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VBUG Conference Slides
By Phoenix www.phoenix-vb.net
Here is the correct link for my conference slides - www.phoenix-vb.net/phoenix.ppt
Feel free to email me here
Phoenix
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10/26/2006 11:44:27 AM
VBUG Conference
By Phoenix www.phoenix-vb.net
At the VBUG conference I posed the question
Is
this the dawning of the age of the Smart Client for internal applications?
I described that there was a pattern emerging with the developments in Hardware, software
and application model. I have discovered that as a programming model reached the point
where it get disproportionately expensive to add scalability or function then along
comes a ... [ read more ]
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9/28/2006 8:46:12 AM
learning VS 2005 and SQL Server 2005 from scratch
This is the last of these Blogs about me learning VB and SQL Server 2005. I no longer
qualify as a beginner, but the quest for knowledge goes on - building on what I have
learnt over the last 7 months - "The end of the beginning"
I am now going to focus on desktop/'smart client' application writing. This is where
I came from back in the summer of '91 when VB1 was dropped onto my desk That was the
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9/6/2006 9:54:20 AM
So, are you looking to make your applications available worldwide? Or just sticking
to the English language because it's easy? Well, Guy Smith-Ferrier's new book tells
you all the savvy you need to know on .NET Internationalization.
Sample Chapter Attached.
Enjoy...
You can order here www.compman.co.uk
Smith-Ferrier_ch03.pdf
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9/1/2006 8:15:23 AM
learning VS 2005 and SQL Server 2005 from scratch
By Phoenix www.phoenix-vb.net
1 st September
I have been investigating the use of SQL Everywhere. It seems on the surface to be
a good way to go for a small data repository. So let me analyse the product.
1. SQL Everywhere is a development of SQL Server CE - the same functionality as SQL
Mobile but with the plattform restrictions removed. The full product name of SQL Server
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By Phoenix www.phoenix-vb.net
17 th August
Since
coming back from holiday I have been working on how to demonstrate Webservices. The
content I have already decided on, the requirements needed some more careful thinking
I feel that that it would be nice to demonstrate a use of Web Services using Windows
Forms. To me the way ahead for an organisation's internal applications is through
Windows applications where the functional richness can be leveraged. So in order to
get a quick s ... [ read more ]
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By Phoenix www.phoenix-vb.net
27th July
My intent is to describe how I have gone about developing web services using VS2005 and SQL Server 2005.My first efforts have been using VS2005 – I will get to SQL Server 2005 later.
Web service technology is well documented – but I have found very little about how to go about developing web services, tools needed and coding techniques.
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By Phoenix www.phoenix-vb.net
17 th July
I
started to write up about Webservices for my website when I realised that I had followed
the model in other books - dropping straight into code. This model is one that I find
difficult to follow - I am trying to understand the principles behind the
topic when suddenly there is a large lump of code that I have to understand. I find
this distracts me - I get stuck into understanding the code and then realise that
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7/12/2006 6:07:24 AM
Defeating the Hacker
By Phoenix www.phoenix-vb.net
11 th July
Today I was at the VBUG security meeting at Microsoft, Reading where I had the pleasure
of listening to Robert Schifreen talk about Hacking, Hackers and protecting yourself
against them. Robert has a very impressive and authorative background in hacking and
security issues - see here for more detail http://www.legalitforum.com/ipi/legalitforumv2/index.jsp?pageid=litf_bulletin_015
Robert gave a ... [ read more ]
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7/6/2006 2:26:40 PM
Those damn fine chaps over at Red Gate have re-engineered their Simple-Talk site to
be a haven for SQL Server and VS.NET developers. You should get yourself over their
and take a look, the site has an excellent new look and feel and the content is superb.
Simple-Talk is dedicated to providing you with the highest quality news, technical
insight and opinion (alongside the odd bull-headed rant about beer ;)), and the site
is growing in popularity. It now reaches 80K subscri ... [ read more ]
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7/3/2006 4:56:27 PM
So, we have an announcement from Microsoft of the latest member to join the SQL Server
2005 stable. The new 'everywhere' edition is similar to Express, yet it fills a place
so obvious that it makes great sense.
