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Wednesday, November 23, 2005 5:03 PM

Embedding SQL Server Express into Custom Applications

Rob Walters, from the SQL Team, and I worked on an article for working with SQL Express in Windows Forms applications. There are a couple of quirks when it comes to Click Once that have been included in this MSDN article. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnsse/html/EmSQLExCustApp.asp
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Tuesday, November 22, 2005 7:29 PM

Building SQL manually considered harmful

I just got done fixing a painful bug. The long and short of it is that I had code like this (simplified a lot for brevity): Public Sub StoreSyncDate() Dim sql As String = "insert into SyncTimes (ObjectID, SyncDate) values ({0}, '{1}')" sql = String.Format(sql,
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Saturday, November 19, 2005 2:40 AM

How do I get to the generated code?

In order to get to the code that is auto-generated by Visual Studio, follow these steps: 1. In the menu, select View -> Solution Explorer 2. In Solution Explorer, click the “Show all Files” icon at the top 3. Expand the file (e.g. Dataset1.xsd) that
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Friday, November 18, 2005 9:30 PM

Data Sources window is inactive in Design View

On certain machines, after installing Visual Studio 2005, the contents of the Data Sources window disappears when a design surface that allows drag and drop from the Data Sources window is active. For example, the Windows Forms designer, User Control
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Wednesday, November 02, 2005 5:23 PM

Installing Northwind on SqlExpress

When performing a default install of Visual Studio 2005 an instance of Sql Server Express edition is installed. Unfortunately there are no sample databases included with Sql Express. ( http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/sql/ ) I've had more than a
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