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SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) and Live Mesh are the two technologies that are uppermost in my mind at the moment. [My thoughts on SSDS are here and on Live Mesh here.] Hence then it didn't take me long to start wondering about the value of the two of them being integrated together. SSDS is a data storage platform and Live Mesh is a data ...

A question I quite often see on the SSIS forum is: Is there a way to delete a group of files within a directory? ie: I want to delete all files in directorty c:\logs\*.txt (http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3196521&SiteID=1) Well its actually quite easy, you just need  ForEach Loop container and the FileSystem Task. ...

I run various Virtual PC systems from my laptop but recently, for some reason I lost the VPC 2007 console off screen. I thought that a new addition to my list of VPCs had trashed my configuration, since I could run a desired VPC by double-clicking it's respective ".vmc" file but the VPC console would briefly appear on the task bar but ...

Ian Smith has kindly sorted out Video 5 for us: If you have not seen the others yet check out my last blog.   

Next Monday (14th April) brings with it the start of the Microsoft MVP Summit 2008. This is an opportunity for all of the (give or take a few) 4000 MVPs from around the world to travel to Seattle and engage with Microsoft product teams with a view to helping them improve their products. Someone somewhere has deigned that I have the honour of being ...

Ian Smith kindly recorded the event for us, see below:  Video 1: Introduction (Paul Dawson, Michelle Flynn, Mark Mann) Video 2: Silverlight 2.3 Tips & Tricks - awaiting subtitling Video 3: Tim Sneath Q&A Part 1 Video 4: Tim Sneath Q&A Part 2  Video 5: Wrap up - awaiting subtitling  If you would ...

Conchango are exhibiting at TestExpo on Thursday 10th April.   It is being held at: Congress Centre 23-28 Great Russell Street London WC1B 3LS.   Doors open at 9.00am and you will find us on Stand number 18.   Tickets are free so hurry up and apply before they are all gone!  You can apply at ...

''It was the best user group I have ever been to!'' ''Can I bring my colleagues to the next one?'' ''Conchango know how to host a user group'' ''What a pleasure to meet Tim Sneath'' Last night we hosted the UK's 1st Silverlight User Group.  It was attended by 50 people including some key people from Microsoft.  It was a great success ...

What better a subject for my first blog post here than the kickoff of the Silverlight UK User Group?Well, I helped facilitate the inaugural event here in our London office last night with Michelle Flynn and our main frontman Paul ''awesome'' Dawson. Firstly, a massive thanks for all that attended because it was a really interesting and a ...

News announced yesterday that EMC are to acquire Conchango.