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Graham Parker

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• Message from Phoenix..!

  Posted: 20 Dec 2006 at 09:37

  Visual Studio 2005 SP1 By Phoenix www.phoenix-vb.net 14th December VS2005 SP1 just released here Email me here Phoenix

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  Posted: 14 Dec 2006 at 12:03

  Visual Studio 2005 SP1 By Phoenix www.phoenix-vb.net 14th December Writing desktop applications - still using Jet? Read the musings of William Vaughn (author of the Hitchhiker Guide to SQL Server) here Email me here Phoenix

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  Posted: 20 Nov 2006 at 13:30

  Visual Studio 2005 SP1 By Phoenix www.phoenix-vb.net 20th November I have been a fan of Bill Vaughn and his Hitchhiker's Guides - he has just released an eBook - "Hitchhikers Guide to SQL Server 2005 Compact Edtiion". Naturally I bought a copy - at just over a fiver it is a bargain. It is clear

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  Posted: 16 Nov 2006 at 13:44

  A Good Night Out By Phoenix www.phoenix-vb.net Along with 30 others I was at the London region event "Designing Effective User -Interfaces Today & Tomorrow" presented by Helen Emerson. Helen went through  the four main areas that enable the developer to change the look and feel of a ASP 2.0

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  Posted: 10 Nov 2006 at 14:45

  SQL Server CE RC1 installation By Phoenix www.phoenix-vb.net I found the installation instructions for SQL Server CE to be not very clear. So I started from a fresh system and this procedure works: 1. Install VS2005 2. Install VS2005 SP1 Beta here 3. Install SQL Server CE here 4. Install SQL Server

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  Posted: 08 Nov 2006 at 14:45

  SQL Server CE RC1 available now By Phoenix www.phoenix-vb.net SQL Server CE RC1 is now available with the production version available at the end of the month See here Phoenix

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  Posted: 01 Nov 2006 at 12:23

  Visual Studio 2005 SP1 By Phoenix www.phoenix-vb.net 1st November Visual Studio 2005 is about to get its first Service Pack. Hidden away in SP1 is the inclusion of support for SQL Server Compact - this is the product previously known as SQL Server Everywhere - see   here  in

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  Posted: 27 Oct 2006 at 10:30

  VBUG Conference Slides By Phoenix www.phoenix-vb.net Here is the correct link for my conference slides - www.phoenix-vb.net/phoenix.ppt Feel free to email me here Phoenix

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  Posted: 26 Oct 2006 at 12:44

  VBUG Conference By Phoenix www.phoenix-vb.net At the VBUG conference I posed the question  Is this the dawning of the age of the Smart Client for internal applications? I described that there was a pattern emerging with the developments in Hardware, software and application model. I have discov

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  Posted: 23 Oct 2006 at 09:44

  VBUG Conference 2006 - By Simon Harriyott The VBUG conference was held at the Microsoft offices in Reading .  After an impromptu site-seeing tour of the highlights of the historic town (i.e. I got lost), I arrived halfway through the first session. This was my first VBUG conference, and it didn

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  Posted: 12 Oct 2006 at 12:04

  Important Change for Windows Client/Server Writing and Deployment By Phoenix www.phoenix-vb.net 12th October For those writing Fat/Smart Client applications there now appears to be a single DLL replacement for MDAC: Microsoft Announcement  and the details here Email me here Phoen

• The Diary of a Long Voyage

  Posted: 28 Sep 2006 at 09:46

    learning VS 2005 and SQL Server 2005 from scratch This is the last of these Blogs about me learning VB and SQL Server 2005. I no longer qualify as a beginner, but the quest for knowledge goes on - building on what I have learnt over the last 7 months - "The end of the beginning" I am now goi

• Development Tool Manufacturers

  Posted: 25 Sep 2006 at 09:49

  Does anyone else find this? You buy a component, library, tool etc and the demo's that come with it, never actually go far enough. Like they show you the functionality that can be built in 2 minutes, but you'd never use on a production app, and the real stuff is left in the Codesphere. It would be

• VBUG: Technical Support Meetings - an attendees opinion...

  Posted: 20 Sep 2006 at 16:33

  VBUG presentation in Brighton was interesting. The speaker was Robert Schifreen, original hacker turned security expert. Robert's actions in the early 80s were largely responsible for the introduction of the computer misuse act 1990. Robert started by giving a brief history of his security adventur

• The Diary of a long voyage

  Posted: 12 Sep 2006 at 09:44

  learning VS 2005 and SQL Server 2005 from scratch By Phoenix www.phoenix-vb.net 11th September I have been investigating the use of SQL Server Everywhere. I believe that this is the strategic way ahead for small databases. Microsoft announced the click-once distribution method - however to install M

• New Addison Wesley Book - .NET Internationalization

  Posted: 06 Sep 2006 at 10:54

  So, are you looking to make your applications available worldwide? Or just sticking to the English language because it's easy? Well, Guy Smith-Ferrier's new book tells you all the savvy you need to know on .NET Internationalization. Sample Chapter Attached.   Enjoy...  You can order here

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  Posted: 01 Sep 2006 at 12:21

  SQL Server Everywhere - More details from Microsoft Quote: Uniform database story across device and desktop Since SQL Server Everywhere Edition is build over the SQL Mobile technology, we retain database compatibility between these two. With Whidbey SP1, developers will get the device bits of S

• The Diary of a Long Voyage

  Posted: 01 Sep 2006 at 09:15

  learning VS 2005 and SQL Server 2005 from scratch By Phoenix www.phoenix-vb.net 1st September I have been investigating the use of SQL Everywhere. It seems on the surface to be a good way to go for a small data repository. So let me analyse the product. 1. SQL Everywhere is a development of SQL Serv

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  Posted: 24 Aug 2006 at 15:38

  The Diary of a Long Voyage - learning VS 2005 and SQL Server 2005 from scratch By Phoenix www.phoenix-vb.net 24th August I dont propose to write a Web Service tutorial in the blog (or on my Web Site) as I have very little to add over and above some of the fine books. I am able to catagorise my books

• The Diary of a Long Voyage - learning VS 2005 and SQL Server 2005 from scratch

  Posted: 17 Aug 2006 at 10:43

  By Phoenix www.phoenix-vb.net 17th August Since coming back from holiday I have been working on how to demonstrate Webservices. The content I have already decided on, the requirements needed some more careful thinking I feel that that it would be nice to demonstrate a use of Web Services using Windo