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Jun 27, 2004 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I had the privilege of visiting the Delphi user group of Minneapolis, hosted by Lemanix. The group is skippered by Nick Hodges and Mark Theiste -- both well-known Delphi pros. This is a small, but …

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Euro 2004 Tournament Schedule Web Service

Jun 24, 2004 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

My first Web Service published on XMethods.com. It's a screen-scraper application, but isn't as elegant as RegEx or HTML DOM but it works. Let me know if you want the source.

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SQL Server Reporting Services SP1 Released

Jun 23, 2004 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

SP1 includes a variety of improvements to the inital release! For a list of what's fixed and instructions read KB 839796, KB 842857, and KB 843369. To download SP1, visit this page.

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SQL Packager from Red Gate Software

Jun 22, 2004 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

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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SOAP Tracing Tools

Jun 19, 2004 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

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 …

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Code Complete (2nd Edition)

Jun 19, 2004 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

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.

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How to see your GAC'd assemblies in the "add reference" dialog

Jun 17, 2004 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

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 …

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Portals for Mere Mortals

Jun 17, 2004 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

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 …

Life SQL Server

MSI Installs without registering with Add/Remove Programs (ARP)

Jun 16, 2004 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

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 …

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