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January 2007 - Posts

Turning the pages with WPF
Wicked cool application at http://www.bl.uk/ . The application allows you look at two notebooks from Leonardo da Vinci (the original stuff!), plus a few other very interesting, precious books. All powered by WPF - note that the application is an .xbap, Read More...
Using System.Diagnostics.Process to look for NGEN'ed images
Just like System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch is fabulously useful for a quick and dirty test that you can use to measure performance while prototyping something, so is System.Diagnostics.Process very useful when you need to make sure that your test is using Read More...
XAML snippet to trigger WPF installation on IE7
This is probably my blog post with the most acronyms in it. In any case, on to the contents. If a user navigation to a .xaml file using Internet Explorer 7 and .NET Framework 3.0 is not installed, then it will offer the user to install it. This is very Read More...
Where did my database go?
After creating a database with a CREATE DATABASE statement without specifying any files, you may wonder where the files went. In a default installation, you will find the database files under a directory such as C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.2\MSSQL\DATA, Read More...
Hot Off the Press - a glimpse to what's ahead
I always find that looking at the Hot Off the Press page on www.microsoft.com/mspress always provides some interesting insights about what's coming. For example, you can see a couple of recently published SQL Server books: Inside Microsoft® SQL Server™ Read More...
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition available now!
You can get to the download and a bunch of information at http://www.microsoft.com/sql/editions/compact/default.mspx . Note that the Choosing Between SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition and SQL Server 2005 Express Edition whitepaper actually has some more Read More...
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