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Making pre- and post-deployment scripts run in a VSTS DBPro build.
I’m going to be doing the keynote at the launch of Visual Studio Team Editor for Database Professionals (aka VSTS DBPro, “data dude”) tomorrow. I wanted to play around with creating default values in lookup tables as part of my demo. DBPro gives you this functionality through pre-deployment and post-deployment scripts. You write your own…
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Keynote @ VSTS Database Professional Launch in Waltham, MA
Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals is being released in a matter of days (11/30/2006) and Microsoft is putting on a series of launch events around the country. Want to see what it can do? I’ve been asked to give the keynote at the Boston-area launch event. “Joining Forces: Assimilating Data Experts into the Development Team…
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Looking for a C#, ASP.NET Developer
I’m looking for a mid/senior-level C# / ASP.NET developer to join my project for a major financial institution in Boston, MA. The project is an n-tier app written with C#, ASP.NET, NHibernate 1.2, Visual Studio Unit Tests, and Team Foundation Server. Required Skills: NHibernate, Test-Driven Development (test first!), C#, ASP.NET, database design, object modelling Nice-to-have skills: Visual…
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NHibernate 1.2 Beta: Stored Procedure Sample
The NHibernate 1.2 beta has been available for download since the end of September. Two of the big features are support for .NET generic collections and support for stored procedures. I decided to give these features a test drive and I posted my code here. (FYI, it’s written using Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite and uses…
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VSLive Boston 2006 "Serious WebPart Customization" Slides
I’ve posted the slides and code samples for my “Serious WebPart Customization” talk at VSLive Boston 2006. Download the slides here. Download the sample code here. -Ben
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NHibernate and VSTS/TFS at Code Camp 6
Code Camp 6 (free conference) is happening this Saturday from 9am – 6pm at the Microsoft office in Waltham. The session schedule got published last night. I’m going to be doing 2 sessions: 10:45am – 12:15 — Introduction to NHibernate 1:15pm – 2:45pm — Team Foundation Server: The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread -Ben …
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NHibernate & Reporting Services at Beantown.NET on 10/5/2006
The Beantown.NET User Group (INETA) is meeting again on Thursday, 10/5/2006. http://www.beantowndotnet.org This month we have two speakers: Bill Gross will be doing a talk on SQL Server Reporting Services and I’ll be doing a talk on developing database-driven applications using NHibernate. As always, our meeting is open to everyone so bring your friends andco-workers. …
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Fix: Close lid on laptop changes screen resolution
I’ve got a Dell Precision M65. It rocks. Dual core. 2gb’s of RAM with room for up to 4gb. Two hard drives. Virtual Server 2005 R2 just plain screams. Last week I downloaded and installed all the updated drivers from Dell after I started getting some blue-screens related to my wifi driver and video driver. …
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Can't access web app from the machine that app is hosted on (aka. localhost)
When I do development work for clients who don’t have their own development server, I set up a IIS virtual host on my server so that I can post iterations for them to review. Every client gets its own domain name like http://clientName.benday.com. It’s a pretty cool feature of IIS that allows you to host lots…
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Team Foundation Server & Team System @ VSLive Boston and VSLive Dallas
I’m going to be speaking at VSLive Boston and VSLive Dallas on Team System and Team Foundation Server. The title of the talk is “Team Foundation Server: Beyond the GUI”. Here’s the abstract: Did you know that Team Foundation Server (TFS) has an API to control, customize and consume almost any piece of TFS functionality,…