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Recently published to the SQL Developer Center on MSDN
Using CLR Integration in SQL Server 2005
Last night I dreamt that I was giving a presentation to people involved in the medical field for something in Visual Studio. Somehow, 45 minutes into the presentation, I still hadn’t gotten started yet. I had forgotten my remote clicker, there were all kinds of technical problems. I walked out of the room and out of the building. but then turned around and came back. Finally, I really started doing my presenation and then my “ghost” program showed up as I had inadvertantly clicked on the icon to start the application. But it wasn’t really like Symantec Ghost. It was a program that displayed transparent images over the desktop that looked like ghosts. I couldn’t figure out how to turn it off, but the attendees wanted me to which took more time. After that, I started up again, but then my computer rebooted itself and there was a message written in ink on the screen that was some kind of “ha ha I just reformatted your drive and installed WindowsXP but nothing else”. So my presentation was gone. Powerpoint was gone. Visual Studio was gone. I didn’t’ have my thumbdrive with my samples on it. I didn’t have a spare hard drive with all of my applications on it. Plus I had two more presenations to do after this one and only like 5 minute breaks in between. So, not only was this presentation a wash, there was no way I would be able to do the others.
Somehow I was back home and whatever virus had created that problem was also on my main development machine and when I restarted the computer, it triggered the same event, wiping out my hard drive. And of course I hadn’t backed up in a week or so.
My husband has nightmares about zombies and things like that. This is my version of a nightmare.
Maybe I should look at this dream and say “well, at least things didn’t go that badly at ASPConnections!” Or maybe I should go take the shrink wrap off of the Ghost application I bought last week and set it up to control my backups on to my external 200GB drive. Maybe I should even get another drive. Maybe I should just pack it in and go pursue an alternate career.
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I am presently doing some intense research on services, service patterns, message exchange patterns and many other issues related to services (No surprise there). However, I can’t do that without external help and since many people are reading my blog, I can just as well start asking around right here:
I would like to get in touch with companies (preferrably insurances and banks) who afford a corporate history department. The ambitious goal I have is to reconstruct a few banking or insurance or purchasing business processes of ca. 1955-1965.
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TabletPC Stuff
Doodle Application: www.thedatafarm.com/doodle.aspx
TabletPC Developer Center http://msdn.microsoft.com/tabletpc
Lora Heiny’s sites (the tablet pc “guru” that Brian Noyes talked about in the chat room)
www.whatisnew.com and www.tabletpcpost.com
ADO.NET 2.0
Angel Saenz-Badillos weblog (ADO.NET Team Member) http://weblogs.asp.net/angelsb/
Watch for article by me in MSDN Mag sometime in the spring.
Web Services Enhancements 2.0
Dev Center, including articles and Hands on Labs http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/building/wse/
www.wsefaq.com
www.dasblonde.net
www.benjaminm.net
www.softwaremaker.net/blog
Watch for article by me on the DevCenter sometime soon
INETA and .NET User Groups
www.ineta.org
(my user group… www.vtdotnet.org)
IMAGINE CUP
www.imaginecup.com
Base Class Libraries in Whidbey
Dev Center: http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/programming/bcl/
BCLTeam Blog: http://weblogs.asp.net/bclteam
Watch this page as I will upload the latest version of my BCL Whidbey deck: http://www.thedatafarm.com/talks.aspx
Watch for article in Code Magazine by me on DebuggerVisualizers!
Upcoming conferences I’ll be speaking at are listed at www.thedatafarm.com/blog (requires actually browsing to my blog)
Thanks Carl & Rory & Geoff. It was a blast!
Since Microsoft says WindowsForms controls only work in IE, I have never tried anything else. I don’t have FireFox on my computer. I did not reply to the recent request from Netscape to beta test their new browser and don’t want an AOL screenname just to do so. Has anyone even tried it? I’d be curious if someone with a tablet and the latest O/S browses to www.thedatafarm.com/doodle.aspx with Firefox or the new beta. Let me know.
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Last night on DotNetRocks we were all over the map and when we were talking about the tablet, I wanted to mention how he XThink Calculator had really helped me think out of the box for tablet applications. But my mind just couldn’t find that name, which was buried deeply under all the other muck in there. So I described the application and I also learned that someone in the chat room kept typing ‘it’s XTHINK!’, but I wasn’t watching the chat room.
I’ve written about othe program before. (almost exactly one year ago!) It’s really cool.
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I’ve read about MARS, thought about MARS and written a little about it what I learned. Now I’m going to divert my attention from WSE for a while and start playing again wtih ADO.NET 2.0. The first thing I’m going to do is take Angel’s MARS FAQ blog post (he’s on the ADO.NET team) and try out some of this stuff with the new bits, especially with transactions. Someone asked me about them, but I hadn’t played with them yet so I didn’t have much to say. 🙁
He also references an article on TechNet about MARS and transactions.
So check out Angel’s post. I know I have to experiment before I can truly understand what’s going on, so I will play with MARS a little more and figure out what you can and can’t do and report back!