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Here are some videos of the PDC sessions related to my project. The first one, specifically, is devoted to my immediate team’s work. SQL Server Modeling (nee “Oslo”) Microsoft Project Code Name “M”: The Data and Modeling Language Building Data-Driven
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The latest CTP from my team is now public on the web! Here are a few of the “M” language updates you’ll find in these bits: The ability to reference labeled entity instances in expressions and across compilation episodes. Entities and collections now
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Members of my group have been hard at work getting a new MSDN Data DevCenter up and running at http://msdn.com/data . This is a merger of a few other DevCenters to provide a unified look at developing with Microsoft’s data platform. Keep your eyes open
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I have a scheduled task and I’d like to save logs from the output. After some quick batch file work, I came up with this. @echo off setlocal for /f "tokens=2" %%A in ('date /t') DO @(set MyDate=%%A) set MyDate=%MyDate:/=-% set MyTime=%TIME::=-%
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Ever wondered where those pinned shortcuts are stored in Win7? %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar
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I recently had a stress test bug assigned to me that I couldn’t repro on my machine with 6GB of memory. I could have opened the box and physically pulled out a couple sticks, but what fun is that? You can actually restrict the amount of RAM right from
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The May 2009 "Oslo" CTP is available on the Oslo Developer Center ! Shawn Wildermuth has done a nice job of summarizing the changes to the M language since the January CTP. Also check out Jeff Pinkston's (aka "Pinky") blog for some existing posts on the
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I’ve recently been doing a lot of work around signed and unsigned assemblies. Someone passed along this great command to me which will recursively check whether or not each assembly at and below the current directory is signed. for /r %i in (*.exe *.dll)
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This article by Dan Vanderboom is one of the best pieces of writing I’ve seen to explain why Oslo is important. Here are a few quotes, but you should take the time to read the whole thing . Oslo respects this need for choice by offering support for building
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A recent program contest at work challenged us to find as many Pythagorean triples as we could that contained at minimum of one prime. We had about a month to work on it. The first question was whether to write up a quick brute force attempt or to take
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Chris Sells is a PM on our team and spent quite a while talking to Carl Franklin on episode #401 of .NET Rocks. It's a great simple (geeky) English explanation of what we're doing. http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=401
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In an introductory programming class, I had a professor who explained CPU cache as sitting in a library and having the book in front of you. RAM was like going to a bookshelf. And hitting the hard drive was like ordering it from a store and waiting for
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Microsoft "Oslo" Resources " Oslo" Developer Center Download the "Oslo" SDK Ask a Question About "Oslo " Report an Oslo Bug A Lap Around "Oslo" (PDC video) "Oslo" - The Language (PDC video) "Oslo": Customizing and Extending the Visual Design Experience
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From www.modelsremixed.com ...
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Now that PDC is in full swing, the Oslo Developer Center has been published. It contains a lot of great information about the whole Oslo platform - the Repository, the M modeling language, and Quadrant. Quadrant is the specific piece that I work on so
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