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1/21/2009 10:35:00 PM
There are times you need to resolver relative URL like "~/my/link.aspx" into ablsolute and you don't want to use the Page context or can't easily access it.
Rick Strahl posted a great blog entry on ResolveUrl() without Page where he implements his own static ResolveUrl() method.
I found that System.Web namespace has method VirtualPathUtility.ToAbsolute that does exactly the trick.
You don't even need declare VirtualPathUtility class in VB for it is static.
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Serge B. via
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9/30/2008 3:11:00 AM
To highlight code in your forum, blog and wiki posts wrap code into the folowing tags (example below is for VB.NET Code)
[code language= "VB.NET" ][/code]
Languages supported (in alphabetical order):
C
C++
C#
COBOL
Eiffel
Fortan
Haskell
HTML
Java
Javascript
Mercury
MSIL
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
SQL
Visual Basic
VBScript
VB.NET
XML
Visual Basic example:
Public Sub CreateMyMultilineTextBox()
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9/30/2008 1:00:00 AM
While looking for line-wrapping solution for syntax highlighted code blocks on the new vbCity community web site and had (once again) to search for the right <pre> tag CSS attributes that'd wrap code in all browsers. So, I ran at this great post that summarizes it all nicely and in one post:
Wrapping Text Inside Pre Tags - http://www.longren.org/2006/09/27/wrapping-text-inside-pre-tags/
Be sure to scroll down to the end of the article as Tyler keeps updating it with new attrib ... [ read more ]
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7/2/2008 8:39:00 AM
vbCity turned 10 years last week - pretty darn long time! I still pretty much refuse to admit I've been running it for THAT long :)
I posted this a week ago in the vbCity forums and also wanted to share via the blog.
Today,
June 25th, 2008
vbCity turns 10 years old!
It is hard to believe that this day 10 (!) years ago I have uploaded first page to host free PrettyCode.Print tool folks in the comp.lang.basic.visual newsgroup asked m ... [ read more ]
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2/10/2008 5:35:00 PM
If you get depressed after looking at the standard Visual Studio coloring theme for years, try changing it. Scott Hanselman posted a gallery of ready to use themes to any taste - http://www.hanselman.com/blog/VisualStudioProgrammerThemesGallery.aspx
I like Jeff Atwood's ( CodingHorror ) scheme most - which one do you like?
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Serge Baranovsky via
SergeB (Serge Baranovsky)
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2/6/2008 12:04:00 AM
CodeIt.Right is finally finished after about 3 years in the making. My 7 years long dream come true. The tool it out! Cheers! (I truly believe that code analysis coupled with automatic refactoring will change the way .NET developer teams and solo developers work!)
Read this blog post to find out about CodeIt.Right and the future plans for the product - http://submain.com/blog/CodeItRightV10Released.aspx
Through February 20th, 2008 you can leverage of the introductory pricing on Co ... [ read more ]
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Serge Baranovsky via
SergeB (Serge Baranovsky)
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5/21/2007 6:25:00 PM
Scott Hanselman is one of the most humble .NET community leaders I have met. And althought I'm not as expressive as Mark Miller I have huge deal of respect for Scott as a person and professional.
Please join me in helping Team Hanselman to reach their goal on a great cause - Fight Diabetes !
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TeamHanselmanAndDiabetesWalk2007.aspx
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5/21/2007 6:09:00 PM
This month we are having biggest giveaway ever at vbCity - 50(!) licenses of ApexSQL Code to the top forum posters in May.
For details see » forum post «
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Serge Baranovsky via
SergeB (Serge Baranovsky)
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4/10/2007 1:38:00 AM
Paul Vick - architect on Visual Basic Team at Microsoft has posted what is it that he actually does . Very interesting reading!
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Serge Baranovsky via
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12/18/2006 2:47:00 AM
I've been working on this for some time now but finally I'm happy to announce we have obtained exclusive distribution rights to the latest version of Steve Sartain's C#/VB .NET Coding Guidelines 100+ page ebook, and are offering free download .
