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SQL Server delay does not impact Entity Framework
Abstract from Julie Lerman Blog (Indexed 2008-01-28):
A questioncame up in the EF forums today asking if the delayof SQL Server 2008's release will mean EF will be delayed.The two are not related.There is a misconception that Entity Framework is tied to SQL Server 2008. It's definitelynot. These are .NET APIs and will work with many database providers (whenthose providers are written).As far as I know, the official word on EF's release remains "1st half of 2008". Somethingtells me that won't be any time in January. [Image][Image]
Web Deployment Projects for 2008
Abstract from Steven Smith (Indexed 2008-01-28):
[Image]Web Deployment Projects (WDP) for Visual Studio 2008 were released to the web (RTW) a couple of days ago. These didn't make the November ship date of VS2008, but were promised to follow shortly after release, and as promised, they're here! I haven't looked at the 2008 version yet - personally I use PyroBatchFTP + CC.NET + MSBuild to do my deployments - but I may have a look and reconsider my approach. One thing that would be nice is the configuration merge capabilities offered by WDP. ...(truncated)...
Cleaning the BlackBerry 8820 track ball
Abstract from Jonathan Cogley's Blog (Indexed 2008-01-28):
I love my 8820 ... I have had it for about a year and it replaced my 8700 which I also loved. I was a little skeptical when I first got the 8820 because the beloved thumb wheel was gone and replaced by a track ball in the middle of the phone. But it didn't take long before I was happily scrolling around the screen enjoyed the improved 4-way motion. :) Then one day moving to the left suddenly stopped working. I could move the track ball to the left but it didn't move on screen....(truncated)...
Visual Studio Team System 2008 and TFS 2008 Virtual Images
Abstract from Corporate Coder (Indexed 2008-01-28):
Since I use virtual images of TFS for some of the things I'm doing, thought I'd let you know that these virtual machines are available now on MSDN. The nice about these images is the preinstallation of Visual Studio Team System, and Team Foundation Server. I'd also wish for preinstall of at least the BI studio stuff for SQL Server 2008, but having the other parts already installed is great. Hey, these images are trials. But if you have an MSDN subscription or buy a valid version o...(truncated)...
LINQKit: "C# 3.0 In A Nutshell" Extras
Abstract from Mohamed A. Meligy (Indexed 2008-01-27):
The "C# 3.0 in a nutshell" book has some neat free extras that are worth mentioning for those who haven't already heard of (they have been released for long). Those are like must-have LINQ tools and helpers. The homepage of LINQKit (the major part of the extras I'm going to cover here) provides great information and short code samples about the components: LINQPad This is a snippet compiler (application to run/try small codes in separation than big VS projects, like this), that's cust...(truncated)...
[Off Topic] SPAMMERS sometimes don't know that they are... Some advices
Abstract from Mohamed A. Meligy (Indexed 2008-01-27):
Note: This is ported from my old weblog. Originally published August 28, 2006 In the past to years, and even before, I used to get tons of SPAM of different types from my FRIENDS and members of yahoo groups I'm subscribed to. Of course this used to get me annoyed, and in most cases, the sender didn't know that what s/he is sending is sort of SPAM, so, I used to send individual emails to these friends about it, and I got sick of how many messages I have to send ...(truncated)...
AJAX drag drop Challenge: new with profile support
Abstract from Hannes Preishuber (Indexed 2008-01-27):
I have written a proof of concept blog post about drag and drop with AJAX toolkit. In my second part I will take a look at the possibility's to store the new position. I earlier builds toolkit control supports direct storing in profile. That feature was dropped from toolkit. My goal is to use DragPanelextender and read and write panel position from profile store. So I use a Panel, DragPanelExtender and a Label as dragobject. First we have to register a Event when dragpanel have a new loca...(truncated)...
ASP.NET Menu and SiteMap Security Trimming (plus a trick for when your menu and security don't match up)
Abstract from JonGalloway.ToString() (Indexed 2008-01-27):
Summary ASP.NET 2005 introduced a pretty solid menu which is integrated with a configuration driven sitemap. The cool part is that the menu can be hooked in with your security roles, so you don't have to worry about hiding or showing menu options based on the user - the menu options are automatically kept in sync with what the user is allowed to see. We'll talk about how to set this up, using an example from a website I worked on recently. If you're familiar with ASP.NET sitemaps and menus, skip...(truncated)...
Adding simple trigger-based auditing to your SQL Server database
Abstract from JonGalloway.ToString() (Indexed 2008-01-27):
How do you track changes to data in your database? There are a variety of supported auditing methods for SQL Server, including comprehensive C2 security auditing, but what do you do if you're solving a business rather than a security problem, and you're interested in tracking the following kinds of information: What data has been updated recently Which tables have not been updated recently Who modified the price of Steeleye Stout to $20 / unit, and when did they do it? What was the unit pric...(truncated)...
TheFunded brings more transparency to raising venture capital
Abstract from Loosely Coupled // Tim Marman's Weblog (Indexed 2008-01-27):
Asymmetry of information plays a major role in negotiations, and it is often said that venture capital investments are made under extreme information asymmetry. On one side of the table, the limited partners don't know much about the company, the VCs know a little (relatively speaking), and companies know everything. This is one reason VC investments are made in stages - it serves as an incentive to keep the company on track and a way to minimize the risk. When it comes to funding, though, ...(truncated)...
