VisualSVN Supports Visual Studio 2010, Win7 64-Bit

Curious about the future “proofness” of VisualSVN I fired off an email to support. They were kind enough to get back to me with this…
VisualSVN will officially support Visual Studio 2010 as soon as Visual Studio 2010 will be officially released. We also are going to provide experimental support for the CTP versions of Visual [...]

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Sequential GUID’s – 50% Performance Difference?

While listening to another .NET Rocks podcast this morning I caught mention of Sequential GUID’s, a feature introduced in Sql Server 2005. Given the use of GUID’s as primary keys I thought this a useful piece of information.
What are the performance improvement of Sequential Guid over standard Guid? – Stack Overflow.

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Virtualization and Team Foundation Server Downloads

The latest podcast I’ve had the privilege of listening to during my commute was another .NET Rocks! Radio TFS home run, this time discussing hyper-v and virtualization with Brian Randell. Among other things Brian maintains the virtual machine images provided by Microsoft that allow you to trial Team Foundation Server using a fully functional [...]

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta Download

Somehow I missed the VS 2010 Beta getting released a couple days ago…
It’s the next gen of next-gen applications. Download the Visual Studio 2010 Professional and Team System Betas and see for yourself how they’ve been designed inside and out to give you every advantage in creating groundbreaking applications — faster and easier than ever.
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Talend – Open source data integration

As Rob keeps mentioning, we have some large data integration challenges facing us. Perhaps this could help? I’ll update the post once I’ve had a chance to use it, and you can’t beat the price! (Free/Open-source)
Talend’s flagship product, Talend Open Studio, is the most open, innovative and powerful data integration solution on the market today.
Provided [...]

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Setting Up Subversion Externals With TortoiseSVN

Instructions including screenshots for setting the svn:externals property using TortoiseSVN. This allows multiple repositories to be open and used in a single Visual Studio instance using VisualSVN. Slick stuff, so far this is working really well for us.
Just a tip I spent some time on figuring out: Found information today on how to use TortoiseSVN [...]

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Sybase working to improve NHibernate support | Elegant Code

NHibernate keeps looking more and more like the enterprise .NET solution to choose…
But support in NHibernate for Sybase is not great. The basics work but some of the more advanced features are not implemented at all or are done poorly. Fortunately we have an excellent relationship with our vendor and have had for many years. [...]

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PreMagination » Mutual Construction: The Relation Between Software & Globalization

A little paper I wrote this weekend regarding globalization and software. It’s heavily based on Jan Aart Scholte’s “Globalization: A Critical Introduction” and the definitions and discussions therein, but perhaps its of more general interest too.
The history of computer software as a fundamental part of Information Technology is tightly coupled with modern globalization. Defined by [...]

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Release It with Michael Nygard | Software Engineering Radio

This was a fantastic interview that covered a lot of topics I hadn’t really considered before. For example, how to write software that best meets not only the functional requirements of the project, but also the long-term operational requirements. Michael’s book has gone into my Amazon wishlist!
This episode is a discussion with Michael Nygard about [...]

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VS2008 AJAX Profiling Extensions

This looks fun, I’d like a chance to give it a go sometime.
Today, the team released Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 AJAX Profiling Extensions – a new power tool to measure the performance of the portions of web applications that execute JavaScript inside the web browser.
VS2008 AJAX Profiling Extensions

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