I have Data Dude (aka, Visual Studio for Database Professionals) installed on my local machine.  However, my other team members don't have Data Dude installed.  They are running Visual Studio Team System for Developers.  This puts us all in a quandary.  For example, if I update the database with Data Dude, how do the other developers get the latest updates installed to their local sandbox?  Better yet, how do they generate fake data for the database when they don't Data Dude installed?  This is supposed to be addressed in future versions of Data Dude but I needed something now.  Here is...

I just ran into this bug this morning.  I was creating a unit test project for my database so I could create unit tests for the stored procedures.  Turns out when I created the project and added the first unit tests to it it referenced the Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 9.0 DLL for Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamSystem.Data and Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamSystem.Data.UnitTesting.  The fix was to remove them and then re-add them but why it did this I have no idea.

Finally Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is installed.  I've been through hell trying to get it installed on Vista.  I've ran the setup program probably 15 times only to have the .Net framework 3.5 installation stopped.  I spent countless hours reading blogs, forums and error codes trying to get it installed.  In the end I think the majority of the problem was a bad DVD.  Yes, I am once again haunted by a bad DVD burn from a validated ISO.  My fix was to first install .Net 3.5 Beta 2 release by itself since this appeared to be the major hurdle most people...

Everything is finally in and hooked up and working with the new home theater.  The new Samsung TV arrived last Friday along with the new entertainment furniture.   The speakers arrived on Tuesday, one day ahead of schedule.  It took a lot of maneuvering to get everything situated but things are settling in.   Everything is working really well, especially the Onkyo TX-SR705 receiver.  I took a few pictures so you can see how things are shaping up.   Xbox 360 in 1080P on 56inch Samsung HL-T5687S.  It looks incredible.  Right now I have the component out of the Xbox plugged directly into the back of the...

Some of my fellow team members worked hard on a new request the business gave the team last week.  They executed on it and were rewarded with beer.  How cool is that?  Read the full story here.  And not just any beer but Oberon, my favorite. 

I was filling out a document during lunch today for a speaking engagement.  There were the typical questions on the form:  name, email, phone, bio, session abstract and personal photo.   Nothing major, I have all that easily available.  The next question it asked for was a personal logo.  I scratched my head, personal logo.  Hmmm, I don't have one.  A quick search revealed this link about them but this is the first I've heard of one.  Am I officially un-cool now?  How many geek points does this cost me because I don't have a personal logo?  Not wanting to lose...

I took another one of those personality tests.   This one I don't know how much weight it holds but in the end, I'm 73% Megatron.  Here is the overview:  Megatron is the leader of the Decepticons. He will stop at nothing to establish his empire and destroy the Autobots, starting with Optimus Prime. Like Megatron, you are not compassionate and harbor evil thoughts. You are inspiring, confident, and a natural leader. The Decepticons have chosen well. In addition, you enjoy being one step ahead of your friends as far as trends and technology. I don't know...

Since I wanted to move my generated proxy class generated by svcUtil to a separate C# Class Library project I ran into another problem after I figured out how to generate the collection type I wanted.  The problem I ran into was the namespace wasn't correct.  At first there wasn't a namespace.  I knew there was a namespace switch in the svcUtil.exe but the lack of documentation on it and examples left me scratching my head a few times.  Why people don't include examples of every single switch is beyond me.  I guess I am too much of an educator to...

I just ran into a weird situation and I'm documenting it so I think I'm crazy later on.  I have the following method in a WCF service which basically returns a List<> of data contracts.

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