I know, getting training budget is hard at the moment, but you really want to make yourself as employable as possible. Help is at hand (in fact, it’s only a mouse click away). There are, of course, a whole bunch of Virtual Labs you can do (for developers and for infrastructure people). There’s a...

Aney Adventures Online - I've Left Query Analyzer Hell For LINQPad Heaven “So now that LINQPad has enabled intellisense SQL Server Management Studio, Query Analyzer, and even Joseph Albahari's (LINQPad creator) own QueryEx have all been zapped from my memory.  I'll no longer flounder in antiq...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area…busy week this week, with lots of activities to choose from: Monday, January 26, 2009 7:00 PM: NORTHERN VIRGINIA SQL SERVER USERS GROUP - Main Session Title: Introduction to Performance Point Serv...

In the process of stumbling through LINQ To SQL to see if I would be able to represent a SQL Server database schema I created to represent a hierarchical well-defined XML Schema for a commonly used utility object, I came to the realization that I was indeed doing everything completely backwards! Wha...

Now that I have my list of Rock Band songs, I need to generate a Zune playlist. I wrote that Zune just uses the WMP playlist format, but that’s not completely true. Media elements in a Zune playlist have several attributes that appear unique to Zune. Because of Zune Pass, Zune supports the idea of...

you can tell from the title there’s a Friday rant coming can’t you ?  Well yeh, sometimes what should be a simple task of writing code becomes painstakingly slow.  Take for example this one line of code:   Dim doc = XDocument.Load("abc.xml")   Now if you like to wri...

Den 25-27 november är det dags för nästa omgång av MSDN Live. Den här gången kommer vi fokusera på helt på webbteknik i form av nyheter i ASP.NET och Internet Explorer 8. MSDN Live gästas den här gången av en riktig expert inom området: Pelle Johansson, MVP inom ASP.NET och grundare av P...

This may sound stupid, but I wanted to store some text parsing I was doing for some VDP projects in LINQ to XML XDocuments. So, I created the following: XDocument recs = new XDocument();XElement records1 = new XElement("Records");XElement record1 = new XElement("Record");record1.Add(new XElement("id...

This may sound stupid, but I wanted to store some text parsing I was doing for some VDP projects in LINQ to XML XDocuments. So, I created the following: XDocument recs = new XDocument(); XElement records1 = new XElement("Records"); XElement record1 = new XElement("Record"); record1.Add(new XElement(...

It's been a long time since I've posted : we've been very busy working hard on the next version of Visual Basic (the next version of Visual Studio will officially be called Visual Studio 2010). I'm really excited about the work we've done, and can't wait to share it with you. But for some immediate ...