More info - http://submain.com/blog/FreeCVBNETCodingGuidelinesEbookDownload.aspx
C#/VB .NET Coding Guidelines home page - http://submain.com/guidelines
Download - http://submain.com/download.aspx?product=guidelines
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Serge Baranovsky via
SergeB (Serge Baranovsky)
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11/15/2006 3:08:00 AM
I have been working for over two months setting up new community site http://dev.net.ua - Ukrainian Developer Community. It went live on November 1st. You may not believe it but dev.net.ua is first Ukrainian developer community site, for Microsoft technologies anyway.
My apologies if I was not very responsive - you know I do these things in between my other jobs..
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Serge Baranovsky via
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9/28/2006 1:52:00 AM
vbfeeds.com subscribers may have noticed the site was down for about 24 hours. Hopefully it wasn't much of inconvenience.
VB Feeds was running on SQL 2005 Beta 2 which expired in this month. I knew that's coming but as usual many things that required immediate attention pushed moving VB Feeds to another box with SQL 2005 RTM down the list.
It is done now - I moved the site on Monday night and it is running fine.
I apologize for the downtime.
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7/31/2006 6:19:00 PM
Those of you who are subscribed to our VBFeeds have only seen one side of the coin ;-) Today the other side has become available - Steve Smith launched similar C# Feeds service:
Today CSharpFeeds officially goes live. This is a pet project of mine and Gregg Stark’s based on Serge’s VBFeeds.com site and its source code (thanks to Serge for letting me see the source!). VBFeeds is a great place to find just VB information from the top VB people, moderated ... [ read more ]
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6/16/2006 1:30:00 AM
Today's braking news - BillG announced he is stepping down from his full-time role (no, that is not two weeks notice, over two years that is :) Gates will remain the chair and will dedicate all of his time to charitable work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Robert Scoble posted just a couple of lines but we all know Bill's decision is driven by Scoble's announce last week about leaving Microsoft for Silicon Valley based video blogging and podcasting startup ... [ read more ]
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5/22/2006 4:54:00 PM
I've been following the Web 2.0 buzz since August 2005 and until recently from the t3echnology prospective it was primarily associated with PHP and Ruby On Rails . Since the introduction of Atlas things are changing! A very well written article:
Top 13 reasons to CONSIDER the Microsoft platform for Web 2.0 development
[via Brad Abrams ]
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5/22/2006 4:16:00 PM
This one has been coming back at me for some time. I've installed one of those Vista Skins for XP over 6 months ago - yes, I can blame Stuat for that :) and then replaced Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 with the RTM version when it was released early in November of last year. Since then I've been having to live with the funky looking dialog windows (some of them) in Visual Studio
It looks like VS is confusing the system font and uses that ugly Fixedsys instead :( Ughh!
But it appea ... [ read more ]
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Serge Baranovsky via
SergeB (Serge Baranovsky)
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5/22/2006 3:47:00 AM
vbCity is part of a contest with lots of valuable prizes! » read more «
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5/21/2006 11:22:00 PM
This one is very handy and yet not very intuitive - I keep forgetting it and search every time I got to replace a field value when editing table content in Enterprise Manager. Posting it here, so I don't have to search again and also this may help you too :)
When you manually update table data in SQL Server Enterprise Manager press Ctrl+0 to insert a NULL value.
This works with SQL 2005 Management Studio as well.
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Serge Baranovsky via
SergeB (Serge Baranovsky)
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5/15/2006 8:41:00 PM
We have released CodeIt.Once - refactoring tool for .NET developers.
CodeIt.Once allows so save big on the time you spend writing and maintaining your source code. It also helps when you need to modify or reesign your existing .NET application - saves you hours of tedious search-and-replace-try-if-it-still-runs-or-broken-start-all-over-again... You know what I mean - we all have done that...
