Microsoft’s alternative to the iPad: the ExoPC 04 January 2011 Peter-Himschoot Windows 7 http://www.exopc.com/en/index.php
Very Spatial Wishes 20 December 2010 Diederik-Krols Spatial, SQL Server Last year I encountered this T-SQL script on a MSDN Forum. Run it in SQL Management Studio (not Visual Studio!), and select 'Spatial Results': -- Original Source: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sqlspatial/thread/d52c686e-30cc-4ae0-bdc7-ae4a2536cd64 -- Prepare the scene CREAT... [More]
Azure Inter-role communication using callback instead of queues 20 December 2010 Peter-Himschoot Azure, WCF, VS2010, .NET Development I’m currently playing with Azure and the Azure training kit, and I learned something cool today. When you work with Azure you can setup multiple worker roles for your Azure application. If you want to make these roles talk to one another you can use the queuing mechanism which is part of Azure. But ... [More]
Using reporting services with Oracle package / stored procedure 16 December 2010 Nico-Jacobs SQL Server BI, Reporting Services Reporting services can create data sets on top of Oracle stored procedures. Sure, the manual says so, but this afternoon, I tried to get things up and running, and I want to share some of the dead ends and problems I experienced in that, maybe it can help you avoid these obstacles. Don’t panic, not ... [More]
A fistful of Entity Framework 4.0 Tips 16 December 2010 Diederik-Krols Entity Framework 4.0, SQL Server This article presents some useful tips for building the data access layer of an enterprise application on top of Entity Framework 4.0 (EF40). For those who can't wait, here they are: 1. Only project the columns you really need, 2. Stay away from the Include syntax, 3. Consider alternatives, 4. But ... [More]
Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta is available 11 December 2010 Peter-Himschoot VS2010 For those really on the edge people, the beta of SP1 for VS2010 is available: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=11ea69cb-cf12-4842-a3d7-b32a1e5642e2&displaylang=en
Farewell Visitor 01 December 2010 Kris-Vandermotten .NET The Visitor design pattern was first documented in 1995 by the Gang of Four. It’s a workaround for the fact that most strongly typed object oriented languages only support single dispatch, even when sometimes double dispatch is required. With C# 4, we no longer need this workaround. We now have some... [More]
Scripting in integration services data flow 24 November 2010 Nico-Jacobs If you wander how we can program our own conditional splits in SSIS data flow, or implement our own asynchronous transformations, or implement things such as a Year-To-Date, then you forgot to attend my session at the SQL Server Day. Luckily you can catch up with the slides and code samples on my we... [More]
Looking at generated queries for LINQ 2 SQL and EF with Visual Studio 2010 Intelli-Trace 14 November 2010 Peter-Himschoot VS2010, .NET Development When you use LINQ to SQL or Entity Framework you might wonder from time to time what the actual SQL is that was generated by the runtime. Both frameworks have their specific way to allow you to look at this, but require some extra code. Of course you shouldn’t forget to remove this code. Visual Stu... [More]
Lambda Curry in F# 30 October 2010 Kris-Vandermotten .NET Bart De Smet commented on my post about Lambda Curry in C#, saying (amongst other things) that F# supports currying out of the box. That’s true, and it’s a nice feature of the language. However, it is a mechanical operation, almost identical to what the following C# extension method does: public&#... [More]