In the title of this post I am actually quoting email I have received on the topic, mail similar to others I have been sent many times ever since I started posting about case issues over the last few months. And that is one of the tamer ones I have received...

It's Thursday, and the Class Designer team is sticking to their new entry every Thursday policy. I don't want to just post a link to their blog every week, but if they keep doing stuff this cool I'll have no choice. Eugene Chigirinskiy could have just...

Did you just download and tried installing the Feb CTP build? Did setup complain that it found existing incompatible components? Along with your dowload package is a tool on the CD that will scan your machine and allow you to remove previous versions...

I'll do a more traditional first post next time. I'm opening up this blog for feedback though since OE is getting some attention in other blogs and I don't think anyone else on our team is actively blogging about work. Any requests?

In a previous post , I described the basic routing architecture of Service Broker. What I did not describe was a special facility that allows you to exploit external mechanisms for finding routes. For example, an enterprise may use Active Directory or...

I got a chance to see BradA give his talk at TriNUG Wednesday night, and in honor of that (specifically, the part where he explains why an API may do a disservice to its consumers if it needs an argument to be non-null and just lets null refs happen instead...

With the release of Feb CTP, one of the known issues that's in this release is that setup might fail with a message that the server could not connect to the database. It's listed in the known issues section of the CTP notes, but here is the error and...

Are you wondering what the team is up to right now? Well, along with many other teams in the Developer Division, we are feverishly working to bring you our next Beta. We've been in what we call "Ask Mode" for four weeks now and have only taken around...

Since studying project management in the latter part of my undergraduate work, as you may have noted in the Project Management Reality entry, I've tried to keep up to speed on the various professional efforts to create systems for managing software development...

Last week I posted a sample script that would save state a virtual machine, make a copy of it, and restore it (details here: http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2005/02/25/380216.aspx ). While this is an effective solution - it can result in...

As you probably have heard by now, we not only have released a new SQL Server edition called Workgroup that is quite a bargain given the included functionality, but now have also released the February CTP for SQL Server 2005 . Tom lists many of the cool...

I have been asked more than once if SQL Server Express has the Service Broker feature and if there are any limitations on the use. SQL Server 2005 Express Edition is a version of SQL Server 2005 that is available for free (strategically being released...