August 2005 - Posts
I'm not entirely convinced ORM is the way to go in production oriented applications, again, the real answer is "It depends". However, sure helps for rapid prototyping and reducing building V1 and Tech Previews. Of course, just like VB4 - VB6 should only
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Very cool and useful tool!! http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e0fc1154-c975-4814-9649-cce41af06eb7&DisplayLang=en Overview SyncToy v1.0 is available as a free download on the Microsoft Download Center. The easy to use, customizable
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Simple Shell extension that provides rapid Virtual Directory mapping in IIS
This is a promising tool. Open Source (under GPL) and works with the majore DB vendors although "optimized" for MySQL. http://www.fabforce.net/dbdesigner4/index.php General Information - What is DBDesigner 4? DBDesigner 4 is a visual database design system
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http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2cc30a64-ea15-4661-8da4-55bbc145c30e&DisplayLang=en Overview The WMI Code Creator tool generates code that uses WMI to obtain management information or perform management tasks. You can use
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Not really, but it certaintly feels that way when you're trying to get it working in an environment that involves more than one machine. Thankfully, MSFT does provide a couple of utilities to help diagnose and here's an article on use. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/ckempster/debuggingmsdtcissues.asp
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Interesting tool, now distributed as part of .NET 2.0, for testing, performance, unit, etc. Web Services. Cool graphics, like ACT on steroids... http://www.amberpoint.com/
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Too bad Object Spaces didn't make the cut for 2.0... http://www.ideablade.com/products/products.html Some other helpful ORM / gen' links [1] http://www.ormapper.net/ [2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/objectspaces.aspx [3] http://www.codesmithtools.co
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Just a whitepaper at this point... Expected August 2005 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=49818cf1-2287-40ea-8a6f-57bd8695f23d&DisplayLang=en Synchronizing Images and Files in Windows XP Using Microsoft SyncToy Overview Increasingly,
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I've got 5 machines running at home and 3 notebook computers. It'd be nice to keep things sync between them. Over the years I made extensive use of the Notes in Outlook 2000, XP, 2003 and I'm tired of using my Axim to sync. I now have a Smart phone but
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