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Teligent has released the new 1.1 version of Graffiti CMS . The Graffiti v1.1 edition includes · bulk comment management · permissions functionality · the ability to delete and rename users · packages, and · more than 30 bugs fixes New Pricing The newest version of...

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Mike and I had an interesting discussion this afternoon about LINQ and how it interprets enumerable rows. Needless to say, some test code had to be written to prove or disprove some theories. Concrete vs Interface Our thought experiment was what if you had an interface to an object and wanted to expose...

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Build #62, 6/26/2008 NOTES NEW Setup Application. This version does things very differently under the hood. The serial number input is not validated yet (it will be later). But it should be smart enough to remember your serial number during upgrades. Foreign Key Lists were using an arraylist internally...

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More people Good news indeed. We have another Mike coming to work with us. Mike has accepted a full time position at VistaDB starting in July. Another Mike? Yes, that makes 4 officially associated with the product dev team. Makes it easier on me I guess... I can now always just state that it wasn't me...

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What do you think the coolest feature of VistaDB is today? I get asked this question quite a bit and I never know how to answer. Hmm, we have a lot to choose from. I am going to rattle of a few of my favorites and see what you guys come up with also. Jason's Picks 100% Dot Net - A lot of people don't...

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What is the VistaDBContext object? Think of the VistaDBContext as your host container for the CLRProc. It is the part of the engine that is kept per connection and allows the hosted CLRProc to communicate to the Engine through a Pipe object. This is very similar to how it works in SQL Server. Why can...

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Build #61, 06/11/2008 NOTES This is still using the old setup. Mostly because we needed to get a corrected version that uninstalled things correctly. The current 3.4 uninstaller will leave things in the registry (bad). This new setup will clean those up upon uninstall correctly. Planning to replace the...

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Build 60 is up on the site for download now as a beta developer build for all subscribers. Build 59 was a special test build not released publicly. As we prepare to make some more low level engine changes we felt this was a good time to release another development build. The source edition has also been...

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Wow, this year is flying. The OTHER company The other company that we owned is now sold! Not sure if I can (or should) mention them here now, but it is done. I expect public announcements very soon. Phew, it has been a huge load of work to complete the sale. Now comes the hard part, letting go. Have...

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Growth is a good thing VistaDB has more than doubled in downloads over the past year. This has meant a strain on our servers and download procedures as we continue to grow. In an effort to get ahead of the curve a bit we are performing a major upgrade over the next few weeks. There may be brief interruptions...

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