Facebook opens up with a JavaScript API
Abstract from Loosely Coupled // Tim Marman's Weblog (Indexed 2008-01-27):
Facebook just announced a new JavaScript Client Library that allows you to make Facebook API calls from any web site. In other words, you can start building Facebook applications are live outside of Facebook. I agree with Charlie that this move "makes membership in Facebook that much more valuable", and is probably a direct response to the openness promised by OpenSocial. Duncan calls it a clever move, but if their goal is to truly build the social OS - or what Charlie calls a "social dial tone"...(truncated)...
Taking the Plunge and Rediscovering Passion
Abstract from Loosely Coupled // Tim Marman's Weblog (Indexed 2008-01-27):
In my first few years in college, I took a few gut courses that older friends assured me were easy, requiring only 4 hours of work a week. I did terrible in every one. The reason, of course, was that I hated those 4 hours and avoided the work whenever I could. After a couple of semesters of this, I just started taking courses that interested me. Instead of those random "gut" courses, I took various advanced computer science courses. They were easily three or four times as much work, but my GPA d...(truncated)...
C# Programming Guides in MSDN
Abstract from Shahed Khan (Indexed 2008-01-27):
Inside a C# Program Main() and Command Line Arguments (C# Programming Guide) Types (C# Programming Guide) Arrays (C# Programming Guide) Strings (C# Programming Guide) Statements, Expressions, and Operators (C# Programming Guide) (Anonymous Functions, Lambda Expression, Anonymous Methods) Objects, Classes, and Structs (C# Programming Guide) Properties (C# Programming Guide) Indexers (C# Programming Guide) Delegates (C# Programming Guide) Events (C# Programming Guide) Generics (C# Progr...(truncated)...
OOP 2008
Abstract from Damir Tomicic (Indexed 2008-01-27):
Die OOP ist sehr interessante Konferenz mit einer Vielfalt an spannenden Themen. Weitestgehendhersteller- und technologieagnostisch und mit Themen aus allen Bereichen des SoftwareLebenszyklus. [Image] [Image] [Image] [Image]Bilder SIGSDatacomIn diesem Jahr hatte ich die Gelegenheit mit den meisten OOP-Sprechern ber die Themenderen Vortrge zu diskutieren. Mit Michael Stal ber das Refactoring und Architektur,mit Bernd Oesterreich ber das Agile Projekt Management, mit Jens Coldewey ber dieUrsprnge...(truncated)...
Will the real Micropolis please stand up?
Abstract from Fear and Loathing (Indexed 2008-01-26):
[Image] This morning I stumbled across a project on SourceForge named Micropolis. Of course this got my attention and after realizing there was nothing there (no code, no web pages, nothing) I fired a note off to Don to see what was up? I knew his distaste of SourceForge and there was talk of setting up a Google code repository. Don visited the SourceForge site and left a nice happy-happy-joy-joy note for the to-be-named-at-a-later-date owner: Would the person who started this Micropolis pro...(truncated)...
Research Finds TDD Boosts Developer Productivity
Abstract from ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog (Indexed 2008-01-26):
Thanks to Haacked for posting this one. I haven't yet read it fully, but this IEEE paper shows good results when doing test-first development vs. other methods. "We found that test-first students on average wrote more tests and, in turn, students who wrote more tests tended to be more productive. We also observed that the minimum quality increased linearly with the number of programmer tests, independent of the development strategy employed." "The external validity of the results ...(truncated)...
Get your tech events featured on MSDN UK and TechNet UK!
Abstract from James Crowley (Indexed 2008-01-26):
This announcement is well overdue, but better late than never!After much hard work by the DPE team at Microsoft in the UK - thanks in particular go out to Clare - we've now integrated the Developer Fusion events feed with the Microsoft UK community pages. This means that anyone who submits a Microsoft technology-related event to Developer Fusion will also automatically appear on the MSDN and TechNet community pages too - talk about some great free exposure!Any events on Developer Fusion also get...(truncated)...
Gotcha: "The specified metadata path is not valid." with ADO.NET Entities on Vista x64
Abstract from James Crowley (Indexed 2008-01-26):
For those of you foolhardy enough to be running Vista x64 (myself included!), VS 2008, and the latest build of the ADO.NET Entities framework... you may well hit the following error message:The specified metadata path is not valid. A valid path must be either an existing directory, an existing file with extension '.csdl', '.ssdl', or '.msl', or a URI that identifies an embedded resource. The catch is that apparently the designers are not supported on 64-bit machines. The workaround is to copy tw...(truncated)...
Web Deployment Projects for VS.NET 2008
Abstract from Plip's Weblog (Indexed 2008-01-26):
Deployment is hard, but it doesn't have to be! The guys over in Redmond have released the WDP for VS.NET 2008 release tot he web today. http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2008/01/25/announc...(truncated)... Go check it out. One very interesting point: - "There was community feedback about trying to get aspnet_merge.exe independent of Web Deployment Projects for use within Visual Studio Express editions... Good news is that ASP.NET Merge Utility is now available as a part of Microsoft W...(truncated)...
[New Article] ASP.NET AJAX Best Practices
Abstract from Tanzim Saqib (Indexed 2008-01-26):
While we develop AJAX applications, we often carelessly ignore giving up bad practices, which cause effects which are not so significantly visible when the site is not so large in volume. But, its often severe performance issue when it is the case for sites that make heavy use of AJAX technologies such as Pageflakes, NetVibes etc. There are so many AJAX widgets in one page that little memory leak issues combined may even result the site crash into very nasty Operation aborted. There are a lot o...(truncated)...
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