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This evening, I presented to the sql server MTUG in Microsoft, Sanyford. Sql Mtug Group Link .
Thanks to all who attended & Niall and Co. for the invitation.
If you have any questions from the event, feel free to email me - acrowley@decaresystems.ie
You can download the presentation here :Microsoft Visual Studio Database Edition 2008 Presentation
Make sure to check out the 2008 Power Tools, Unit Testing and Data Generation !
Hi folks,
Thanks to all who attended the DB Pro presentation last Thursday !
I’ll be writing a number of blogs here to cover-off the topics that I didn’t get to include (only 1 hour slot !) - so watch this space.
In the meantime , I’ve attached the slides from the presentation.
All the best,
Alan
Are we looking at the first generation of legacy .Net applications ?
Recently (i.e. today), I had the task of getting a .NET 1.1 App up and running on an X64 box running Windows server 2003(x64)… and with the deployment came the realisation that we are now heading towards the next generation of software architecture.
That’s not to say that I’m shocked & horrified - it was more of a “ah, it’s that time again…”. Having experienced the torture of working with 16-bit and 32-bit technologies in an application before, I vowed never to work on such a solution again.
Looking ahead, it’s becoming apparent that your .NET 1.1 apps are about to turn into legacy systems - There isn’t a ’.NET 1.1 Framework (x64) Redistributable’… and there won’t be !
Continue reading ‘Windows Server 2003 (X64) & .NET Applications’
Since CTP 5 , I’ve been using DB Pro (Visual Studio for Database Professionals, aka ‘Data Dude’) to manage an R&D micro-project that I have developed over time.
The DB Pro version of Visual Studio is in addition to the architect, developer, tester and project manager versions and fits in nicely into the whole of Team System.
Golden Rule : Project is master, not the Database…
I imagine that the transition into use of DB Pro is much easier for a developer rather than a DB administrator given that the DB Pro project, and not the Database itself is the master version of your database scripts.
By ’scripts’, I do mean every single database object that the database itself contains/ will contain. Every table, SPROC, user, primary key , foreign key, index, etc… is represented in the DB Pro project as a seperate script. Any change to a script can be managed through TFS source control and DB Pro (& TFS Continuous Integration) will ‘Build’ your project and cause the build to fail if some invalid SQL has been written. Indeed, you cannot run-in any invalid SQL into the related database.
So what is DB Pro trying to achieve….Is it biting off more than it can chew ?
Continue reading ‘DB Pro with TFS (Part 1) - Filling the void between developer and DB Admin ?’
TechEd 2006 : ASP.NET 2.0 & Ajax
I entered this session as triggers were being defined for an UpdatePanel using an UpdateProgress AJAX server control…
Just as a quick aside. The project codenamed “Atlas” was released as Beta in it’s new renamed form. So, the new names and logical seperation is as follows :
The latest download is of this is available at : ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Beta 2
Continue reading ‘Developing Rich Web Applications with ASP.NET AJAX’
Well, it’s taken three days but finally, I have found a secluded area where I can take out this laptop/calculator without the fear of ridicule from my peers. Everything from the latest DELL 6400 Duo Core processing machines to Ferrari styled Acer’s are all around me…much more power than this OAP with it’s 256MB Ram which proudly displays that it is Windows 98 compliant…but no, I’ll not mention another word on the subject – Let’s get down to business…
Yes, we have both survived TechEd 2006. I’m sure Stan will blog his own version of events as we have split-up which sessions to attend so as to maximise the benefit of our trip to Barcelona.
Continue reading ‘TechEd 2006 - Overview’
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