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Posts in the "Software Engineering" Category 
ADO.NET Entity Framework - Disturbance in the Force?
By Doug Holland (Intel) (76 posts) on June 26, 2008 at 3:04 pm
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Do I detect a disturbance in the force? After reading a blog post by Murray Gordon, an ISV architecture evangelist for Microsoft, it appears that several people are expressing concerns with the ADO.NET Entity Framework. According to the blog post by Murray there are currently 156 people who have signed the vote of no confidence and [...]
Category: Software Engineering
Windows Communication Foundation Diagnostics
By Doug Holland (Intel) (76 posts) on June 26, 2008 at 12:46 pm
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On occasion even the best developers must diagnose issues within their code and with distributed applications this can be a challenging prospect. The Windows Communication Foundation provides extensive tracing that can be enabled within the application domain configuration file (e.g. the App.config or Web.config of your application). WCF builds upon the tracing capabilities found within the [...]
Category: Software Engineering
Microsoft Hyper-V Released to Manufacturing
By Doug Holland (Intel) (76 posts) on June 26, 2008 at 11:20 am
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Microsoft today released to manufacturing the Hyper-V virtualization solution for Windows Server 2008. You can read more about the release on the virtualization blog. Updates will be available through Windows Update beginning on July 8th. Links to the download sites can be found on John Howard's blog. Incidentally, Microsoft's MSDN and TechNet websites have been virtualized [...]
Category: Software Engineering, Virtualization
Free webinar this week on IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS)
By Jeff Moriarty (Intel) (16 posts) on June 25, 2008 at 7:29 am
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This Thursday, June 26th, Intel and Ericsson are parterning for a free webinar on developing using IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS). Next-generation IP services now support multiple applications on a single, converged industry standard, and, IMS helps software developers simplify and accelerate development efforts. As the industry moves toward the IMS standard, there must be interoperability among [...]
Category: Events, Intel® Software Network 2.0, Mobility, Software Engineering
Your password is a potentially dangerous
By Kenneth Graf (Intel) (6 posts) on June 19, 2008 at 2:59 pm
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It has been awhile since I last blogged and my general password had changed, imagine my surprise when I login on to blog and received this error message. A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client (_ctl1:txtPassword="...*...."). Well, surprised really is not the right word. I understand that some application developer listened to [...]
Category: Software Engineering, XML Software
The three advantages of open source
By David Stewart (Intel) (83 posts) on June 10, 2008 at 11:35 am
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I'm working on a paper right now for a conference later in the month. Part of it is talking to the way the OpenSolaris community works and ways it can improve. I find myself writing prose that makes me sound smarter than I really am, and I get worried! Here is my simple analysis of the [...]
Category: Open Source, Software Engineering
SQL Server: To convert to Numeric, or not to convert to Numeric, that is the question...
By Doug Holland (Intel) (76 posts) on June 10, 2008 at 8:32 am
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Yesterday myself and two other members of my team thought that we had found a bug in the SQL Server engine which is not something you typically do on any given day. What had happened was that the varchar value of '.' was tested using the IsNumeric function which indicated that the varchar value of [...]
Category: Software Engineering
Introducing SQL Server 2008 (Free eBook)
By Doug Holland (Intel) (76 posts) on June 10, 2008 at 6:42 am
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Microsoft Press is offering a free eBook of the forthcoming Introducing SQL Server 2008 by Peter DeBetta and the first chapter today on Policy-based Management.
Category: Software Engineering
Interesting Technical Projects on Software Performance Analysis and Optimization...Which Failed
By Michael Chynoweth (Intel) (2 posts) on June 7, 2008 at 11:42 am
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Tech Project #1: Utilizing Genetic Algorithms to Identify Potential Software Performance Opportunities In these blogs, I would like to discuss some of our failed technical projects at Intel in order to share some of the lessons we have learned. I am a believer that you learn just as much from your failures as from successes…so in [...]
Category: Cool Software, Multicore, Software Engineering
SQL Server 2008 Reaches RC0 Milestone
By Doug Holland (Intel) (76 posts) on June 5, 2008 at 10:30 pm
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During this week's Microsoft TechEd 2008 Developers conference in Orlando, FL the Microsoft SQL Server team quietly reached the release candidate zero milestone with an initial upload of the binaries to MVP's and TAP program participants on Microsoft Connect on June 4th. Once the build had been declared as release candidate zero then the binaries [...]