Archive for the ‘Development’ Category
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
Sometimes you’ve got to wonder why database developers do things the way the do. Take for example the sysjobhistory table in the SQL Server msdb database. Its got two awful columns namely run_date and run_time. Why are they awful you ask? Well because they are integer representations of the date ...
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
So as most of you probably know by now, Silverlight 4 has been announced and a beta is already released, you can head off over here to find out what’s new and to download the bits you need like Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, etc. One big warning though, ...
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
Most of you knew it was coming and I’m really excited that its out now so I can talk about it. Silverlight 3 really is very cool and adds amazing performance improvements and additional features that people have been wanting. My personal favourites are: Hardware ...
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
After months of community beta testing the first release build of the ASP.NET MVC (Model View Controller) framework has been released. If you are a web developer and don’t know what I’m talking about, head on over to the ASP.NET MVC site where you can find a wealth of ...
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
After many months of beta testing Microsoft Silverlight 2 it has been officially announced that it will release today, the 14th of October 2008. A release build was expected to emerge sometime in November so it seems the team is very confident with the RC0 developer-only build that emerged ...
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
Have you ever wanted to create a table in SQL Server with a nullable column that should be unique as well? I have often needed this and resorted to defining a new table that links to the master table. But SQL Server 2008 has the solution to this, see my ...
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
Isaac Kunen has posted details about the new SQL Server Spatial Tools project on CodePlex containing functions that can be used when working with the new SQL Server 2008 spatial data types. The core idea is that instead of pushing up more samples showing how to ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
We all knew it was coming and finally its confirmed and coming to an Xbox 360 console near you later this year. Using the free XNA Game Studio 2.0 coupled with Visual C# Express Edition from Microsoft you can now not only design and build your own ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
I previously posted about Blend 2.5 June Preview not supporting managed type converters and I’m pleased to report that the team has resolved it according to the bug report that I filed. Hopefully we’ll see a new build of Blend 2.5 ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
The 2008 Microsoft XNA Dream-Build-Play Challenge has begun and its looking like its going to be a really cool competition this year. The best part is that is a worldwide competition so that means even us South Africans can win. There is a total of $75 ...
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