In Community Server, several of our classes derive from the ExtendedAttributes class. This class creates a list of name value pairs on the class, and is picked off by our data layer and stored into two NTEXT columns in the table, PropertyNames, and PropertyValues.
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Microsoft has released a special version of the VS2005 SP1 update for PC's running Vista. There are several well known compatability issues between VS2005 and Vista... " During the development of Windows Vista, several key investments were made to vastly
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Vista is set to RTM this month (October) but as a tester, I find myself wondering if its really ready; my initial reaction was a quick "no way". Upon further reflection though I see the need for this move. I am using Vista on my main systems, and have
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This morning, Microsoft has released the official Vista Beta 2 (build 5384) to both connect beta participants and the MSDN subscribers. While a preliminary build of this release (5381) was made available to beta testers earlier this month, this release
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What a wait... well its nice to see it finally made it to release... I am not a very patient person, so I really appreciated the betas... but its nice to finally have something stable. http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/ Dan
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Have you ever found yourself looking to find the names of those auto created dependencies, so you could script against a table... maybe remove a null constraint you forgot to name in your create scripts or something? Here is the magic. SELECT s.name AS
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Attachment(s): DropColumnWithConstraint.sql
One of my fellow Telligenti ( Rich Mercer ) alerted me to a new addon for Visual Studio 2005, by Mikahil Arkhipov which embeds the Office 2003 spell checker in VS. It is smart enough to only spellcheck the human readable portions of the XML (HTML) doc.
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A buddy of mine alerted me to the fact that there was a stable build of ReSharper 2.0 for VS2005 available via JetBrains EAP... The release has been updated 3 times in the last week, so it looks like they are getting closer... it still seems to hate you
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One of our community developers Jayson Knight posted about a key Gotcha with CS Standard Search when running under ASPNET 2.0 http://jaysonknight.com/blog/archive/2006/02/26/7344.aspx Basically the String.GetHashCode algorithm has changed between ASPNET
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I am a big fan of direct navigation on web pages, and to that end, I find myself using a fair amount of asp:hyperlink controls. The problem I ran into was that the ASP.NET generated control id's for these controls was becoming a significant portion of
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Those who have been playing with the Acrylic betas will note that the October CTP installs itself as Microsoft Expression... And for those slackers at the Milwaukee INETA group that were insisting that Acrylic had nothing to do with XAML check out: Acrylic
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Microsoft has released an updated version of its 101 samples pack for visual studio ( they had released this one for 2003 ). If you have more time than I do... You should download this and check it out... The samples are designed and have been tested
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After you install the B2 ASP.NET framework, you might notice that the nifty ASP.NET tab in IIS that let you choose the framework version for the current site is missing... Apparently this is due to a bug in the beta 1 uninstall... The fix is to remove
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Ryan Hoffan posted this about a week ago... Internet Information Services in Windows x64 is 64-bit. This means, if you want to run 32-bit ISAPI DLLs with IIS6 on Windows x64, you'll need to apply a small tweak. Open up a Command Prompt window, and type
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So big Iron (IBM) has been there and done that and moved on, along with all of the super computer manufacturers, but now this technology has filtered through the Workstations Space (like SUN) and even high end MAC's (With the 64bit PowerPC CPU) and down
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