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April 2009 - Posts

Kobe - the Web 2.0 application that wasn't

Microsoft has released Kobe , "a getting started resource kit for planning, architecting, and implementing Web 2.0 applications and services using the Microsoft Platform" and a lot of the response has been quite critical ( Ayende , Karl Seguin ). While
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iiobo C++ ESE library

(I saw a link to this from the Wikipedia entry on esent) A company called iiobo has released a C++ toolkit for using esent (I'm guessing they developed it for internal use). I haven't looked at the code, but their website says that they have: "C++ classes
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Version 1.2 of ManagedEsent available on CodePlex

Version 1.2 of the ManagedEsent interop layer for the ESENT database engine is now available on CodePlex. The three most useful additions here are: JetEscrowUpdate JetIntersectIndexes Helper functions to set/retrieve columns as DateTime JetEscrowUpdate
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Why does JET_coltypBit return 0xFF when set to true?

On our internal mailing list a user asked "When I retrieve a column of type JET_coltypBit that is set to true, why do I get 0xFF and not 0x1"? My co-worker Ketan had to reach deep into his memory for the answer :-) In the very old days, the Jet API was
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