The Code To Live [http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Code_To_Live] video starts with an All-Girl AC/DC cover band. I'm not really sure what else you need to know. Steve Loethen [http://geekswithblogs.net/thesenator/] is a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft here in Kansas City (or some such…
MSDN has one of the better articles I've read on LINQ: The Evolution Of LINQ And Its Impact On The Design Of C# [http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/06/csharp30/default.aspx]. It really helped to see the design history to understand why things are the way they…
I posted the source code [http://www.sqlteam.com/downloads/scriptio.0.5.1.0.zip] for my SQL Server 2005 object scripting tool. The code reads like something I threw together to see if I could really do this. Because that's what it is. You can read a prior…
After working with SQL Server 2005 I've discovered that I can't script out one object per file and include both the DROP and CREATE in the same file. Which is driving me absolutely crazy! So I wrote a little utility and thought I'd share it. If you'd like to see…
I had a previous post about automatic bug reporting using FogBugz 3.0 [http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/billg/archive/2004/06/26/usingscout.aspx]. I recently upgraded to FogBugz 4.0 [http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBugz/] so I had to go through the process of setting this up again. (You…
I've updated my NAnt tasks to 0.94 (source [http://www.sqlteam.com/downloads/ClearData.NAntTasks-0.94-src.zip] and binary [http://www.sqlteam.com/downloads/ClearData.NAntTasks-0.94.zip]). I've added three new tasks. The first is a task to load an Excel spreadsheet into a SQL Server table. We've…
In my long tradition of releasing odd utilities (ok, utility) that no one but me uses I think I've come up with a winner. On one of my projects we've created an extensive database build process using NAnt [http://nant.sourceforge.net/]. This process creates the database with all its…
That has to be most cumbersome title I've ever used but it describes what I'm doing. We recently started using FogBUGZ [http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBUGZ/] for our bug and inquiry tracking for a couple of applications we've developed. We're running it on a server behind a firewall. FogBUGZ gives…
Here's a great little tool that helps you write a simple multi-threaded app [http://www.windowsforms.net/articles/easythread.aspx]. It gives you an easy way to move certain tasks to a background thread. Neat idea! Now I can move much of the database stuff to a background thread on…
MSDN has an article about some of the new features in C#/Whidbey [http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/whidbey_csharp_preview.asp] . It's a pretty neat article that talks about the language enchancements and new features in Visual Studio. I'm most interested…