April 2005 - Posts
Are you ready to learn about SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and BizTalk 2004/2006, but you lack the motivation required to take on this monstrous task? I present to you: the carrot . [L]ast years developer competition was so much fun we are doing
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A month ago I decided to take the plunge and buy a SmartPhone. With my new job I have a gadget budget so that helped me make the decision. After doing some research I decided to get the i-mate SP3i . The pros : Nice and small phone Internet access - Syncs
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One of the features of SQL Server 2005 that I'm hoping to dig into is the Service Broker. Since I've been following Yukon for quite some time I've seen a lot of presentations on Service Broker: what is it, how it works, etc. But everything relating to
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I thought Matt had retired... :)
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Via Andrew Watt : Service Pack 2 for Reporting Services 2000 is available for download. Visit SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services Service Pack 2 . Bug fixes in SP2 are listed at Microsoft Knowledge Base article 889640 . I'll be interested to hear what
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From Dr. Rys : As part of our improvements on OpenXML, we have changed the MSXML component from 2.6 to 3.0 (running in 2.6 backwards-compatibility mode) and moved to a private DLL (called MSXMLSQL.DLL) in order to avoid the reboot requirement when installing
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Ok, so I can remotely enable remote desktop . But what about remotely disabling windows firewall? Over the weekend I setup a new server box and managed to fit it in my server closet. But I didn't just install Windows Server 2003, I installed Windows Server
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From Jeff Key : I don't know how many times I've installed Windows, unhooked the monitor and keyboard, then tried to Remote Desktop in...and nothing, because I hadn't turned on Remote Desktop. I did it again today and quickly found a great answer: a single
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Just a quick tip... If you're trying to install Visual Studio 2005 on a Virtual PC, you will find the ISO image cannot be captured because it is too big. However, there is a very clever workaround here . Basically, you use this Microsoft utility called
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Recently my dad was telling me about how when he travels, he finds himself driving around in neighborhoods with his laptop on the passenger seat to help him locate open WiFi networks. So when I was at Staples the other night I bought him a Kensington
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What a great birthday present! REDMOND, Wash. -- April 18, 2005 -- Microsoft Corp. today announced availability of Visual Studio® 2005 Beta 2, Microsoft® .NET Framework 2.0 Beta 2 and the SQL Server (TM) 2005 April Community Technology Preview
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EasySearch asked me to check out thier new EasySearch for ASP.Net , so I did. I ran the live demo and searched for RsWebParts on my blog. It found one result which was actually an RSS link, not a web page, but that is understandable. You will also need
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At my previous job I worked at a desk with a desktop computer, so there wasn't a real good excuse to buy lots of cool gadgets. But now that I'm a road warrior with a gadget budget, I'm having fun buying lots of geeky stuff. So here is my first gadget
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Yesterday I stopped by Fry's Electronics after work hoping to pick up a MiniSD card for my new phone (more about that later). I had done some price checking online earlier in the day and was leaning toward buying the SanDisk 512MB card from Buy.com. I
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