First version of the CodeIt.Once includes 14 “auto-m ... [ read more ]
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Serge Baranovsky via
SergeB (Serge Baranovsky)
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5/6/2006 2:35:00 AM
Haven't updated you on VBFeeds.com status in a while - my apologies.
The feeds were added recently into the aggregation list - Microsoft XML Team's Blog (they have regular posts about VB and LINQ) and Brian Beckman - great posts on VB9 and LINQ.
And just last night I added Geoff Appleby's Blog - Geoff is VB.NET MVP and a nice fella all around :) - there is plenty of VB and .NET stuff on his blog.
Hopefully this helps to keep you connected ;-)
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4/19/2006 5:47:00 PM
Just hot off the presses - as announced by Dan Fernandez , the Lead Product Manager for Visual Studio Express, all Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions including Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual J#, Visual C++, and Visual Web Developer Express will be free permanently !
This is great news while well expected after the promotional move last year to make the VS Express Editions free for a year and considering Microsoft's direction to provide easier ways for VB6 developers to migrate to .NE ... [ read more ]
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Serge Baranovsky via
SergeB (Serge Baranovsky)
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3/5/2006 11:02:00 PM
Recent article by Mike Gunderloy on SearchVB.com -
VB developers: Second class no more
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Serge Baranovsky via
SergeB (Serge Baranovsky)
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12/19/2005 1:48:00 AM
vbfeeds.com RSS was broken for the last few days... Thanks to Richard Laniel for pointing that out. I was too busy in the last week and didn't have time to read my Bloglines.
What happened is there was one post that is over 90K and it turned the RSS feed over 200K - I fixed the feed by removing the offending post.
So, vbfeeds.com RSS is back and working fine ... for now :) And I added on my list to implement the feed/size validation.
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11/15/2005 3:22:00 PM
Mike Murach & Associates has just published VB edition of their ASP.NET 2.0 book - Murach's ASP.NET 2.0 Upgrader's Guide: VB Edition
They have Chapter 3 "Master Pages" up for grabs here - http://www.murach.com/books/ugvb/index.htm - if you are not familiar with the new ASP.NET Master Pages concept be sure to check the sample chapter - cool stuff!
This book assumes you are already familiar with ASP.NET 1.x
On a side note, other than the two books I mention ... [ read more ]
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Serge Baranovsky via
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10/27/2005 9:58:00 AM
As just announced by Soma Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 shipped today!
Read on...
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Serge Baranovsky via
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10/25/2005 9:40:00 AM
As found via Scoble Microsoft just released videos of Microsoft's recent developer conference (PDC05). These will be online only for six months :
http://microsoft.sitestream.com/PDC05/
( Update : This link requires Internet Explorer)
The session search on the page sucks - very confusing and basically unusable unless you have a list of the sessions handy.
Here is the trick - search sessions here
http://commnet.microsoftpdc.com/content/sessions.aspx
I'm still pissed that ... [ read more ]
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Serge Baranovsky via
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10/19/2005 3:44:00 AM
How many times did I mention lately I love ASP.NET 2.0 and VB2005? Not enough. Yet one more time – I absolutely love Whidbey!
So, I decided to make vbfeeds.com mobile-enabled so visitors could browse it on their mobile device.
In the past I would have a choice of setting up a virtual directory with mobile-only scripts or parse the browser HTTP_USER_AGENT request header and search for “Windows CE“, “PPC“, “Pocket IE“ and such. I didn't fancy eith ... [ read more ]
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10/18/2005 12:52:00 PM
There are two VB.NET e-Books available for free on Microsoft web site - I'm sure this was already blogged about but these books are a great help for developers learning VB.NET and those moving from VB6.0, so here we go:
Upgrading Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 to Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (Free, PDF) Complete guide to upgrading VB6 applications to VB.NET - VB6 and VB.NET differences, upgrading options, COM Interop, error handling, data access and more.
Introducing Visual Basic 2005 for Dev ... [ read more ]
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10/11/2005 4:15:00 AM
The latest verison of CodeIt.Once Refactoring tool - Release Candidate (build 147) for Visual Studio 2003 - is available for download now.
