Monthly Archives: December 2007

Show your support for Developer Day Scotland

Posted on Monday, 17 December, 2007 by Colin Mackay

There are now some official badges and banners for everyone to use to show their support for Developer Day Scotland. There are a variety of sizes and a number of different banners. Download them from the Developer Day Scotland website. … Continue reading →

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Spatial Operations in SQL Server 2008 (Katmai) – Union and Convex Hull

Posted on Saturday, 15 December, 2007 by Colin Mackay

CODE EXAMPLES IN THIS POST WORK WITH THE NOVEMBER 2007 CTP (CTP 5) OF SQL SERVER 2008. Say you would like to create a polygon out of a group of points. One way of doing this is to union the … Continue reading →

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Always show the solution, Dammit!!!

Posted on Saturday, 8 December, 2007 by Colin Mackay

This has got to be the most pointless setting in Visual Studio. I can’t imagine why any reasonable person would want to hide the solution. Maybe it is for those “Morts” I keep hearing about who bundle everything into one … Continue reading →

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Contradictory messages

Posted on Saturday, 8 December, 2007 by Colin Mackay

While attempting to create a database project in Visual Studio 2008 against a SQL Server 2008 database I got a rather odd error message. The dialog used to create the project requests information about the SQL Server database. It clearly … Continue reading →

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Inserting geometry through a .NET Application

Posted on Thursday, 6 December, 2007 by Colin Mackay

THIS POST REFERS TO THE NOVEMBER 2007 CTP (CTP 5) OF SQL SERVER 2008 Following from my previous posts (Getting started with Spatial Data in SQL Server 2008, Spatial Data in a .NET application) on the new spatial features of … Continue reading →

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Improving performance with parallel code

Posted on Wednesday, 5 December, 2007 by Colin Mackay

While waiting for my car to get serviced today I finally managed to catch up on reading some articles in MSDN Magazine. One of them, on optimising managed code for multi-core machines, really caught my attention. The article was about … Continue reading →

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Parsing OS Grid References

Posted on Tuesday, 4 December, 2007 by Colin Mackay

If you have ever been to an agile coding session you may have come across the concept of the coding kata. It is an exercise designed to improve coding skill by making you more aware of the different ways of … Continue reading →

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Spatial Data in a .NET application

Posted on Sunday, 2 December, 2007 by Colin Mackay

THIS POST REFERS TO THE NOVEMBER 2007 CTP (CTP 5) OF SQL SERVER 2008 Following from my last post about Getting Started with Spatial Data in SQL Server 2008 in the database, how about actually using it in an application? … Continue reading →

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Blog Stats for November 2007

Posted on Sunday, 2 December, 2007 by Colin Mackay

Here are the top ten posts of November (NOTE: These were not necessarily posted in November) Position Last Month Title 10 New Entry Forum Signatures 9 New Entry What is a DAL (Part 3) 8 6 Visual Studio 2005 on … Continue reading →

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Getting started with Spatial Data in SQL Server 2008

Posted on Saturday, 1 December, 2007 by Colin Mackay

THIS POST REFERS TO THE NOVEMBER 2007 CTP (CTP 5) OF SQL SERVER 2008 This post is probably going to be a wee bit random. After the running around over the last couple of weeks with the MSDN event (Sharepoint … Continue reading →

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