Sushil's WebLog : Misc

SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 RTM!

sushilc — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 22:04:00 GMT

Yes, we have done it! SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 are now released to manufacturing. What this means that we are done with both the products, you can even download the official bits if you have MSDN subscription. More information can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/ . The official launch of these products will happen on Nov. 7 2005 in San Francisco. You can find more information about the Launch at http://msdn.microsoft.com/Launch2005/

Looking forward to your feedback and comments.

ConnectionStringBuilder in ADO.Net v2.0 - a Primer

sushilc — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:22:00 GMT

Do you want to know more about ConnectionStringBuilder feature in ADO.Net v2.0? If yes, then look up our team site where I posted a short introduction.

Our team blog is Online

sushilc — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:49:00 GMT

The team in which I work is called DataWorks. I am excited to announce that we as a team have our own Web Log at http://blogs.msdn.com/dataaccess. Check out the message from our PUM (Product Unit Manager) - Alyssa. Via this blog, we look forward to get feedback from you for the components we release. Check it out!

Guerrilla SQL Server 2005 class

sushilc — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:44:00 GMT

I happened to go to one of the class from a mentoring company. It was presented by Bob Beauchemin-Niels Berglund-Dan Sullivan. Boy! they were great!
I was just in time for the ADO.Net presentation that Bob made. He talked about top 3 features that he liked in ADO.Net
1. Provider Factory - He talked at great lengths about how easy it was to use provider factory to write generic code
2. Meta Data/GetSchema - The easy way to get meta data Schema. More information in his article in MSDN - (link)
3. Tracing - Yes, we shipped a way for you to get trace output from System.Data internal code. Now this is the feature that was not that well documented in Beta docs, but this article (written by bob, grin) does a very good job explaining the internals and how to get it working.

It was great to see these guys present. They were awesome and great! (Oh, did I already say that :))