January 2007 - Posts
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,
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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
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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
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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,
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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™
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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
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