september 2005 - Posts

30 september 2005
First look at Notification Services
Notification Services (NS) offers a framework for building alerting applications. The overall architecture sees event providers (File System Watcher, SQL statements, Analysis Services) that generate events. Subscribers (some UI or application) indicate that they want to receive noticifications when certain... Read More...
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30 september 2005
Half-Life 2 Mod Spot on MSDN website
Just a very short post on a spot I found at the MSDN website some time ago: Half-Life 2 modification programming . Not a lot of modding information there right now (just a set of links to other websites), but it does indicate that Microsoft is aware of game programming. Also check out the Game Development... Read More...
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29 september 2005
Developing custom Data Integration components
You might want to build your own components for use in SQL Server Integration Services (IS) if you need some functionality that doesn't exist just yet. This might be to simplify maintenance and make reuse easy, or because the task is pretty complex in itself. The components you might want to customize... Read More...
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28 september 2005
Hop on the SQL Server Express
Rick Heiges did a talk on SQL Server Express (SSE). SSE is the natural successor to Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine 2000 (MSDE2000) and a light-weight version of SQL Server 2005. And it is free! Here's a summary of the talk. It is interleaved with some last minute information provided by two SSE... Read More...
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28 september 2005
How SQL Server 2005 takes control of CLR
One of the great things that I heard at the preconference session was the new way that hosts can interact with the Common Language Runtime in version 2.0. SQL Server 2005 is one of the new hosts for the CLR. Besides general Win32 processes, ASP.NET is the best known host that we had before SQL2005 came... Read More...
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28 september 2005
My take on Visual Studio Team Suite
My " trainer/coach view " on Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite just went round the world (EMEA actually) in the Beta Experience newsletter #3. Some interesting things to notice: Published September, 5th (yep, that's when I handed the piece in) Mis-spelled my name :( to Alex Thyssen Update : Microsoft hot... Read More...
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28 september 2005
Lieke growing up
My daughter Lieke is growing up faster than I could imagine. She's well past one year now (1 year and 3 months to be exact) and I didn't put up a blog entry for her birthday :$ So, to make up for it a picture of what Lieke looks like today. And yes, it is the girl in the front. The woman in the back... Read More...
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28 september 2005
SQL Pass 2005 Preconference sessions
Just came back from two days of Bob Beauchemin 's preconference sessions called "New Features in SQL Server 2005/.NET 2.0 for Developers - In Depth". Slides and other materials should be up on the SQLSkills website in a couple of days after this posting. Bob is an excellent trainer and speaker. He co... Read More...
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25 september 2005
SQL Pass 2005: Here we are (meeting the parents)
Howdie, y'all! My colleague Frits Ankersmit and I just arrived at the Gaylord Texan Resort (hence the connection with the movie Meet the Parents , where the main character is actually called Gaylord ;) We are in Dallas, Texas to attend the SQL Pass 2005 conference. Expect to read a lot more on SQL Server... Read More...
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16 september 2005
PDC 2005: if you are not there
You can still get all the slides that are used on the Professional Developer Conference 2005 right here . What I picked up by browsing the PDC 2005 site: Workflow engine now has material online . Nice article by Dino Esposito and another intro here . Atlas (i.e. AJAX development) at ASP.NET website ... Read More...
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13 september 2005
Follow-up on web setup
Some time ago I reported on Limitations of VS.NET Web Setup project PLUS workaround(s) . When I was working at the Provincie Noord-Brabant, Robrecht (one of the people working there) pointed me to this knowledge base article: FIX: You cannot deploy a Web Setup project to Web sites by using host headers... Read More...
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12 september 2005
New Dutch community sees light of day
There is a new community group emerging in The Netherlands in the very near future: VBCentral . The persons behind and in front of the scenes are André Obelink and Willem van den Broek. They are well-known in the Visual Basic 6.0 and .NET world because of their year-long involvement with the Visual Basic... Read More...
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12 september 2005
Launch tour 2005: ?READYTOEXPLORE
You might have heard about Visual Studio 2005 getting a worldwide launch at November, 7th 2005 . It will be big. VS2005, SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006 will no longer be beta. The Netherlands and developers are going to party at a secret location with the Dutch version of the launch tour . There... Read More...
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05 september 2005
Champions finishes second at Networkingday
Last weekend Champions eSports Association visited the well-known Dutch LAN Networkingday/Club3D Evolution . It is famous for the level of the Counter-Strike clans that come to this event. The European top-5 clan Incredible Teamaction (clanIT) came all the way from Denmark to try and take home the first... Read More...
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01 september 2005
MSDN/TechNet Briefings October 2005
Microsoft has just opened the registration for the Dutch MSDN/TechNet Briefings for the fall of 2005. The briefings will be held in four Dutch cities: Zwolle Bussum Veldhoven Rotterdam On each of these days there will be three different tracks: New Technology, Infrastructure and Developer. There will... Read More...
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