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September 2005 - Posts

Friday, September 30, 2005 5:54 PM

VSTS Code Coverage Customization

VSTS originally used intuitive colors for code that was covered , code that was not covered , and code that was partially covered . In beta 2, these was changed to a bunch of pastel colors, as others like Dave Donaldson notes. Dave explains how to switch
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Friday, September 30, 2005 1:09 PM

Interesting Caching 'Feature'

You may know that I'm a big fan of caching. My latest pet project is the creation of a cache wrapper object that extends the capabilities of the standards HttpRuntime.Cache (or System.Web.Caching.Cache) object. One feature that I'm implementing is capability
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Friday, September 30, 2005 12:40 PM

MVP Summit - Day 2

So, I'm in Seattle for the MVP Summit and it is a great time to network with a lot of people I haven't seen in quite some time (and many I just saw a couple of weeks ago at PDC...). They've been having some issues with transportation, so for instance
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Wednesday, September 28, 2005 11:12 AM

In Seattle

I'm in Seattle this week for the MVP Summit followed by the ASPInsiders summit. It's actually the longest I've been away from home since I got back from Iraq, but I'm looking forward to seeing a lot of folks I haven't seen in a couple of years. I met
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Thursday, September 22, 2005 5:23 PM

PDC Birds of a Feather Forums

I was lucky enough to attend a few Birds of a Feather sessions at PDC05 , including one hosted by Julia Lerman on Going Solo . At many of these, the time goes by very quickly and many of the attendees have additional questions for the host or for one
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Friday, September 16, 2005 1:32 PM

PDC: Atlas Hands-On Lab

I just completed the ASP.NET “Atlas” hands-on lab. It was very well put-together considering how completely new Atlas is. I imagine a few members of the ASP.NET team probably lost some sleep the week prior to PDC getting all of this put together
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Thursday, September 15, 2005 4:11 PM

More SqlDependency Gotchas

I wrote about some issues with SqlDependency in the latest interim build last week, but I forgot to mention one other gotcha that we ran into, which Scott Hanselman was struggling with yesterday . The necessary trick, which is only for that build so if
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Wednesday, September 14, 2005 4:48 PM

Anders on C# 3.0 and LINQ

Just came from Anders Hejlsberg's talk on C# 3.0 and LINQ. You can actually download a LINQ tech preview from MSDN, here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/future/linq/ The language features that had to go into place to allow for LINQ are quite impressive,
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005 4:40 PM

PDC - Jim Allchin's Keynote

Jim Allchin gave the second keynote, which included many demos from a variety of Microsoft teams and a couple of partners. Most of it centered around new features that will be available in Vista. For example, their virtual memory system will be able to
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005 4:28 PM

PDC - Bill Gates Keynote

Bill Gates gave this morning's first keynote at PDC 05. As is customary, he had a video to augment his presentation. These are usually very funny, but this one didn't do much for me (it was about Bill as a recruiter or something, but I didn't think they
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005 4:19 PM

PDC - I'm Here

Flew in last night. I was supposed to stay at the New Otani but they oversold their rooms, so at 1am local time they finally found me (and about 8 other PDC-goers) rooms back at the airport (45 min away). They paid for everything, as well they should,
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Monday, September 12, 2005 1:49 PM

Handy PowerPoint Tips

Clemens came up with a handy VBA macro that makes copying diagrams from one PPT to another much less painful. He explains the problem in more detail in his blog entry , but the basic issue is that different powerpoint files may use different color schemes.
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Wednesday, September 07, 2005 4:09 PM

Old Databases and Sql Query Notifications (cache invalidation)

Julie and I were having issues with getting Sql Query Notifications to work for ASP.NET cache dependencies (for our DevConnections talks). The trick was this: sp_dbcmptlevel yourdatabasename,90 Julie did most of the research on this one, with help from
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Wednesday, September 07, 2005 4:06 PM

I've Moved!

I haven't posted in a while because I finally moved into my new house. There's a bit of a backstory to this which I'll share here briefly. Also, I'll post some pictures at some point, but since this blog is likely to move to another server soon (and the
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