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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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Tuesday, September 21, 2004 11:10 AM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, ADO.NET, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Tips, Southern Ontario, WinForms, WebForms, Services, Events, Home, Newsletter
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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Sunday, September 12, 2004 3:34 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, VS2003, C#, Tips, WebForms, Services, Security, Events, Home, Newsletter, Architecture
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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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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Wednesday, May 26, 2004 9:38 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: PDC, VS2005, ADO.NET, SQL, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Tips, WinForms, WebForms, Services, Security, Events, Testing, TechEd
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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Monday, May 24, 2004 1:51 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: PDC, VS2005, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Tips, WinForms, WebForms, Security, Events, Testing, TechEd
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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Saturday, May 22, 2004 9:34 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, Vista, ADO.NET, SQL, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Tips, Events, TechEd
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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I'm doing this MSDN webcast in a few weeks 10/05/2004 1:00 PM - 10/05/2004 2:00 PM (EasternTime) In this session we'll cover the world of logging and instrumenting your application. We'll discuss the various .NET framework components as well as higher
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