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You may have noticed already, but the RC1 release of Internet Explorer 8 is now available for download at this location . Internet Explorer 8 offers the following new features: Accellerators. Makes it easier to map directions, translate words, send email, etc. Learn more InPrivate Browsing. IE 8 will...
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I was triggered to read a blog post by James Whittaker, software architect at Microsoft, through an article in Computable, a Dutch IT magazine. The dutch article was a short interview with James Whittaker about his work at Microsoft and for Visual Studio 10. He mentioned the title of his blog post to...
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This week I'm in Seattle as part of LEAP 2009 , a Microsoft program for Dutch IT architects. Purpose of this program is to increase knowledge on Microsoft's vision on technical architecture, the future of software technology and enhancing architects knowledge of Microsoft's product range...
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I see a lot of code from other developers and every now and then you see some real gems. Today I was looking at a query to see if and how it could be optimised. One of the things I did was look at the query plan to see if indexes were used for various joins. One of the items in the plan made me look...
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In my current project, we have a tables where the primary key consists of two values. Based on the result of a query, we needed to delete a few rows from that table. The query returned the two key values and we needed to join that information in the delete statement. It's not rocket science, but...
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On October 13, Eric Traut from the Core Virtual Machine Team at Microsoft’s Core OS Division, gave a presentation about the vritualization technology Microsoft currently has to offer. The full presentation can be seen here and takes about an hour. During the presentation, he talks about various...
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In my current project, we have adopted Microsoft StyleCop as a tool to make sure everyone sticks to the same style of coding. One of the things we currently incorporate in our daily work is making sure our existing code conforms to the rules we agreed on. Today however, StyleCop refused to check a class...
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The Sandcastle project, Microsoft's tools to generate documentation from your well-documented code, is now available on CodePlex. That was already the case, but until about 2 month's ago, that was without the source code. You can now download Sandcastle including the source code from CodePlex...
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Because I blog about Crystal Reports occasionally, and created a helper class to assist in integrating it into .Net applications, I get a lot of questions from people that have problems running their reports. Especially in production environments after they deploy the reports. Unfortunately, I'm...
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Just as a small update on the use of StyleCop . I disagreed with some of the rules, like having to use spaces rather than tabs. It's not really an annoying rule, the only thing about it is that you have to agree on using spaces or tabs and then stick to it. But still, I found out you can tune StyleCop...
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Or to be more specific, by Microsoft StyleCop . Now this may not be new to you, and that's very likely since StyleCop was announced in May of this year, but it was new to me. The tool checks your code for coding style and more specific, the Microsoft coding style. It was developed outside the VSTS...
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I never had to do anything with SAP my self, other than interfacing from a .Net application. But since SAP has purchased Business Objects, I find I have to deal with them more and more. Why? Well, since SAP bought Business Objects, who bought Crystal Decisions a while back, they are the owner of Crystal...
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It happens to all of us. You need an icon for a specific subject and you can't seem to find one. Having a new icon designed might take too long. Usually, people simply resort to starting Google Image search . This morning I bumped into Wikimedia Commons . They have a large image base which is categorized...
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I know, for a lot of Microsoft developers Crystal Reports (CR) is a no-go area. But I know that a lot of developers are using it, whether they like it or not. Because of my posts about CR, and more specifically my CrystalHelper class, I'm asked how to deploy applications that use the free version...
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VB6 and VB.Net developers know this feature: "Late Binding" and C# developers have often ridiculed that option. Buit it seems that the next version of Visual Studio will support a feature called "Dynamic type support". An article on this new feature can be found here , at Charlie...