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January 2005 - Posts

• Bloggers Guide to BizTalk

  The latest version of The Bloggers Guide to BizTalk has been released - well worth having a look, especially if you are new to BizTalk 2004. Once again, Alan has done a sterling job! Read More... Posted 30 January 2005 13:45 by Matthew.Hall | 0 Comments Filed under: BizTalk

• .NET Naming Conventions

  Conchango have been actively working on their internal .NET standards since its exposure to the company some while back now. This has been a evolutionary process, taking on past experience with other languages and platforms, but predominantly based upon Read More... Posted 27 January 2005 08:47 by Matthew.Hall | 1 Comments Filed under: .NET

• BizTalk 2004 Service Pack 1 Released

  Further to my posts relating to the contents of BizTalk 2004 Service Pack 1, it has finally been released. Details can be found here . In addition to what I have posted about before, it includes some performance counters, FTP throttling, IPipelineContextEx Read More... Posted 27 January 2005 08:23 by Matthew.Hall | 1 Comments Filed under: BizTalk

• BizTalk 2004 Service Pack Contents Draft

  Update: The service pack has been released It took a little while to obtain, but here is a draft list of updates that are to be included in BizTalk 2004 Service Pack 1 Service Pack 1 811250 FIX: You experience high CPU utilization and no timeout exception Read More... Posted 18 January 2005 08:47 by Matthew.Hall | 7 Comments Filed under: BizTalk

• SqlServer Data Provider

  The SqlServer Data Provider is the new provider supplied with SQL Server 2005 that exposes the server-side interface for SQL Server 2005, much in the same way that SqlClient provider did for client-based access. In fact, it seems the goal at Microsoft Read More... Posted 12 January 2005 20:05 by Matthew.Hall | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Server

• SQL Server 2005 Ascend

  I am currently on the SQL Server 2005 Application Development Ascend Training course this week hosted by the extremely knowledgeable Bob Beauchemin . To be honest, although I had been keeping abreast of the developments of SQL Server 2005 (formerly Yukon Read More... Posted 11 January 2005 20:51 by Matthew.Hall | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Server

• Blogosphere

  Pew Internet & American Life Project measures the impact of blogs . 8 million American adults say they have created blogs; blog readership jumped 58% in 2004 and now stands at 27% of internet users; 5% of internet users say they use RSS aggregators Read More... Posted 07 January 2005 12:47 by Matthew.Hall | 1 Comments Filed under: General

• Datasets vs. Custom Entities

  During my lunch today I was reading up on various opinions on whether to use DataSets, Custom Entities or other techniques when writing an application. Obviously it always depends on what you are attempting to create, but I came across this interesting Read More... Posted 05 January 2005 14:58 by Matthew.Hall | 1 Comments Filed under: .NET