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BIG Tablets – are they still tablets?

Tablet

Loren Heiny points to Gateways newest 14″ widescreen TabletPC which apparently weighs in at over 6 pounds.

Loren says I’m not so sure what I’ll think of the wider and heavier Tablet design, which suggests to me more that it’s a “notebook” than a “Tablet.”

Loren, it’s still a Tablet, maybe just not so “mobile”. Tablet does not mean mobile, just that you can write on it, right?

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RTFM – DebuggerBrowsableAttribute

dotNET

A reminder to myself since I kind of missed the note in the VS2005 Documentation that says:

The DebuggerBrowsableAttribute is not supported by Visual Basic in the .NET Framework 2.0

Scott Nonnenberg was kind enough not to point out my mental block.

I somehow looked over it a number of times when looking for a clue about the problem I was having.



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My travel schedule through the end of the year

Just Rambling

I just wrote down my travel schedule through the end of 2006 all in one place and nearly passed out when I realized what I have done! I thought I would put it here as a reminder to myself.

9/12 – 9/17 – Fly all the way across the country for PDC

9/19 – present at VTdotNET on what I saw at PDC

9/24 – 9/25 – present FOUR talks at Code Camp (stil have to start that Virtual Earth talk 😉 )

10/4 – 6 – travel to Syracuse for a quick visit with my parents and speak at CNYDevelopers.NET

10/21 – 10/27 – travel to South Africa to give 3 talks at TechEd

11/5 – 11/10 – back across the country to Las Vegas for DevConnections

11/10 – 11/15 – a little vacation with my ol’ man

12/5 – 12/7 – (not firm) potentially travelling to Virginia for my first INETA gig and to visit my brother and his family

And to all of you wondering why I am not flying to Seattle for the MVP summit at the end of September, perhaps now you understand why! 🙂

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What time are the PDC BOFs at?

Ineta

Here are the timeslots allocated by the PDC organizers for the BOFs.

Monday (pre-con day)
7:00, 8:15, 9:30

Tuesday
9:00pm
10:15 pm  (Tablet PC Developer BOF is here)

Thursday
9:00pm  (Going Solo BOF is here)
10:15pm

Stuart Celarier, who is leading up the INETA charge to coordinate all of the BOFs reports that there are 7 rooms during each session and the BOFs really filled up!



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Snuck this one right by me! File.ReadAllText,File.ReadAllBytes,File.ReadAllLines in 2.0

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I noticed in the past few days that these two have been expanded upon in the past months and have been replaced with three pairs of methods, Read/WriteAllText, Read/WriteAllLines and Read/WriteAllBinary.

These are really great – relatively small in the scope of all that is new in VS2005 but SO very useful and not to be missed! [read more…]

[A DevLife post]

 

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Post Beta2 changes for Query Notifications

ADO.NET 2

In my What’s new in ADO.NET 2.0 talk, I have one slide and three quick demos on Query Notifications. For DevConnections, I am doing a whole talk on the topic. I was a little worried about filling up an entire session on the topic, but I have learned so much about Query Notifications, caching and SQL Server Service Broker, that I could go on and on about it.

For anyone who has started working with this fantastic new result of collaboration between ADO.NET and SQL Server developers at Microsoft, there are some post-Beta2 changes you should be aware of.

Most importantly, it will, indeed, be possible to use query notifications (easily) when running as a non-admin. Phew!

Also, the plumbing has changed. Through Beta2, notifications come back through either TCPIP or HTTP. This was creating the permission issues above. Now It will be necessary when using SqlDependency or SQLCacheDependency, to do an application wide SqlDependency.Start, which will open up a SQL Connection for the notifications to come through.

Currently there are some settings that need to be tweaked which we haven’t figured out yet so I wouldn’t bother trying to use this post Beta2 anyway. After many many (many) hours of experimenting, I am determined that there is some setting in SQL Server that we are missing. (And I don’t mean enabling service broker on the database). The experimenting pays off with a deeper understanding of how things work.

As soon as I find out the magic combo of settings, I will be sure as ___ 😉 to post them here!

Update: My old friend CompatibilityLevel had come back to bite me in the rear end – and hard. I was using the pubs database. Steve Smith was having the same problem and using the Northwind database. I was using a new install and therefore not inheriting my pubs db where I had changed the setting for pubs to 90. I thought the issue was gone, but it wasn’t.

So, though this deserves it’s own blog post – remember you can check and set the compatibility level. You need 90 for working with Notification Query. I wonder if Service Broker has the same requirement.

sp_dbcmptlevel yourdatabasename

will tell you what the level is.

sp_dbcmptlevel yourdatabasename,90

will set it to 90.

Thanks to Sushil Chordia and Leonid Tsybert at Microsoft for their help with this!!

 

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