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I was working a little bit with SQL Server 2005 today and ran across an unexpected (at least to me) situation. From within the Management Studio, I opened up a table to view the contents. Nothing complicated, although I did modify the default SQL slightly
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One of the problems with keeping one eye on the next version of software is getting too comfortable with the name. I still say Whidbey instead of VS.NET 2005 and it will take me a while yet before that problem goes away. And Microsoft has just added another
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I don’t normally post on what’s going on in my personal life. For the most part, nobody would care. Not to mention that my life just isn’t that interesting. However, having just had our 5 month old chocolate labrador spayed, I found
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While working on a BizTalk mapping for a client, I ran across an unusual problem. When the mapping was tested, an XSL transform error was thrown. Specifically, the error message was: XSL transform error: (0,0) : 'userCSharp:(string(*[local-name()='Times'
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One of the new features of ASP.NET 2.0 is the ability to not only more easily read from config files, but also to update them. If you’re looking for a pretty good description of what’s possible, check out the ASP.NET QuickStart Tutorial .
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While spending my weekend perusing blog and other light bedtime reading. In doing so, I came across an interesting entry by Rocky Lhotka. He discusses the Mort persona and it’s impact on the features found in VB.NET. I agree with his observation
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I took a few moments to dig into a nagging problem this weekend. Seems that whenever I launched the Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt, I received an error message indicating that a file called vcvarsall.bat couldn’t be found. A thorough search of
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