April 2005 - Posts

Managed Code Performance

Published Sat, Apr 30 2005 22:28 | GregLow

Fresh from Dominic Cooney's great session at Code Camp Oz (on managed code performance), I finally got to finish a book from another friend Nick Wienholt . Maximizing .NET Performance (ISBN 1-59059-141-0) is a great read. I'm only sorry I ended up taking...

PASS Conference

Published Thu, Apr 28 2005 11:54 | GregLow

Just preparing for the PASS conference in Munich (leave here Saturday week) and got the news that my session has also been picked up for the PASS conference in Dallas later in the year. It's co-located with the SQL Server MVP summit so I'm really looking...

VB.NET and Refactoring support - Great News

Published Thu, Apr 21 2005 18:27 | GregLow

Hi Folks, Been busting to tell you about this and just got the nod that says I can. All the whinging (discussing?) we did about the lack of refactoring support in VB.NET (as compared to C# in 2005) has paid off. Microsoft have come to an arrangement with...

Wonder if we'll ever see this is Australia?

Published Wed, Apr 20 2005 19:42 | GregLow

I wonder if we'll ever see this in Australia. Philadelphia has announced plans to turn the entire city into a low-cost wireless hotspot. http://news.com.com/Philadelphia+reveals+Wi-Fi+plan/2100-7351_3-5659252.html?tag=nefd.top

Another great SQL CLR Integration article

Published Fri, Apr 15 2005 21:12 | GregLow

There's been another great article posted on the MSDN site regarding how SQL CLR integration works and decisions about when to use it: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/using/columns/realworld/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnreal/html/realworld03112005...

In Process Provider Changes for SQL CLR & ADO

Published Wed, Apr 13 2005 12:38 | GregLow

If you have been to any of the SQL CLR-related sessions I've been running around the country or it's of interest to you, run don't walk over to look at Pablo Castro's great new (detailed) MSDN article on the changes related to the in-proc provider. Details...

The Future Of ASP.NET

Published Tue, Apr 12 2005 7:57 | GregLow

I've noted Darren 's posts on ASP.NET v2 lately and it's got me thinking. ASP.NET was a major step up from ASP and ASP.NET v2 is another great step up. For what it's designed to do, it's really really good. BUT, I'm wondering what you all think the future...

Infopath Viewer

Published Mon, Apr 11 2005 22:06 | GregLow

When I was travelling around at the beginning of last year with Smart Client sessions, a common request was for an InfoPath viewer (ie: allow completing InfoPath documents without the need for InfoPath). At the time there wasn't one. Others may have appeared...

Sad answer on default instances

Published Sat, Apr 9 2005 13:07 | GregLow

Paul Vick has finally posted back about default form instances coming your way in VB.NET http://www.panopticoncentral.net/archive/2005/04/08/8279.aspx Amongst the piles of wonderful new features in VS & VB.NET 2005, this is the most disliked new feature...

SQL Server Migration Assistant

Published Fri, Apr 8 2005 14:37 | GregLow

It appears Microsoft have purchased DB Best ( http://dbbest.com ). Details are at: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/migration/ Looks pretty obvious what it's targeted at if you read the FAQ: "SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) defines and automates all...

SQL Server Webcasts in April

Published Wed, Apr 6 2005 23:33 | GregLow

Hi Folks, there are a great series of SQL Server webcasts during April. http:///www.microsoft.com/events/series/msdnsqlserver2005.mspx I'm also doing one in May that covers the material I'll be presenting at PASS in Munich next month.

More support for VB6 users and migration

Published Wed, Apr 6 2005 10:47 | GregLow

Just in from Jay Roxe (VB product manager) today: “Today, I'm happy to announce the launch of VBRun: The Visual Basic 6.0 Resource Center at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbrun . VBRun is a subsite of the VB Developer Center that exposes some of our...

T-SQL Coding Standards

Published Mon, Apr 4 2005 18:39 | GregLow

Hi Folks, Just posted this to our local SQL Down Under mailing list. If anyone not on the list wishes to contribute, that would be appreciated. Coding standards usually bring strong opinions. We're keen to really thrash out current best practices. Thanks...