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Good Evening, I sit down to write this blog article on the plane on my way to LA in preparation for tomorrow’s presentation at PDC on the same subject. In my last article I described the ability to leverage the hard work that the SQL Server team put into
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I will be presenting at PDC next week with Ed Katibah and Torsten Grabs on uses of the SQL Server Spatial library (SQLTypes). The session will be on Tuesday at 12:30pm. Title: Building Location Aware Applications with the SQL Server Spatial Library Abstract:
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In my previous blog post I discussed the ability to leverage the SQL Server type library in your own .NET applications. The article showed how to create a simple console application that calculates some areas for different shapes and how to create these
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In SQL Server 2008 we introduced the ability to store spatial objects as columns within a database through the Geometry and Geography types as well as the ability to perform efficient query operations against those columns through the use of a new Spatial
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It has been way too long since I’ve blogged. I have no (good) excuse. I had the opportunity to attend and present at last week’s Tech-Ed conference and had a great time meeting customers and getting feedback and suggestions on SQL server and our developer
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Good Afternoon, I’ve just completed posting the WiE community project to CodePlex. As this is my first CodePlex project I expect that I may have forgotten some steps so please let me know of any issues you experience and I will work to resolve them quickly.
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Just a quick post to let you know that you can now access and download the WiE Powerpoint presentation from the PASS Summit 2008 web site. http://www.softconference.com/pass/sessionDetail.asp?SID=135520 I believe SQLPass will also post the actual recording
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In the previous article we covered using the use of INSERT triggers along with the new Spatial data-type support in SQL Server 2008 to implement “spatial rules” for our location-based service. All that remained was to implement a mechanism to make all
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The Implementation of WiEModelWithLocalCache As we discussed in the previous articles, the data layer for the WiE Mobile Client is made up of “providers” that each implement the IWiEModel interface and work together to implement support for the occasionally
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The Implementation of WiERemoteModelSSDSForMobile The WiERemoteModel expects to store and retrieve data from SQL Server Data Services (SSDS). I won’t include the entire implementation of the WiERemoteModelSSDSForMobile in-line as we plan to eventually
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In the first article in this series I introduced the concept for the WiE Community, a mobile and location aware social networking community. In last week's article we covered the high level architecture and the design for the WiE Mobile Client. In this
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Before joining Microsoft I had started my own company to market a software as a service offering to the specialty trade contractor segment of the construction industry. Our service was called JIM (Job Intelligence Manager) and was a mobile project management
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