My Digital Life has a post on how to change the compatibility level for a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or 2008 database.
One criticism I have with the post is that it has an optional first command to set the database into SINLGE_USER mode, but at the end doesn't remind the user to set it back to MULTI_USER mode, assuming that the database was in MULTI_USER mode to begin with of course.
Check it out here.
Wednesday 4 November 2009
Tuesday 15 January 2008
GeForce 9600GT Preliminary Benchmark Results
Preliminary benchmarks are out for NVidia's new beast, the G94-powered GeForce 9600GT! This is NVidia's new card that is being released on Valentine's Day (14 February 2008.) It will be an upgrade for the current 8600 series of cards. Check it out here.
Wednesday 21 November 2007
A Few Interesting Points From the Johannesburg Visual Studio 2008 Jumpstart DevChat, Part One
On Monday, 19 November 2007 Microsoft hosted the Johannesburg Visual Studio 2008 Jumpstart DevChat. I should be getting some of the slides that Louis de Klerk from Inobits used in his presentation so expect a more comprehensive summary at a later date. For now, here a few point that piqued my interest:
First of all, thanks to Loius for a great presentation. (You still owe me a WPF demo Louis ;-). Ahmed, I have no idea how you managed to not explode with the news of VS2k8's release. For those of you that did not attend, when asked about the release date of VS2k8 all Ahmed said was the it was "soon." Little did we know that it was a few hours away!
Now then, on to the content. Microsoft labels changes to it's new releases as either "red bits" or "green bits", where red bits are potentially disruptive changes to classes and green bits are supposed to be non-disruptive changes. What this means is that red bits might/will most probably break your existing code and green bit aren't supposed to.
For Windows Server 2008, a fresh installation will have .NET Framework 2 and SP1 installed on it. When one applies the Application Server Role, .NET Framework 3.0 and SP1 are installed. When one runs a Window Update on that box, .NET Framework 3.5 will be installed.
The design goals for the new Visual Studio appear to be very UI/developer orientated. Despite what Louis said about one of the main focus points of the VB team was for a better "design experience", from what I saw the "design experience" for all languages have been significantly advanced. There are now "design surfaces" for virtually every part and facet of a project, so that mean almost no more editing by hand! Hooray! There is also now support for Vista Common Control in the MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes for unmanaged code/C++,) apparently a major update for the "old" MFC. There are also enhancements to Microsoft's ClickOnce Deployment, with it now working correctly with Firefox and it also working through proxy servers.
For web developers, Visual Studio has been massively improved with a split pane view for editing web pages. Not a great improvement compared to the rest of the world, but quite a step for Microsoft. There have also been enhancements for HTML and CSS editing, as well as Intellisense for AJAX and Javascript. Basically, the Visual Studio team apparently culled a lot of elements from Expression Web Designer and stuffed them into Visual Studio.
As far as language enhancements go, there a plenty: improved data and language integration in VB and C#, multiple .NET framework support from within the IDE - 2, 3.0 and 3.5 - smarter Intellisense and, of course, LINQ just to name a few.
For all you developers out there that use unit tests, you might be glad to hear that unit tests are now included in all versions of Visual Studio Professional Edition (sorry Express Edition users.) Code performance and analysis, however, are only available in Team Editions.
First of all, thanks to Loius for a great presentation. (You still owe me a WPF demo Louis ;-). Ahmed, I have no idea how you managed to not explode with the news of VS2k8's release. For those of you that did not attend, when asked about the release date of VS2k8 all Ahmed said was the it was "soon." Little did we know that it was a few hours away!
Now then, on to the content. Microsoft labels changes to it's new releases as either "red bits" or "green bits", where red bits are potentially disruptive changes to classes and green bits are supposed to be non-disruptive changes. What this means is that red bits might/will most probably break your existing code and green bit aren't supposed to.
For Windows Server 2008, a fresh installation will have .NET Framework 2 and SP1 installed on it. When one applies the Application Server Role, .NET Framework 3.0 and SP1 are installed. When one runs a Window Update on that box, .NET Framework 3.5 will be installed.
The design goals for the new Visual Studio appear to be very UI/developer orientated. Despite what Louis said about one of the main focus points of the VB team was for a better "design experience", from what I saw the "design experience" for all languages have been significantly advanced. There are now "design surfaces" for virtually every part and facet of a project, so that mean almost no more editing by hand! Hooray! There is also now support for Vista Common Control in the MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes for unmanaged code/C++,) apparently a major update for the "old" MFC. There are also enhancements to Microsoft's ClickOnce Deployment, with it now working correctly with Firefox and it also working through proxy servers.
For web developers, Visual Studio has been massively improved with a split pane view for editing web pages. Not a great improvement compared to the rest of the world, but quite a step for Microsoft. There have also been enhancements for HTML and CSS editing, as well as Intellisense for AJAX and Javascript. Basically, the Visual Studio team apparently culled a lot of elements from Expression Web Designer and stuffed them into Visual Studio.
As far as language enhancements go, there a plenty: improved data and language integration in VB and C#, multiple .NET framework support from within the IDE - 2, 3.0 and 3.5 - smarter Intellisense and, of course, LINQ just to name a few.
For all you developers out there that use unit tests, you might be glad to hear that unit tests are now included in all versions of Visual Studio Professional Edition (sorry Express Edition users.) Code performance and analysis, however, are only available in Team Editions.
Tuesday 20 November 2007
Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2008
Just a quick update. Microsoft have released Visual Studio 2008, and from what I saw yesterday, AWESOME!!! I'll update again about yesterday soon.
Links:
CraigN's blog:
http://craign.net/2007/11/19/visual-studio-2008-released/#comment-248
Somaregar's blog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2007/11/19/visual-studio-2008-and-net-framework-3-5-shipped.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage
Microsoft's "Try Visual Studio 2008" page
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/aa700831.aspx
Links:
CraigN's blog:
http://craign.net/2007/11/19/visual-studio-2008-released/#comment-248
Somaregar's blog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2007/11/19/visual-studio-2008-and-net-framework-3-5-shipped.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage
Microsoft's "Try Visual Studio 2008" page
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/aa700831.aspx
Sunday 18 November 2007
Intro
Hi all, and welcome to my tech blog.
I'm going to the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Jumpstart DevChat in Bryanston, Johannesburg on Monday (19 November 2007.) Who knows, maybe I'll see some of you there...
I'm going to the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Jumpstart DevChat in Bryanston, Johannesburg on Monday (19 November 2007.) Who knows, maybe I'll see some of you there...
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