The everywhere edition, is a small footprint version of SQL Server. In fact this version
can be, and was meant to be, embedded in an application. So, it's the 2005 edition
of SQL Server Mobile.
Where SQL Server runs as a service and provides multi-user funct ... [ read more ]
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7/2/2006 7:33:12 AM
The Diary of a Long Voyage - learning VS 2005 and SQL Server 2005 from scratch
By Phoenix www.phoenix-vb.net
2 nd July
This week has been given over mostly to being a father. My daughter has just taken
a job in north London - she is a teacher - which requires her to move away from the
family home. So I have been the chauffeur/advisor in getting her set up. This is the
first time I have really got a close look at the housing market for over 20 years.
As a t ... [ read more ]
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6/25/2006 8:23:34 AM
The Diary of a Long Voyage - learning VS 2005 and SQL Server 2005 from scratch
By Phoenix www.phoenix-vb.net
25 th June
I have started on the process of learning all about Web Services. This first start
naturally is to search out all the material that I can find, then read, filter and
correlate it. As one of the technologies that consumes Web Services is ASP.NET security
is a major concern. I have two large books on ASP.NET and Web Service security, so
when Christian Mitchell f ... [ read more ]
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By Phoenix www.phoenix-vb.net
17th June
I attended he MEDC conference in Nice to learn more about programming Mobile devices.
I was pleasantly surprised to find out just how easy it is to programme these devices
just using VS2005. All the tools are there in the package (but not in VS2005 Express)
Mobile SQL Server 2005 is used as the database. The great feature is that all the
development can be done straight off the desktop without even owning a Mobile de ... [ read more ]
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The Diary of a Long Voyage -
learning VS 2005 and SQL Server
2005 from scratch
By Phoenix www.phoenix-vb.net
22ndMay – 30thMay
This
has been the week where work gets in the way of pleasure J My
work project is just about to go live and the project manager has been round asking
for documentation that will be out of date the week after the project goes live. ‘Won’t
a dynamic website do?’ I ask – ‘Nope, I ... [ read more ]
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5/21/2006 7:36:05 AM
The Diary of a Long Voyage - learning VS 2005 and SQL Server 2005 from scratch
By Phoenix www.phoenix-vb.net
16thMay - 21stMay
I have completed my typed dataset generator and placed the project on my website.
This has gone better than I expected - to generate the .xsd files for the AdventureWorks
database took less than 10 seconds for the 70 tables. The application also works fine
as an external tool for VS2005. This means that you can start the tool up from within
Vi ... [ read more ]
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By Phoenix www.phoenix-vb.net
9thMay – 15thMay
I am a strong believer in auto generating code whenever I can – so over the last week
I have been writing a utility to create typed datasets. The standard way is within
Visual Studio, add to a new dataset item
(typing in the correct name), then dragging the dataset from the server explorer onto
the dataset designer. Doesn’t sound to bad – but I wouldn’t fancy trying this with
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The Diary of a Long Voyage - learning VS 2005 and SQL Server 2005 from scratch
By Phoenix www.phoenix-vb.net
2nd May - 8thMay
That is the first stage of my journey done - I have read the first two 'Beginning'
books and have become comfortable with VB2005 and SQL Server 2005. Now I am moving
on to more advanced reading along with some 'real' programming. By real I mean programming
for the commercial world - applications for my employer. As the follow on from the
Beginn ... [ read more ]
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Those fine (and damn clever!) chaps over at Red-Gate Software have made available
a beta of their latest product SQL Prompt. It is due to be launched May 2006, but
you can download the beta now and give it a good old test.
THis product is incredibly exciting because it provides something I know we all have
wanted, Intellisense ® style word completion for MS Query Analyzer, VS.NET
2003/2005 and SQL Server Management Studio.
So, if you want to take a look, get ... [ read more ]
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The Diary of a Long Voyage - learning VS 2005 and SQL Server 2005 from scratch
By Phoenix
www.phoenix-vb.net
> < http://www.phoenix-vb.net/
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1st May
I am now going to be focussed on the use of SQL Server 2005 - I have been reading
the book 'Beginning SQL 2005 Programming' - link <
http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/productCd-0764584332.html
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The Diary of a Long Voyage - learning VS 2005 and SQL Server 2005 from scratch
By Phoenix www.phoenix-vb.net
18th April - 24th April
This week has been a week where I have been working hard but getting little done.
