SQL Packager from Red Gate Software
Red Gate just announced their SQL Packager product, which makes packing up and deploying databases a snap. You can package structure, data, or both. It creates a .NET executable which you can walk …
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If you are doing any serious Web Service development, you'll need a good tracing tool -- something that watches HTTP traffic and logs the requests and resonses, so you can see what SOAP …
Read more →Steve McConnell's must-own book gets a service pack and hits the street this month.
Read more about it at the official Website, Microsoft Press, and Amazon.com.
Read more →How to see your GAC'd assemblies in the "add reference" dialog
I get asked this so often that I'm just going to blog about it. It's not a new trick, but it's not very obvious either. Unfortunately, you have to use the registry to pull this off.
Microsoft has …
Read more →Was thinking today of all of the portal options avaiable and decided that there were too many to remember (rule of 7), so I thought I'd enumerate them, with hyperlinks, for future recall.
Rainbow …
Read more →MSI Installs without registering with Add/Remove Programs (ARP)
I had a student ask how to do this, because they have problems with their users dabbling with Control Panel's ARP applet. I suggested a tighter group policy, but went on to research the MSI …
Read more →Google Email (GMail) having an effect on Yahoo
Looks like Yahoo is supersizing their free email capabilities to 100mb and freeing up many previously inactive addresses in a preemptive strike.
Ain't competition great?
BTW - It looks like 100s, …
Read more →Had a student ask me about this one today, so I investigated further. It seems that this is the design pattern which keeps a list of objects (or records) affected by a business transaction and …
Read more →Wanted to list a few good resources here for this technology:
Chris Sells' article on command line arguments
Launching No-Touch Deployment Applications with Command Line Arguments
Chris Sell's …
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