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In SQL Server 2005/Yukon you can create user defined types using managed code. User defined types can be used in declaring variable and table columns. It is generally considered to only make sense for scalar types - things that can be sorted, compared,
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I got a question today about a problematic assembly references during a build of a large project. Visual Studio projects have a user file (*.csproj,user, *.vbproj.user) that stores a “References Path”. You can edit this list of paths in your
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As part of the continuing MSDN User Group Tour, I'll be speaking at the Canadian Technology Triangle .NET User Group in Waterloo on Thursday October 7th (tomorrow night). There is a new location for the meeting at Agfa (formerly Mitra) in Waterloo. All
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I'm doing a talk at the East of GTA .NET users group tonight in Oshawa. This is the same MSDN User Group tour event sweeping across Canada. I'll be talking about some of the limitations of the Compact Framework and SqlCE. Should be fun - hope to see you
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I love hanging out with new VS.NET developers. It's enlightening to hear the troubles the face and their new found energy to solve them. I have to blog more about these - but in general, there are often things that I do out of habit in the IDE or things
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There is a new critical security vulnerability that affects a wide range of software that can't be easily patched through Windows Update. The vulnerability lies inside of GDI+ and can allow a maliciously formed JPEG image file to create a buffer overrun
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Yes, it's the longest title of all VS Live Orlando presentations! It's a big topic and it deserves a big name. I'm heading out Monday night to hurricane country to deliver this talk on Tuesday morning. I like this topic because when you get into it, it's
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We now have a course available for BizTalk 2004 in our Toronto office. I get so many of these requests about BTS2K4 these days. Matt Meleski , who is our BTS guru is teaching the first one on July 5th . Matt's been using BTS 2004 right throughout the
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James Newkirk shows how to write a white-box test in Whidbey He shows how to test the value in a private field and invoke a private method. While you can (not so) easily do that today in NUnit, he demonstrates the PrivateObject class that lets you easily
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Myself and Adam Gallant delivered an MSDN Deep Dive last week about developing Smart Client applications. I covered the overview & secure data access sections. The samples and IssueVision (1.0 C# & VB) along with the slides are available over
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No need to have a TechEd commnet password. You can download ALL the pdf's for the plethora of topics. Some good stuff to see how the newly announced stuff (Team System, etc.) works. Business Productivity Solutions (Office) Data Management (SQL Server)
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It's official. I'll post more thoughts and analysis about this as time permits, but, things you should know. Microsoft now has a new Team version of Visual Studio to be delivered “Next Year“ according to Balmer. new source control - more details
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This BOF went pretty well and a huge thanks to Jim Newkirk for assisting in the delivery. He's a real authority on the practices around NUnit and a good guy to have a round. If you buy his new book on Test Driven Development with Microsoft .NET onsite
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Highlights in this exchange of newsgroup posts... Paging is cut Server cursors cut (SqlResultSet class) Async Open is cut, but not excute SqlDataTable class cut (Good - that was a bad design pattern to propogate) Command sets are cut, but you can still
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http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=377077 Things I like: Assert.AreEquals support to compare arrays of the same length, type and values. You can now put a Category attribute on your fixtures AND methods....and then use that as a filter when
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