I bought a webcam to create an optical centre finder for my workshop. I have read
an article in 'Model Engineering Workshop' which described how to make it. The engineering
side was good - however the webcam software was a lash up of freeware and jpegs etc
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4/25/2006 6:59:18 AM
The Diary of a Long Voyage - learning VS 2005 and SQL Server 2005 from scratch
By Phoenix www.phoenix-vb.net
11th April - 17th April
Now that I am ready to start programming I need an application to write. My initial
thoughts were that it has to be a simple one otherwise I would get bogged down with
code writing and learning little new. Fortunately in VS2005 there is a lot of pre-written
code which is available through the Snippet tool. I had a look through this
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The Diary of a Long Voyage - learning VS 2005 and SQL Server 2005 from scratch
By Phoenix www.phoenix-vb.net
3rd April - 10th April
Off to sunny Malta for my holiday. Absolutely fantastic weather, absolutely fantastic
people. Temperature was about 20-22c. However the jobsworths at BA spoilt the trip
home. I chose to get a flight from Malta to Marseilles, change planes and fly on to
Gatwick. Plane from Malta was a little late, late arrival of wheelchair then delayed
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The Diary of a Long Voyage - learning VS 2005 and SQL Server 2005 from scratch
By Phoenix www.phoenix-vb.net
27th March - 2nd April
This has been an eventful week - unfortunately mostly misfortunes. The week started
well with my first two books arriving but then the downhill slide started with my
wife breaking a bone in her foot. Good timing darling - we are going on holiday to
Malts for a week on the 4th April - and she will be mostly unable to get around. Fortunately
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20th March
Installed the Adventure Works databases - these are the new sample databases for 2005.
Northwind seems to have been retired.
The samples are available here:
Link
On this page are the 'standard' SQL Server sample plus the Adventure works installs.
When running the Adventure Works install the database is created - but not attached
to the SQL server - so it is not available through the replacement for Enterprise
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15th
March
OK so I do know some
VB and SQL. Back in '91 I was (easily) persuaded to stop programming in C on my SUN
SPARC2 and move onto this new fangled Visual Basic that had just been delivered by
Microsoft. That was the start of my long association with VB, with Sybase/SQL Server
coming along a few years later.
Well I got to VB release
6 when my past caught up with me - back to SUN and JAVA for a couple of years. This
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Now this is interesting, Tech-Ed Europe has moved, both time and place. Firstly we
are back in Barcelona, but that's probably a good job because the date has also moved
to November, 7-10th 2006. Even more interesting is that IT Forum, normally held in
Denmark is in the same place 4 days later from the 14-17 November 2006.
So, what do we read from this and INTO this? Well having both events in the same place
means that maybe more people will stay over those 4 days and do b ... [ read more ]
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1/18/2006 2:52:51 PM
No sooner than we get VB 8 or VB.NET 2005, than those guys in Redmond are whipping
up excitement about VB 9, which will be part of the Visual Studio version currently
named Orcas.
In this link to MSDN TV, Paul Vick and Amanda Silver talk about LINQ, or Language
Independent Query. This technology is still at least a year away, but it is interesting
just to see what is coming.
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8/21/2005 8:50:20 AM
Here we are on an ever shortening precipice that is the time before the next version
of our life enhancing development tools are released.
To accompany this, Bill Vaughn has provided an article on converting VB6 ADO code
to all singing all dancing ADO.NET code.
If this is something of interest then you'll find it at http://msdn.microsoft.com/VBasic/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnadonet/html/migratingtoadonet.asp
Enjoy.
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8/10/2005 12:29:00 PM
So, all you SOA guru's out there, here's a good one for you.
You have 10 days to build a website that generates dynamic content from a SQL Server
database. The general idea is to have a data access layer that returns XML and for
the page engine to provide XSLT to put this content into some web pages.
