Multi-Targeting Support with VS2010 & .NET 4.0

This is a great link I can pass on to the people responsible for maintaining the servers who were worried (hey, I was worried too) about installing a beta version of the .NET framework next to production apps using non-beta versions. (For those of you not already familiar with Scott Guthrie, he’s a a Corporate [...]

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The State of Team System (YAP)

Yet Another Podcast, (YAP) talking not just about Team System but about effective, predictable software process and the tools that can be used to enact one. (Primarily TFS, but a few others were mentioned.) This discussion, with the issues that were highlight, only further emphasizes to me the definite advantage of using the right process [...]

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Is Software Development Too Complex? (YAP)

Yet Another Podcast, (YAP) this time about the complexity of software development, the different types of complexity of consider, and an all-around interesting conversation.
Panel: Is Software Development Too Complex?
Recorded live at devLink in Nashville, Tennessee. Billy Hollis, Kathleen Dollard, Jim Holmes, and Josh Holmes (no relation) discuss the issue of the complexity of software development. [...]

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Decompiling .NET

I was just reminded myself how easy and useful it is to decompile .NET assemblies, and thought I’d pass on the favor.
.NET Reflector will examine the IL in a DLL and display it as C#, VB.NET, etc (though this may not be very useful if the assembly has been obfuscated) and the Reflector.FileDisassembler plugin for [...]

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The Data Mining Renaissance

Nice high-level overview of data mining and where the industry is headed. And the comments were just as illuminating as the article itself. From the information given here it would seem it’s worth seriously exploring MapReduce hosted in Amazon’s cloud.
We are in the midst of a data mining renaissance.
Traditionally, data warehousing implementations were large, complex [...]

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Oregon Student Transcript Exchange (OSTX)

Sounds like the Oregon DATA Project is up to all sorts of clever shenanigans. I have to wonder if OSTX was created as an interim solution until a more widely recognized standard can be brought into play (SIF?) or if it is intended to stand on its own and possibly expand its user base? (Guess [...]

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ReSharper, VisualSVN, and GhostDoc – Happy Productive Days for VS2010!

Just got an email from VisualSVN regarding Visual Studio 2010…
Hello!
We have released VisualSVN 1.7.4 that provides an experimental support for the current beta of Visual Studio 2010.
The only known issue is that QuickDiff feature is currently unavailable for Visual Studio 2010. We will fix that in the upcoming releases.
Could you please download the latest version [...]

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“Too many table names in the query.” ADO.NET Data Services

Another day, another Data Services issue. This time the error message was “Too many table names in the query. The maximum allowable is 256.” Turns out this is caused by my organization’s use of Sql Server 2005 rather than Sql Server 2008. Unfortunately, it’s not very feasible to reduce the number of tables being used [...]

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Does LINQ Support Composable “OR Queries”? (NOPE!)

Seems like any direction I turn, if I try to get very clever I hit a wall with ADO.NET Data Services.
It looks like Linq to ADO.Net Data Services doesn’t support expressions/predicate builder (see comments on Cameron MacFarland’s post for details), so this wouldn’t work for this situation – might just have to wait for Linq [...]

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Microsoft OneApp Framework

Framework for seamlessly offloading processing/memory/storage/etc to the cloud for hardware-limited devices? (Phones) Oh, I like! Looks like they’re trying to cram a smartphone experience onto a featurephone, but what about cramming a much richer experience onto a smartphone?
Who said Microsoft’s mobile strategy has to be limited to Windows Mobile? Redmond has just announced OneApp, a [...]

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