We have made quite a bit of performance optimization and bug fixes since the initial Relase Candidate build 115 last month:
improved performance loading solution on VS startup.
optimized memory use – removed unused types
changed exception handling engine – most errors now logged into a file and not displayed in a dialog box ... [ read more ]
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9/26/2005 5:21:00 AM
The idea of the new web site - vb:feeds - http://vbfeeds.com - was inspired by DelphiFeeds.com I stumbled upon last month.
So, I decided to build a web site that would syndicate select web feeds with Visual Basic/.NET related content. But I went further - all posts are screened for content and only the technical ones make it to http://vbfeeds.com . The approved content then is published on the site as well as exposed via a single web feed. Be sure you will not see on vb: ... [ read more ]
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9/26/2005 1:50:00 AM
Woohoo! Some exciting new to share! Better that the one I posted earlier today :)
Yes, Code Camp is finally coming to Seattle ! In just 4 weeks - Oct 22 & 23 as announced by Chris Kinsman
What I like about Code Camp idea is
its spirit - for developers and by developers
it is free - hard to beat this one ;)
timing - Saturday and Sunday - works perfect for me. I know that I will not have to change my plans re the Code Camp because of a travel or meeting at work.
When ... [ read more ]
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8/22/2005 2:58:00 PM
I'm sure this was picked up by every .NET blogger and their dog but in case you missed it...
Somesegar posted this morning about MS plan on Beta/RC releases of VS 2005 until the product launch in November.
So, for the next couple months we are going to see
Comminuty Technology Preview will be coming out in August. Hmm, I installed it last Friday, didn't realize it _will_ be coming out later this month. The August CTP rocks, btw! I enjoy it very much and it has most of the issues a ... [ read more ]
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8/15/2005 5:03:00 AM
As found via Brad Abrams there is new great book is coming out - Framework Design Guidelines : Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries by Brad Abrams and Krzysztof Cwalina dedicated specifically to Design Guidelines of Frameworks with .NET 2.0. I think the book will be good for .NET 1.1 as well.
The book is not out yet (September 14th) but I already pre-ordered it from Amazon :) I've been following both Brad's and Krzysztof's blogs and know the book is goi ... [ read more ]
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8/11/2005 5:51:00 AM
Do I make mistakes? Yes I do!
For a couple of years now the most embarrassing thing for our product web site SubMain.com was its design. When we were launching our first product two years ago I only had couple of nights to put together a web site. Mistake #1 - while we have put time for the Betas, bug fixing, etc, we should've not discounted the importance of the web site design and planned more time for that.
I said to myself back then "Don't worry it d ... [ read more ]
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8/11/2005 3:09:00 AM
With over 4 weeks to go I tell for sure this year PDC is going to be sold out very soon. Microsoft has reached their PDC registration goal and already pulled all online advertisement.
Over 7000 developers attended PDC in October 2003 and I will not be surprised if there will be even more this year.
I was impressed by the quality of the PDC sessions back in 2003. And was a little disappointed when reviewed preliminary sessions list couple of months ago. But not anymore!
Today I went to ... [ read more ]
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SergeB (Serge Baranovsky)
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8/7/2005 3:54:00 AM
Two phones that will run Windows Mobile 5.0 have been the biggest buzz/rumors in the last couple of weeks - Windows Mobile-powered Treo 670 (that's right, first non-Palm based Treo!) and HTC Wizard .
HTC Wizard looks really slick - it is about the same size as i-mate JAM but has got WiFi, GSM/GPRS/EDGE, a slide out keyboard and will run Windows Mobile 5.0. Now, that is something I would trade my i-mate JAM for! If the price is right though... I only wish T-Mobile USA ... [ read more ]
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8/7/2005 2:50:00 AM
10 comfortable reclining chairs will be located front row center in the PDC05 keynote room. Ten lucky attendees will be picked randomly.
