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I did a presentation this afternoon on some of the basic functions of WCF. I had put a slide deck together using a new Microsoft Office add-in called PPTPlex . You can see demos of what this add-in does in the provided link, but basically is allows for
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I recall my first experience with Word 2007...it took me 20 minute to figure out how to do a Save As. Who would have figured that the cute icon in the top left corner actually had functionality associated with it. :) In a blog post from Chris Sells ,
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The two or three of you who follow my blog with regularity will have noticed that I was dark for most of the summer. The reason was that I was in the process of writing a book. Co-writing, would be more accurate, but still long hours were spent pounding
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I'm just passing along some information that has been making the rounds (I found it on Guy Burstein's blog). If you attempt to install SQL Server 2008 on a machine that has Visual Studio 2008 installed, it will fail. The requirement is to have VS 2008
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The project that I have been working on for a number of months uses the Composite UI Application Block (CAB) as the basis for the user interface. If you have never worked with CAB before, it is an interesting framework. In many ways it makes tasks easy
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Dare Obasanjo had an interesting post yesterday on the Second System Effect in software development. For those who are unaware, the second system effect is a term first coined by Frederick Brooks in The Mythical Man Month . It deals with (in general)
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This post is basically a reminder to a future me. The client I'm working with right now (basically an ISV) is using SQL Express as part of their project. And included in their database are a number of CLR stored procedures. In other words, the stored
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ObjectSharp has been growing quite steadily for the past little while. But winning a couple of recent contracts have begun to strain our seemingly unending supply of high-end talent. For this reason (and to get some fresh blood and ideas into the company),
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I have recently had the opportunity to work ( once again ) with Oracle. Specifically, I had to create a mechanism that would, based on configurable settings, update either a SQL Server or an Oracle database. In and of itself, this is not particularly
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Recently, a question regarding the cost associated with migrating from VB6 to VB.NET was asked by one of our clients. Since that is a question whose answer has a broader appeal than just to the asker, I thought I would replicate my response here. It should
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