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Are we still talking about Stored Procedures vs. Dynamic SQL?

Rob Howard and Frans Bouma still are. And I guess, I am now too. Let's summarize a few of the facts from these counter points: Any form of pre-compilation or cached query plan arguments are moot betweem SQL and Procs. Rob has some outdated information Read More...

The Code Room: Episode 3 - Breaking into Las Vegas

It's the good guys vs. the bad guys, fighting over millions of dollars. Could this happen to you? Maybe it already has. http://www.thecoderoom.com/vegas/ Read More...

Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server Seminar across Canada

In November, 2005, Microsoft launched Visual Studio 2005, a major new release of its developer tools environment, and the foundation of Microsoft platform development for the next few years. In addition, this marked our entry into the lifecycle tools Read More...

VSLive 2006 Toronto Dates announced

Not sure this is news to most of you but VSLive is making another trip to Toronto again this year April 24-27th, 2006. It's back at the Toronto Congress Centre out by the airport again (I have mixed emotions about that one). Anyway, make sure to check Read More...

How Do I Revert a Changest in Team Foundation Source Control?

This question came up in our VSTS for Developers Training Course in Toronto this week. One of my students wanted to know how to undo or rollback a checkin, something you could do in Visual Source Safe. Unfortunately this feature was cut for V1 of Team Read More...

Vancouver Launch of Visual Studio and SQL Server 2005

I'm in British Columbia for a few days for the Vancouver stop of the Canadian Launch of Visual Studio and SQL Server 2005. They are expecting a great turnout - should be one of the largest MS events in town in recent memory. Last night we had a User Group Read More...

Migrating ASP.NET 1.x sites to ASP.NET 2.0

One of the questions we got during the Q&A of the Ottawa VS Launch yesterday was around problems in migrating ASP.NET applications from 2002/2003 to 2005. The Web Platform Team has put together a nice step-by-step guide that covers some best practices Read More...

Hello 2.0

This past week we saw the final bits of SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 get shipped up to MSDN Subscriber Downloads. Next week we'll see the official launch of these same products to the rest of the world, ushered in with a rolling thunder of launch Read More...

Microsoft LINQ Resources for September 20th

Community Thoughts Werner Moise has been “reflecting” on LINQ and the more time he spends, the more he's realizing “how well thought out and practical it is”. He has some excellent points. Dinesh wants to know how you feel about Read More...

Integration VSTS with Project Server

This article on gotdotnet explains in 67 pages of detail how you can integrate VSTS with Project Server for two way automatic synchronization of work items. Nice. Read More...
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