July 2004 - Posts

Smart and funny

Published Sat, Jul 31 2004 20:30 | William

People like Chris Tacke have it all. I read his blog regularly and I just realized today what the picture in the upper right hand corner was.

Filed under: Compact Framework

Opennetcf.org releases new Smart Device Framework 1.2 Class Poster

Published Sat, Jul 31 2004 20:27 | William

If you do any CF development - then OpennetCf.org's Smart Device Framework is a must have. Looks like Peter just released a new (and very cool) poster for the 1.2 Smart Device Framework . Just another example of the Amazing work they do over there!

Filed under: Compact Framework

Data Protector by Hood Canal Mobility

Published Sat, Jul 31 2004 13:47 | William

Looks like Rob managed to put out another killer product for mobile devices

Filed under: Compact Framework

New XML Features in Yukon - they rock

Published Fri, Jul 30 2004 17:07 | William

Well I guess I”m going to show my database nerdness again, but I just read Sushil piece on the XML integration in Yukon. Right now I'm waiting for Yukon Beta to install on my Virtual Machine ( from the looks of stuff - you have to get rid of Everything...

Filed under: Data Access

This is one scary as hell - but it's something you ought to read

Published Wed, Jul 28 2004 23:08 | William

You probably have already heard about it but if not http://www.womenswallstreet.com/WWS/article_landing.aspx?titleid=1&articleid=711

Filed under: News

SQL Server Yukon is Finally here

Published Tue, Jul 27 2004 8:22 | William

This isn't express of a scaled down version, it's the real beta. Read more here . Thanks Angel for the heads up.

Filed under: Data Access

Time to start buggin her

Published Sun, Jul 25 2004 2:43 | William

Kim finally posted the first shell of her site but still hasn't put the real Flash stuff on it yet. I'll admit, much of her original work was inspired by me - Cool Flash Effects implemented via Beavis and Buttheadesque humor. One of my favorites is my...

Filed under: News

Submitting articles to MSDN's Knowledgebase

Published Sun, Jul 25 2004 2:35 | William

I'm long overdue on taking Microsoft up on their really cool offer to let MVP's submit articles to the knowledgebase directly. I had tried to submit a few things to MSDN magazine before but I was always late on the subject matter - but as far as the KB...

Filed under: News

Angel discusses ADO.NET 2.0's UDT

Published Sat, Jul 24 2004 9:00 | William

A discussion of one of the many cool new Features in ADO.NET 2.0 - UDT's .

Filed under: Data Access

The Lovely and charming Kim starting Flash Development

Published Fri, Jul 23 2004 2:01 | William

Not sure if I wrote about this before but I figured you might find it interesting. My sexy and charming girlfriend Kim and I met a few years ago when we were both working just South of http://www.smithdata.net . I was a programmer and she supervised all...

Filed under: News

Some Cool Upcoming Web Casts

Published Mon, Jul 19 2004 16:09 | William

Prepare for Whidbey Today with the Smart Device Framework , by Chris Tacke, MVP and Neil Cowburn, MVP of www.opennetcf.org @ July 28, 11:00 AM Data Access Techniques for Mobile Devices , by William Ryan, MVP of www.devbuzz.com August 11, 2004 - 11:00...

Filed under: Compact Framework

Thank You Cautic Phil - Funnier than ever

Published Mon, Jul 19 2004 11:12 | William

http://caustictech.typepad.com/caustictech/

Filed under: Humor

Taking off the training wheels

Published Thu, Jul 15 2004 20:21 | William

A while back I wrote about the potential for misuse of some of the new objects in ADO.NET 2.0. SqlResultsets seemed like the most Dangerous of the bunch. There are still too many people using unparameterized dynamic sql, using SA with no password and...

Filed under: Data Access

Soma on the differences between Express and Full edition

Published Thu, Jul 15 2004 12:11 | William

But he forgot to mention which language is better? http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2004/07/14/183566.aspx

Filed under: News

Screw it - it's VC++ for me

Published Wed, Jul 14 2004 21:57 | William

From now on, no more C# or VB.NET for me, I can't take the arguments. I'm writing in managed C++

VB.NET vs. C# - Someone stop this madness

Published Wed, Jul 14 2004 21:24 | William

About two months ago I was invited to take part in the beta for this product and I had a lot of trouble with the aforementioned marketing page - factually it's incorrect although I probably agree with it to some small degree. I was actually going to blog...

Filed under: News

SQL Server Reporting Services SPI Available now

Published Wed, Jul 14 2004 11:54 | William

Thanks to Krista for this link

Filed under: Data Access

Blashpemy!

Published Wed, Jul 14 2004 8:57 | William

Thanks to Scott for sending me this link . Who does Jim think he is, blaspheming the coolest gadget to come out in a long long time.

Just posted some new Pics of the Creative Zen Portable Media Center

Published Wed, Jul 14 2004 1:39 | William

I have a little better camera this time - so take a look if you're interested.

Filed under: News

A few misc tricks with ADO.NET 2.0

Published Wed, Jul 14 2004 0:43 | William

I also have this posted at http://www.knowdotnet.com/articles/miscadonet.html (with a lot better formatting ;-)) Eariler tonight I started playing with some more ADO.NET 2.0 code and just started mixing it up. It appears the ASP.NET 2.0 team has done...

Filed under: Data Access