Microsoft UK has pulled together a great set of on-demand and live webinars to help you get to grips with SQL Server 2012. Enjoy! NB: You will need to be a registered partner on the Microsoft Partner Network to take advantage of these. Upcoming Live Technical Webinars: Monthly Webinar series on SQL Server 2012 delivered… [Read more…]
September 2, 2011
While pulling together this post on the August release of the Windows Azure Tools I noted that the ASP.NET MVC 3 template included “the new universal ASP.Net providers that support SQL Azure”. Which made me pause and think … “What universal ASP.NET Providers?” Looks like their existence completely passed me by Scott Hanselman summarised the… [Read more…]
August 31, 2011
The next release of Microsoft SQL Server, codename “Denali”, will be the last release to support OLE DB. OLE DB will be supported for 7 years from launch, the life of Denali support, to allow you a large window of opportunity for changing your applications before the deprecation. This deprecation applies to the Microsoft SQL… [Read more…]
August 24, 2011
The Microsoft SQL Server team has been interacting on a regular basis with developers and users in the form of surveys. If you have 15mins spare and would like to do your bit to help shape the roadmap for SQL Server then please pop over to http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22CS45XT9FE/ And… My own simple one question version if… [Read more…]
August 24, 2011
SQL Server “Denali” is at CTP3 – and would therefore very much welcome feedback. SQL Azure continues an aggressive cycle of release - and would therefore very much welcome feedback. Which is why we have https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/Feedback. A great place to give feedback and to to see what others care about. For SQL Azure (and the… [Read more…]
June 7, 2010
Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink short answer: Quite probably, as SQL Azure is very similar to SQL Server longer answer: Object Relational Mappers (ORMs) that work with SQL Server are likely but not guaranteed to work with SQL Azure. The differences between the RDBMS versions are small – but may cause… [Read more…]
May 27, 2010
Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink I had a really fun evening doing “my final” EF 4.0 session last night (26th May 2010) at GL.NET based out of Gloucester (although secretly I made it into a IronRuby and Windows Azure session). They are a great crowd and Jimmy makes for a fantastic… [Read more…]
May 17, 2010
Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink Last week (12th May 2010) I did a session in the city on lot of the new .NET 4.0 Stuff. My demo code and links below. Code Parallel demos http://gist.github.com/364522 C# 4.0 new features http://gist.github.com/403826 EF4 Links Entity Framework 4 Resources http://bit.ly/ef4resources Entity Framework Team Blog… [Read more…]
April 15, 2010
Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink [I will do some longer posts around my sessions when I get back from holiday next week] Big thanks to all those who attended my 3 sessions at TechDays this week (April 13th and 14th, 2010). I really enjoyed both days and watched some great session… [Read more…]
March 25, 2010
Time for another guest post (check out others in the series), this time bringing together the world of mocking with the world of Entity Framework. A big thanks to Moses for agreeing to do this. Unit Testing Entity Framework Dependent Code using TypeMock Isolator by Muhammad Mosa Introduction Unit testing data access code in my… [Read more…]
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