Monthly Archives: February 2008

FTP for IIIS7 RTM

The replacement for the FTP service in IIS 7 that I mentioned recently has just been released. Click through to download in x86 or x64.

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SQL 2005 XML DML cannot make multiple changes to the same value

With the advent of xml columns in SQL 2005, I was looking forward to the data manipulation that XML Data Manipulation Language (DML) provides. Unfortunately, it appears that the implementation is horribly limited in that it cannot make an arbitrary … Continue reading

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Toshiba Announces Discontinuation of HD DVD Businesses

Toshiba has officially discontinued the HD DVD business, resulting in the end of the format war that was helping nobody. Although this comes as no surprise to anyone, I’ve always preferred HD-DVD as a format. Oh well, no use being … Continue reading

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IIS 7 FTP Publishing Service

The replacement for the FTP service in IIS 7 is almost here, and it’s looking better everyday. Although still only a release candidate (RC0), the new service supports a myriad of new features: FTP over SSL Membership Providers UTF8 IPv6 … Continue reading

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Advanced Debugging Lab Series

Over the past few weeks Tess Ferrnandez, an escalation engineer at Microsoft, has been releasing the first of her 10 part series of labs advanced ASP.NET debugging. At the time of writing there are three labs covering Hangs (deadlocks), Crashes, … Continue reading

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Microsoft opens the binary formats and starts an open source conversion project

As part of their Open Specification Promise, Microsoft have finally released documentation for their binary office formats (DOC, PPT, XLS). Additionally, they have started an open source project to convert these formats into their respective 2007 package formats. I’ve gotta … Continue reading

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My first gripe with Vista

I’ve been using Vista for quite a while now and I often defend it in the face of naysayers. For example, I am 100% behind Microsoft when it comes to people complaining that their applications don’t work in Vista because, … Continue reading

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