More - http://blogs.msdn.com/pdc/archive/2005/08/04/447911.aspx
Let's see if I get one of the prime sits :) Most likely I'll be sitting somewhere in the back as I'm not a morning person to show up early and reserve good spot...
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8/7/2005 2:48:00 AM
Sean Mountcastle posted notes from Business for Geeks session - great reading for those who are starting up a microISV venture.
Business for Geeks notes
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Serge Baranovsky via
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8/1/2005 12:12:00 AM
First vbCity Postcard Wall is full! And I'm off to get another cork board for the postcards that are still on their way.
Current Postcard Wall photo
Thanks to all who sent the postcards!
If you are just going to send one, see the original thread for details and mailing address.
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Serge Baranovsky via
SergeB (Serge Baranovsky)
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7/21/2005 6:59:00 PM
Last week I posted about CodeIt.Once for VS 2003 Beta 2 download.
Today I'm glad to announce CodeIt.Once for VS 2005 Beta 2 build is available for download as well.
CodeIt.Once Beta 2 for Visual Studio 2003 and Visual Studio 2005 are currently available for download through our Beta Experience program . If you want download a copy for evaluation or to participate in Beta testing, fill out a simple form (name and email address) and we will contact yo ... [ read more ]
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7/21/2005 5:16:00 AM
My schedule allows me to go only to one conference this year. Although it was tempting to sign up for VS 2005 launch at DevConnections but PDC05 is still a better choice. (Thanks to Doug Seven for helping to make up my mind)
So, I went ahead and registered for PDC05 today. It is a much bigger event and is typically focused on future technology.
One of the sessions I will absolutely attend is Paul Vick's " Visual Basic: Future Directions in Language Innovati ... [ read more ]
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7/18/2005 6:34:00 PM
The latest DevCity.NET newsletter (July 15, 2005) is uploaded to the site. In this issue:
Diary of a .NET Newbie: Don't Quote Me
.NET Upgraders: Evolving to VB.NET. Part 5 - Creating YOUR Top 10 Reasons to Adopt Visual Basic .NET
.NET Upgraders: Disabling Ctrl+Alt+Del in Windows XP/2K using VB.NET
Blogs: Recent vbCity .NET Blog Entries
Cast Your Vote: .NET Developer's Journal 2004 Readers' Choice Awards
This newsletter contains includes regular .NET Pro ... [ read more ]
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7/15/2005 4:14:00 AM
It's been over two months since I announced the first Beta of CodeIt.Once . We took all that time to listen to your comments and suggestions, rework the user interface to introduce new option - there are two UI alternatives now - Wizard and Pro. And of course testing, bug fixing, more testing and more bug fixing :)
Today I'm happy to let you know that we have just released CodeIt.Once Beta 2 .
What's New in Beta 2 (build 1.0.76)
New Wizard style UI option
Enabled su ... [ read more ]
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7/13/2005 5:42:00 PM
I have SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 on my laptop for few months and every now and then I find my laptop to be very sluggish. In the task manager sqlservr.exe shows 98-99%.
It is only a week ago I found why that might happen and a workaround.
I noticed that SQL only eats up the CPU when I have SQL Server Management Studio loaded with a table open. Even when it is inactive for few days for some reason SQL goes nuts and hogs CPU at 99% for hours.
Workaround for this is to close the Mana ... [ read more ]
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7/13/2005 4:21:00 AM
I installed SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 on the vbCity web server machine (as new instance on the top of the default instance production SQL 2000). Some of the new scripts I'm putting together for both vbCity.com and DevCity.NET will be using SQL 2005 backend.
I absolutely love the new things SQL 2005 has to offer especially SQL cache, cache invalidation, XML data type and SQLCLR (managed SQL stored procedures). I already played with the latter and thinking about writing an article on tha ... [ read more ]
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7/13/2005 4:05:00 AM
I got bored with all skins installed for http://blogs.vbcity.com , so I went and found new .Text skin on .NET Monster - BlackSun , modified it a bit, installed on vbCity Blogs and now use for my blog :)
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