STM and .Net 4.0 Beta 1
I installed STM.Net this past week (Software Transactional Memory) as a experimental trial from DevLabs. Although I’m not sure how this environment will help my current enterprise I work for, I’m still curious about learning something new. I haven’t had a chance to try out the code yet this week, but hopefully next week after I set up my new dev environment at work I can install it there too and give it a whirl. I’ll post something here once…
Great upcoming webcasts and seminars
It seems like September through November is heavy on developer and security webcasts. I’m including as many as I can in this entry, if anyone notices others feel free to post them in the comments below. 24 Hours of PASS – 24 one-hour long-ish webcasts from industry experts on SQL related management and development. geekSpeak: Generics and Collections (Level 200) – Webcast providing details and best practices with collections and lists in .Net Framework 3.5Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008…
New code library site
I created a basic code library site to host all of the code snippets I’ve gathered and/or created over time. Go here to visit the site. It’s pretty basic and empty right now, I’ll dress it up a little more as time goes on. I’m also trying to determine a better way of sub-categorizing the code in each of the language tabs. I welcome suggestions. Enjoy!
WPF Databinding to a Combobox
So I’m trying to hone my skills in ASP.Net while at the same time learn new technology and languages. I’ve been working with WPF since it came out, and the more I play with it the more I like it. My most recent project includes quite a bit of databinding, which I quickly learned is very different from ASP.Net. For this posting, I’ll assume we need to databind to a Combobox. Before I begin, please note this is of course…
Problems installing SQL 2008
I had originally installed SQL 2005 Express on my laptop, and something happened during the installation and it got corrupted. I was unable to uninstall, whether I used Add/Remove programs, ran setup.exe ACTION=uninstall from the command line while in the SQL root path, even if I used msicuu2 and msizap to look for the GUIDs associated with SQL 2005. Nothing worked. I thought installing SQL 2008 Express might “fix” or overwrite something and then get me the latest version to…