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February 2005 - Posts

DataSet feature requests

We have begun the initial planning for the next version of the DataSet (post VS 2005). If you have a feature you would like to see, let me know. I can also pass on feature requests for other components in System.Xml and ADO.net to the proper folks. Read More...
Posted Monday, February 28, 2005 1:27 PM by aconrad | 21 Comments
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The Next Karate Kid

Maybe this movie was better then first thought? With two time oscar winner Hillary Swank + I am sure Pat Morita is right on the cusp of something big. It seems like with the big oscar win for Eastwood with Million Dollar Baby – that he should have to Read More...
Posted Monday, February 28, 2005 1:23 PM by aconrad | 0 Comments
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Everybody's favorite topic - NULL

In V1 of .net, value types could not be null. Since, this was contradictory to relational databases use of null, the DataSet needed to have a concept of nullable value types – hence DBNull was invented. DBNull is simple type in the System namespace. It Read More...
Posted Monday, February 28, 2005 1:18 PM by aconrad | 3 Comments
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Dataset performance improvements in frameworks V2

System.Data.DataSet contains some very significant performance improvements over prior versions – particularly for large result set scenarios. In particular, Highly efficient Binary Remoting -- For large Dataset, orders of magnitude better than v1.x Row Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 16, 2005 1:30 PM by aconrad | 6 Comments
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The wrong Farrell to play Sonny Crockett.

When I first saw the headline , I mistakenly thought the fine actor Will Ferrell had been hired to play Crockett. I wonder if the soundtrack is going to have any Phil Collins or Glen Frey songs… somehow I doubt it. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 16, 2005 9:58 AM by aconrad | 2 Comments
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Maverick support.

One of the (not so intentional) assumptions built into the mapping schema technologies of SqlXml is that the hierarchy of the target Xml roughly matched the PK/ FK relationships on the underlying relation source. In other words, elements are mapped to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 15, 2005 5:48 PM by aconrad | 0 Comments

Xml team speaks on SOAP versus REST debate

Some interesting comments from my old team. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 15, 2005 12:40 PM by aconrad | 0 Comments
 
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