Well, look no further. Not sure if this is the only conversion available, but here is one link that does the job: http://jonas.lagerblad.com/blog/?p=4 Of course, keep checking http://ndoc.sourceforge.net/ for the “official” release…

In case you haven’t seen it, MSDN magazine published an article listing ten “Visual Studio Add-Ins Every Developer Should Download Now”. Make sure to check it out at http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/12/VisualStudioAddins/default.aspx .

Curious about what Microsoft is up to after the Vista release this year? Here is what I got from a wiki source at (parts removed for brevity): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Server_%22Longhorn%22 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_%22Vienna...

BitLocker™ Drive Encryption (BDE) provides stronger security on Windows Vista Systems even when the system is in unauthorized hands or is running a different or exploiting OS. BitLocker™ Drive Encryption ensures boot integrity by protecting the system...

(long, but, hopefully, worth your while) In my (non-authoritative) opinion, it’s not because webservices is your only or necessarily the best upgrade path, but it’s because webservices don’t allow you (for the most part) do things that will not have...

Remember the promise of OLEDB? Regardless of where the data is stored – relational database, exchange, text file, etc – OLEDB can retrieve it using familiar, SQL like syntax… Well, LINQ is the new technology that can query into any type of data – objects...

Did you know that SQL 2005 now has new snapshot isolation level? Snapshot isolation is a row level versioning mechanism. For example, in SQL 2000, if a transaction changes a row, another transaction cannot read the row until the write commits, thus...

Ok, so we all know by now that RSS (Real Simple Syndication) is a great way to push the web content to your personalized portal. Some of you might even be reading this posting via an RSS feed. If you’re not using RSS yet, you might want to check out the...

If you haven’t yet, make sure to check out the new administration tool which allows you to view and change: 1. Security settings • Authentication type • Configure role based authorization 2. Application settings – yes, finally there is a tool to help...

Vista is well known for the new graphical user interface and other cool easy to demo features. But what about the key technology that makes the web sites run on the Microsoft platform. What improvements will IIS 7 bring? Well, in short, IIS 7’s architecture...

I was going to write a post on the different ways to execute code asynchronously in .NET, the pros and cons. You know, BeginInvoke, QueueUserWorkItem, the new BackgroundWorker class, the direct thread creation… Before doing that, I wanted to check out...

I came across this article a couple of days ago. You can see the full text at http://www.sommarskog.se/dynamic_sql.html , but the summary is below. Enjoy! Dynamic SQL is a very powerful feature that allows you to construct and execute T-SQL statement...

With proliferation of speech recognition and speech synthesis, you’d expect e-mail, voice mail and fax, and, of course, anti-virus and anti-spam technologies to be part of the next version. But E12 is much more than that! Here are just some of the...

Unquestionably, ViewState was one of the most valuable things that came with .NET. The problem was that using ViewState to store large amounts of page data caused many performance problems due to round tripping large amounts of html data between client...

Did you know that if you type prop and press Tab key two times, VS will create a property definition for you as follows: private int myVar ; public int MyProperty { get { return myVar; } set { myVar = value; } } The int, myVar and MyProperty will be...

Check this out -- http://news.com.com/1606-2_3-6018907.html . It’s certainly worth the 5 minutes of your time. Special thanks for Parsa Rohani who brought this to my attention.

Many of you already know that you can expose your data as a web service natively in SQL 2005. No IIS. There are plenty of great articles that talk about it; one of them is at http://www.developer.com/db/article.php/3390241 . There are a few articles...

As many of you know, SQL 2005 now has a common table expression (CTE) WITH. You can think of it as a temporary (non-persistent) view defined within the scope of an executing statement (see SQL help topic ms-help://MS.SQLCC.v9/MS.SQLSVR.v9.en/tsqlref9...

Want to get Microsoft Word like spell checker in Visual Studio? Then check out Visual Assist X -- http://www.wholetomato.com/ . The tool also offers other features like suggestions and acronyms, color-coded Intellisense, and enhanced syntax coloring…...

An internal type or internal member in an assembly can now be accessed from another assembly. Yes, you heard right. There is a new assembly level attribute that allows you to give one assembly access to another assembly's internal types and members –...

Kimberly Tripp, President of Founder of SQLSkills.com, uses the following “rule-of-thumb”: Use temp tables when: • The object is used over a longer period of time • You will create non-key indexes on it to improve performance • You want the ease of...