 2003 and the Google Web Service API
"An article just popped up on the main msdn page, "Build Your Own Research Library with Office 2003 and the Google Web Service API" . The Office beta gets more interesting every day . Basically, its possible to consume…