So how should the data access be done? Datareaders, datasets, XMLDatareaders
? Can you help?
To get the full story get yourself over to http://www.mybusines ... [ read more ]
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7/31/2005 8:25:15 PM
Has anyone out there made the leap to Windows XP x64 Edition and tried to install
Visual Studio 6? Well it seems that x64 doesn't like service packs 5 and 6 for VS6.
This wouldn't be such an issue except that the help page you are then re-directed
to doesn't exist and the whole of the Microsoft knowledgebase doesn't seem to have
any information on this whole situation.
So, take this as a heads-up. If you still need VB6 SP5/6 then be careful in your transition
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This sounds like really interesting technology. A true command shell for the windows
platform, or to be more specific a .net platform shell.
For a really interesting heads up, get yourself over to channel9 at http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=26795#26795 .
Jeffrey Snover will tell you all about it, and maybe by the time you get there, there
will be a video showing it in action. You can even sign up for a beta if you listen
to his video, he tells you wher ... [ read more ]
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We have some great news regarding the wefly247.net project. Microsoft are organizing
a Web Cast on Friday 29th July 2005 at 16:30 GMT.
Now, you have the opportunity to be part of this great and interesting event. IF you
haven't already got your VS2005 Beta 2 then get see the details at the end of
this blog and get signed up. Not only will you get the VS2005 Beta 2 you'll
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Does anyone out there use a development framework? By this I mean somethink along
the lines of Rocky Lhotka's CSLA.net or maybe even one of the bought-in ones like
Paul Sheriffs.
Are you interested in discussing your use of said frameworks? Bad and good. What works
and what doesn't.
Well I have used CSLA.net on and off since it was plain old CSLA. I am not an expert
with it and I only use the bits I need. It would be really good to get a line of discussion
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6/27/2005 1:33:30 PM
Well it seems that FREE customer support for Win2K ends on June 30th. So, are we going
to see the same hysteria that gripped the world when it thought that VB6 support was
being canned?
Probably not.
Just out of interest, is there anyone out there who has actually called Microsoft
for VB6 technical support, since free support ended?
Discuss...
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6/23/2005 1:26:36 PM
Here is an article that states that in the US, employers are no longer considering
certification status of a potential employee. What is important now is experience
over education, including even university education. So maybe it no longer matters
whether you are MCSD, MCDBA, CCNA or JPD.
Article is here http://shrinkster.com/66o
Discuss.
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Apologies. please read Tech-ed 2005 where it says VBUG 2005. The typing gremlins got ahead of me.
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6/20/2005 7:34:43 AM
Are you going to Tech-Ed? Well there will be some VBUG representatives at VBUG 2005
and if you want to come and see the latest 247 project in action, come along to the
weFly247 booth.
This year, Tech-Ed looks like it's going to be a significant event, mainly because
of the new products that are coming along. We are looking forward to a great event.
We will look forward to seeing you there.
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Want to win a Smart
Roadster valued at over £15,000? Here's your chance - with our smart client competition.
All you have to do is set up your MSDN Connection profile, answer a few questions
about smart client application development - and this great prize could be yours.
Plus, we're giving you the chance to win again with even more great prizes: an Alienware
PC, a Bluetooth enabled satellite navigation system, and 5 Axim X50v Pocket PCs.
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6/10/2005 1:45:13 PM
We are looking to put together a central VBUG directory of contractors. So, if you
are a contractor, and you want to be involved, let Christian know your areas of speciality,
preferred area's of work and I guess a minimum daily rate that you'll get out of bed
for :).
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6/10/2005 1:33:42 PM
Our good friend, Rob MacDonald has sent through this weblog that has attracted the
attentions of some real development world personalities.
http://grumpyoldprogrammer.myblogsite.com/blog
Do you know of a good blog, one you read regularly? Let us know, we will tell everyone
else, and give you the credit for finding it!!.
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6/10/2005 1:26:04 PM
Hi all,
We are back blogging after a short recess. VBUG has a new phone number that is in
use with immediate effect. So, update your contacts with the following number 08701
993666. We also have a fabby new phone system with music when you are on hold.
speak to you soon.
The VBUG Team
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