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Beta 2 Hell

Published Thu, Jun 9 2005 20:58 | William

Ok, God decided to prove he's got a great sense of humor. He let me get the Beta 2 bits installed. But, after VS Starts up, I see the splash screen, and it just goes away. Just disappears. Nothing in the event log, nothing. Now, this happened on two different...

Filed under: Visual Studio .NET 2005

Sql Server 2005 - Biztalk 2006 will be here soon....

Published Tue, Jun 7 2005 10:38 | William

Greetings, It is official - the countdown to launch has begun! During my Tech.Ed keynote this morning, I announced that SQL Server(TM) 2005, Visual Studio ® 2005 and BizTalk ® Server 2006 will launch the week of November 7. This will be the...

Filed under: News, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005

Musings over code camp

Published Sun, May 1 2005 21:33 | William

The idea for Code Camps is really cool. Basically, you have a bunch of developers meet at a Microsoft office and have other developers do in depth code presentations. I had two presentations at the Charlotte code camp which sort of sucked b/c I missed...

Filed under: .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005

System.Transactions/TransactionScope in ADO.NET 2.0 B2

Published Thu, Apr 28 2005 14:24 | William

Even though he's a real jerk when it comes to hooking a brotha up with a Cobra, Sahil is the man and this post in particular kicks a33. Especially the example content ;-)

Filed under: Data Access, Visual Studio .NET 2005

Propert Grid in the 2.0 Framework

Published Fri, Apr 22 2005 22:07 | William

Like a whole lot of other things in the 2.0 Framework, stuff that used to be a pain in the a55 got a whole lot simpler. Using the PropertyGrid control is probably on of the easiest of them. Basically, if you want to provide a clean and easy way for people...

Filed under: Visual Studio .NET 2005

Structured Exceptions in ADO.NET 2.0/Yukon

Published Thu, Apr 21 2005 1:47 | William

Well, tonight I just pretty much finished up the first chapter of one of the two books I'm working on . Anyway, one of the Chapters I'm wriitng is on the T-SQL Enhancements and I got to wondering. How are Exceptions that you raise in T-SQL handled from...

Filed under: Data Access, Visual Studio .NET 2005

What's wrong with this Transaction?

Published Fri, Apr 15 2005 18:55 | William

I've seen this come up in newsgroups quite a bit and figured that although it's not exactly hot news, it's worth mentioning. Let's say that you have a DataSet and you want your updates to work transactionally [meaining that they all succeed or fail together...

Filed under: Data Access, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques

C# and VB.NET playing nice in the ASP.NET 2.0 Playground

Published Wed, Mar 30 2005 20:11 | William

I've been finding so much cool sh1t in the newest build of Whidbey that it's hard to keep up. It's really amazing how, when you actually have to build something professionally, you come across so much more than you ever would just tinkering through it...

Filed under: .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques

System.Web.Compilation

Published Tue, Mar 29 2005 22:10 | William

I'm probably late to the show on this feature too, but I just stumbled across the System.Web.Compilation library. The ClientBuildManager has like the simplest API I think I've come across - could this be any easier? private void button1_Click( object...

Filed under: Visual Studio .NET 2005

Typed DataSet Enhancements in ADO.NET 2.0

Published Tue, Mar 29 2005 17:24 | William

One other really nice thing about the 2.0 Framework is the enhancements with DataSets. Going to the designer, you can actually drag out a DataTable object and then add columns to it. I know this seems like a total “Duhh” feature, but previously...

Filed under: Data Access, Visual Studio .NET 2005

Assertion Giddyness

Published Tue, Mar 29 2005 15:53 | William

I know I already talked about this and I babble about assertions all the time, but I keep having my Assertions fail exactl where they should in my ASP.NET 2.0 app, and it is just too cool! That I know of, there's nothing that even comes close to Assertions...

Filed under: Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques

The Utter Coolness of Sql Mobile

Published Tue, Mar 29 2005 15:44 | William

I've been writing for a while about this Proof of Concept I've been doing at work and today, I just finished a major milestone. The only thing left to do now is Ink Enable the thing and actually, that's the easy part. I can't really divulge the code I...

Filed under: Compact Framework, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques

Yukon Induced Insomnia

Published Tue, Mar 29 2005 1:49 | William

Since I bought my http://www.selectcomfort.com - it's hard to really describe the friggin difference. I really can't describe it. About 4 weeks ago I was telling one of my co-workers that I was really lucky we have such flexible schedules b/c if I actually...

Filed under: Data Access, Visual Studio .NET 2005

Assertion Coolness in ASP.NET 2.0

Published Mon, Mar 28 2005 12:11 | William

As I mentioned in a few other posts, I'm currently working on this app that's going to run w/ SQL Mobile on a Tablet PC as well as a Web equivalent. The big challenge of the Proof of Concept is that the same code will run on a Tablet PC/Web App/Desktop...

Filed under: .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005

"The Documentation Cache is still being constructed..."

Published Fri, Mar 25 2005 11:37 | William

As much as I love working in Whidbey, it's still beta ergo there are still a lot of little things that need some tweaking. I was having some ComboBox weirdness happening when I tried doing ComboBoxName.Items.Add(Object). Here's what intellisense showed...

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Configuration Enhancements in Visual Studio .NET 2005

Published Fri, Mar 18 2005 23:54 | William

When I first started working at http://www.tibasolutions.com , I quickly realized that we were doing quite a few things that I had never come across before. Our typical projects are usually mid to large size enterprise applications brimming with cusomtizations...

Filed under: Visual Studio .NET 2005

SqlCeResultSet Teaser

Published Thu, Mar 10 2005 16:50 | William

Just in case you were wondering - here's the mimnimum you need to get it running on the desktop --- SqlCeCommand cmd = new SqlCeCommand ("SELECT * FROM Offenders", this .Connection); if ( this .Connection.State != ConnectionState .Open) { this .Connection...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Visual Studio .NET 2005

SqlMobile on Full Framework

Published Thu, Mar 10 2005 16:40 | William

In case you were wondering, yes it does work. No, at present you don't need a Tablet PC to run it. There's been a myth that I've heard that it would run on Tablet 2005 but not any other OS other than of course , CF Stuff. Ok, that's already been proven...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Visual Studio .NET 2005

Go To Definition in Whidbey - Someone at Microsoft Deserves a RAISE!

Published Tue, Mar 1 2005 9:29 | William

I was sitting here screwing around with the new build of Whidbey and saw this really interesting event in the SqlCommand class - StatementCompleted. At a bare minimum, I'm hereby owe Angel, Pablo, David and Sushil a beer next time I see them - this little...

Filed under: Visual Studio .NET 2005

Installing the December CTP Release of Visual Studio Team System

Published Wed, Feb 23 2005 20:11 | William

hot off of the press!

Filed under: Visual Studio .NET 2005