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Monthly Archives: July 2008
What’s New in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1
Finally, Microsoft have a date for an event in Scotland. It is on 16th of October in their new offices in Waverley Gate, Edinburgh. Here are the details: [Register for the event here] 16 October 2008 13:30 – 16:15 Welcome … Continue reading
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Tip of the Day #7 (SysInternals)
I’ve visited the SysInternals site a few times over the course of my career because of some strange problem that I just couldn’t track down. The amount of information about what is actually happening on your system that the SysInternals … Continue reading
Scottish Developers July Newsletter
Welcome We are now in the middle of summer, however as I write this over a period of several days I can tell you that it has been chucking it down and it has been roasting. If you are interested … Continue reading
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Tip of the Day #6 (Keyboard Shortcuts in IE)
If you prefer to use your keyboard more than your mouse then you may be interested in this set of keyboard shortcuts for Internet Explorer 6 and 7. Technorati Tags: ie,internet explorer,keyboard,keyboard shortcut
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How I got started in Software Development?
There is a meme going around at the moment and I thought I’d join in even although I’ve not been specifically tagged by it, it looks good fun. I spotted it on Phil Haak’s blog with his response. How old were … Continue reading
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VBUG Manchester – Spatial Queries
Just a reminder to anyone that is interested that I’m speaking tomorrow (Thursday July 24th) Evening at VBUG in Manchester on the topic of SQL Server 2008 Spatial Queries, slide decks are available on my website. Technorati Tags: VBUG,Manchester,Spatial … Continue reading
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Tip of the Day #5 (SQL Server memory usage)
You can limit the amount of memory that SQL Server uses by using the sp_configure stored procedure. By limiting the amount of memory that SQL Server is permitted to use it means that more memory is available to other applications … Continue reading
Monitoring change in XML data (LINQ to XML series – Part 5)
This is the 5th part in a series on LINQ to XML. In this instalment we will look at monitoring changes in XML data in the XML classes added to .NET 3.5. The XObject class (from which XElement and XAttribute, … Continue reading
Tip of the Day #4 (Connection Strings in Config files)
From .NET 2.0 onwards a new and improved configuration management system has been put in place. You can now add a <connectionString> element to the config file and use it to place the connection strings to the database and then … Continue reading
SQL Bits III Session Voting and Delegate Registration open
SQL Bits are going for a slightly different take on the registration process this time. You vote for the sessions you want to see at the same time as signing up for the conference. This is quite interesting because it … Continue reading
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