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If you're following the PDC announcements, new, good things are coming for developers and business... MSDN is already showing some topics to get you started. Azure Services Platform . Includes Windows Azure SDK, Live Services SDK, Microsoft .NET Services
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What are some good XML specifications to get acquainted with? Here are the ones I find myself referring people to the most. Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fourth Edition) . Close to a must-read, although XML basics are simple enough that it's often
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Yes, it seems like short instructional videos are all the rage , everywhere . It's been growing for a while, of course. Still, I was happily surprised when I came across http://www.sqlservervideos.com/ today - that's a pretty specialized website! I'm
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A few days ago a friend of mine asked for some books I could recommend about developing databases. This is my personal list based on personal likes – to be extra clear, this is not an endorsement from my employer. An Introduction to Database Systems,
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The other day I was trying to drop a database , but I was getting an error because it was in use. Given that I was the only user of the database, I was a bit puzzled... I had a number of programs running, and I wasn't sure which one might be holding on
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The announcement is right here . ScottGu has a recap of the articles he's posted so far here . For those who fell like they can't wait for the download, the "What's New" page is available on MSDN here . As you can see, there's a lot of developer love
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After my DataView.RowFilter post , the next obvious step is of course a short post on using the DataView.Sort property. This property is simpler, as it simply takes column names, with a possible ASC or DESC modifier. You cannot use expressions directly
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If you are a regular reader of Michael Kaplan (I know I am), you might have run across his What's in a name? (once more) post. He comments on the use of localized account names and points to the KB 157234, How to deal with localized and renamed user and
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Just today I came across this excellent Knowledge Base article: How to transfer data to an Excel workbook by using Visual C# 2005 or Visual C# .NET It discusses a number of methods to get the task done, and seeing them all together in one page is quite
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