I saw this on Dot Net Kicks today and just had to comment on it. It is a great article about using Subversion and branching . Branching code for features It is almost a given in the current development world that you will be implementing new features while performing maintenance at the same time. That...

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I was very happy to discover that our database product was mentioned in the list from Jon Davis of things Microsoft should be ashamed of (that they didn't do it first). I happen to agree with Jon on a number of issues, but I also take things a few steps further when it comes to managed code. See the...

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Microsoft has released a new PowerCommands V1.1 tool for VS 2008. This tool integrates within the IDE and gives you some very cool tools. One of my favorites is the ability to right click a file and say "Open Containing Folder" - immediate access to an Explorer window to that file. Makes it...

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FREE? Microsoft has announced a great program for College students in 11 countries. They are going to give away Visual Studio 2005 AND 2008, SQL Server 2005, Windows Server 2003 Standard, XNA Game Studio 2, and Expression web developer. The project is called Microsoft DreamSpark and is available I believe...

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View the Entity Spaces 2008 blog about their new developments. They are adding the ability to generate ES frameworks directly within Visual Studio. From the ES Blog: We are very excited about our upcoming CodeSmith support for ES2008 and will post more as soon as we are generating a complete EntitySpaces...

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Graffiti 1.0 Released today. Yes, you are viewing it on our blog now. How hard is Graffiti CMS to setup? Very, very easy. If you want to run it locally to test they include an EXE that launches the ASP.NET local webserver. No need to mess around with IIS or config it on your local box. How hard is Graffiti...

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Looks like the ES team is going to change their code generation model to make it more extendable in the future. Mike and his team are certainly running full speed ahead. And they are adding VistaDB 3.3 support with Stored Procs (very cool don't you know). (diagram is from ES 2008 team blog) I like the...

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I mentioned the Visual Studio 2008 launch event in one of the other blog posts and got an email from someone today for the site. Here is the main website (full of silverlight content as well): www.heroeshappenhere.com The website has some quick information on SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008, Windows...

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I get emailed questions from users all the time. Quite often it is a new or barely known technology and I am asked if VistaDB will work with it. Many times I already know the answer, but occasionally I get thrown a curveball. Silverlight was one example. We had users emailing us arcane press releases...

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As most of you know, VistaDB does obfuscate the assemblies we ship. Why? Well, sometimes I ask myself that question. Most of the de-compilers worth their salt can still rip apart the obfuscated DLL. Sure, you lost the variable names, and it replaces them with DefaultClass1 and things like that, but you...

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