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... when the amount of spam you get on your blog stops bothering you. Hopefully the new winter look will get me inspired to write some more. Happy Thanksgiving - best wishes whether you celebrate it or not!
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Fabian Winternitz is one of our awesome tools developers, and you can see some of his work in this post . That's a Visual Studio extension that will display searchable diagrams for the model exposed by any service endpoint that exposes OData metadata.
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Over at the team blog, you can find this post about ADO.NET Data Services changing its name to WCF Data Services in the .NET Framework 4 time frame. This is goodness by every account - over time, this just means a more integrated experience when developing
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Very, very cute of showing off some new Windows love - it even fits my attention span. http://www.microsoft.com/en/us/default.aspx Don't know if this will still be around a few months from now, so for future reference, these are "7 second demos".
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Yep, the redistributable CAB for MSXML4 SP3 is now available for download. Now you can deploy the latest / greatest version MSXML4 along with your app. http://www.microsoft.com/DOWNLOADS/details.aspx?familyid=7F6C0CB4-7A5E-4790-A7CF-9E139E6819C0&displaylang=en
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In case you haven't seen this yet, the CTP release has been announced at http://blogs.msdn.com/astoriateam/archive/2009/08/31/ado-net-data-services-v1-5-ctp2-now-available-for-download.aspx . Following the philosophy that folks like tables, here you go.
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As mentioned in the SQL Server Support Blog , you may find an issue installing SQL Server 2005 if you install MSXML Core Services 6.0 Service Pack 2 on Windows XP SP2, then upgrade to Windows XP SP3, then try the SQL install. Check out that post for more
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Data, data, data everywhere... Go ahead and click - code samples ahead. http://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability/archive/2009/08/21/a-new-bridge-for-php-developers-to-net-through-rest-php-toolkit-for-ado-net-data-services.aspx Enjoy!
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Just run into this today - very nifty cheat sheet for ADO.NET Data Services. http://www.sadev.co.za/files/Posters/ADO.NET%20Data%20Services%20Cheat%20Sheet.pdf
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Over this past weekend, the XSLT Timer tool has been released on Code Gallery. This is a very simple tool, that will simply allow you to type / paste in a document and an XSLT stylesheet, and then tell you how long it takes on average to do the transform
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There's a fascinating look at Microsoft's history, year-by-year, on Channel 9 . I hadn't looked at these before, but they're relatively short so you can view them whenver you have a break and come back later. Looking forward to more of these. Enjoy!
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I've written about performance tools in the past - it's a topic that interests me quite a bit, because I believe that perceived performance is a very fundamental part of the user experience and can wow you or frustrate you immensely. And I believe "real
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One other twist on the last slicing stylesheet . Let's say that we didn't want to hard-code the number of items in a group, but instead we wanted to be able to control this separately. We can use an xsl:param on the stylesheet to control this externally
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I spent a little bit of time with this the other day, and I thought I'd pass the learnings on, in hopes it helps someone. This is the layout what I was trying to accomplish with WPF. In a section of my window, I wanted a bit of text at the top, and then
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Aaron published an MSDN article on using Velocity that is very much worth checking out. Some of the highlights: Why and how to scale your applications. Deployment and configuration of Velocity. Data analysis and cache design. ASP.NET Session integration.
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