Monthly Archives: April 2005

Beta2 SqlDependency

ADO.NET 2

Wally and I have been keen on ensuring that SqlDependency – which was pretty tricky to get working when I was first learning about it- still works. Of course it does! 🙂 I have a handful of SqlDependency demos in my ADO.NET 2.0 talk that worked just great with the Feb CTP bits (after a lot of figgerin’ and head scratchin’). I only happen to have fired one of them up so far with Beta2.

The only change I noticed so far was that the OnChanged event is now called OnChange. (You will get a compile error message that says OnChanged is not a member of SqlClient.)

So other than that, my code that worked in Beta1 Feb CTP Bits remains the same and works charmingly.

In SQL Server 2005 the Service Broker is still not enabled out of the box on databases. So you have to remember to enable it with: ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks SET ENABLE_BROKER

I also noticed something funny but then it went away. In SQL Server Management Studio, my tables first were listed as Contact (Person), Employee (HumanResources), etc. But then after closing it and opening it again, they went back to Person.Contact and HumanResources.Employee. I don’t think I changed anything, so I’m not sure what was up with that but will keep an eye out for it.

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Emails more “dangerous” than pot?

Tools

According to this article based on research commissioned by Hewlett Packard, emails do more damage to our IQ’s than weed!

“The constant interruptions reduce productivity and leave people feeling tired and lethargic, according to a survey carried out by TNS Research and commissioned by Hewlett Packard.”

Watch for new legislation to outlaw email!

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Canadian User Group Competition results in some serious apps!

Community Cheerleading

I am watching the webcast from the Toronto VB User Group’s presentation of Pocket Build, their entry into the Canadian Inter User Group Competition. The task was to improve the quality of a developer’s life. TVBUG came up with an amazing application to alert developers of build issues remotely. Not only does the app blow me away, but the presentation and the depth that they went to is amazing. It is a thoroughly designed and planned application. I just can’t get over that they put togehter such a professional project.

More details and all of the links to the webcasts are here, on Sasha Krsmanovic’s blog. Sorry I forgot this link earlier!!

I haven’t watched the others yet, but apparently they were all very high quality, though everyone agreed that TVBug’s had to be the winner.

Congrats to everyone.



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Malek moves to Istanbul

Community Cheerleading

Malek Kemmou, will no longer be “the guy from Casablanc” among us as he moves to Istanbul tomorrow (as a new Microsoft employee). Yesterday Stephen wrote about some departing shenanigans that I’m sure he strong-armed Malek into 😉 and today Malek gives us a beautiful poem about leaving the city he has grown up in. I look forward to the day that Malek can introduce me to both Casablanca and Istanbul.

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Trying to Ghost a clean machine but….

Tools

I totally repaved my Whidbey test box with the intention of using Norton Ghost to create an image of a completely fresh machine before I install the beta 2 bits on it. The last step of the process is to install Ghost and it gives me the message:

“To run Norton Ghost, you must first install Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1”

There goes my pure and clean machine! I’ll have to install .NET 1.1 and then uninstall it after I make my backup. Darn!

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WSE2.0 and ADO.NET 2.0 at Mid Atlantic Code Camp May 7th

Just Rambling

There were so many awesome submissions (speakers and topics) for the MAD Code Camp that poor Andrew Duthie and the track chairs had a really hard time fitting it all in. I made a bit of a nuisance of myself so that I would be able to present my ADO.NET 2.0 session (in addition to my WSE2.0 talk) which ended up meaning that Geoff Snowman, the local Developer Community Champion, gave up his session so that I could do mine. Thanks Geoff! I sure hope I was doing you a favor though!! 🙂

Also, my talk will be right before another ADO.NET 2 topic by Sahil Malik. He will be drilling into concurrency in ADO.NET 2.0, so that will be a great pair of sessions back to back.

Watch this space to see the session schedule which will be put up soon. The Code Camp is from 9am – 9pm with 4 tracks. It will be awesome. It is at Microsoft’s Reston office. There is still plenty of room for more attendees, so go sign up!!

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