February 2006 Entries

Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Announced Q3 2006

A new website launched on MSDN recently for Visual Studio called Servicing.  The site outlines a service pack for VS2003 and VS2005 that will come out in Q3 of 2006.    Here is what the service pack for VS2005 is suppose to include (taken directly from site): Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 will focus on addressing product issues reported during the first few months the product is in the market. The types of fixes you can expect to find in this service pack follow the same general guidelines we have used previously, with the notable addition of feedback received from customers...

Downed trees and a revived blog

I talked to a couple of friends this past week that I haven't talked to in awhile and they were like, how come you haven't updated your blog? The reason is I have been EXTREMELY busy. If I have any free time where I don't want to look at a computer I am outside working in the yard trying to clean up our wooded area which was wrecked by the huricane. Honestly I need about $5,000.00 to hire a tree removal company to come in and clean the woods up. Trees are down everywhere and while I am skilled with...

Using the right messaging technology - MSMQ, Biztalk, or Service Broker

Recently I had to decide which messaging technology I was going to use in an application.  After doing some research on the topic and talking to some fellow developers, it seems others are having the same question I did, which one do you use where.  The answer is of course "it depends".  Each technology is capable of receiving messages and queing them.  However, they each serve different purposes and one might be overkill over another.Message Queuing OverviewIf you are not familar with messaging in applications that's OK.  As a developer maybe you've never needed to use message queuing in your...

The site has moved, now running Community Server

We finally got the site moved and setup Community Server for everyone to enjoy.  We will be back porting some of the old content but I haven't gotten around to it yet. [Updated 1/1/2007] The site is now running SubText.

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