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I have no problem with the opinion that Steve Gillmor shares both in his original eWeek article or in his subsequent comments in Drew's blog on the topic . Specifically, I appreciate his willingness to stand behind his views. To quote Mr. Gillmor, “As
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Along with Sam Gentile and Drew Marsh (and others, I'm sure), I had a chance to read the eWeek opinion piece Can Microsoft's 'Longhorn' Pull it Off? . Is this article an accurate representation of the facts that surround Longhorn? Not even close. Does
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This might seem a little on the simplistic side, but given the difficulty that I had finding this information, I'm posting it in the hope that it helps others. I have created an HTTP Module whose job it is to raise EIF (Enterprise Instrumentation Framework)
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If you're locked in a battle with a DBA over the 'benefits' of using stored procedures, check out this blog entry by Frans Bouma. Cogent argument in favor of dynamic SQL combined with the passion of his beliefs. Quite interesting reading, even if it goes
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For all of you fans out there, I will be giving a presentation on the Enterprise Instrumentation Framework at 6:30 on November 26. If you're interesting in reading the abstract or registering for it, visit the CTTDNUG web site.
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I had the distinct pleasure of trying to incorporate a non-COM compliant DLL into a web service yesterday. Along with the issues associated with marshalling parameters (and which I'll mention in a separate blog entry), I also had to get the web service
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I had a chance to travel to Calgary earlier this week to speak at the Microsoft Bigger Better Basic conference. One of the session I was scheduled for including a number of demos on the Smart Client technology. So I'm sitting on the plane running through
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Today's tidbit revolves around enabling the ASP.NET user to generate entries into the event log. In an ideal world (hint, hint Microsoft designers), this would be a relatively straightforward process. Or at least one that didn't require a direct hack
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