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Microsoft MIX 2007 Keynote announcements

Wow. We just finished up the Microsoft MIX 07 keynote address, and as Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie were detailing the latest announcements from the Microsoft dev front, some eyepopping demos and incredible platform announcements were made public. As I took notes, everytime I saw something I couldn't wait...

Posted to Steve Holstad's "the bright lights" (Weblog) by sholstad on 04-30-2007
SSIS Tip #2: Dynamic Property Expressions

When creating an SSIS package, keep mind the power of creating dynamic Property Expressions. Any Read/Write property of a package, task, event, manager, etc can be manipulated at runtime via Property Expressions to change the behavior of a deployed, otherwise static SSIS package. This gives the developer...

Posted to Steve Holstad's "the bright lights" (Weblog) by sholstad on 04-13-2007
SSIS Tip #1: Set SSIS package variables via SQL Agent jobs

I've recently been digging into SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (SSIS), and I'm really impressed with how powerful a tool this package can be, and the wide range of tasks that can be accomplished in a short amount of time. Lately I've been researching how SSIS packages can help with our ETL (Extract...

Posted to Steve Holstad's "the bright lights" (Weblog) by sholstad on 03-26-2007
Web Setup project dependency bug in Visual Studio IDE

Arrgh! Perhaps the most irritating project scenario I can imagine: Today is a "Build Day", so you're fired up to deploy your sweet new code... Hmm, I wonder if the client will buy us "Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ?". All I need to do is compile the latest code, label the code, deploy to staging, test, and deploy...

Posted to Steve Holstad's "the bright lights" (Weblog) by sholstad on 02-01-2007
Web Application Project 1.0 available next week

Scott Guthrie just posted an update to the release of .NET Web Application Project...looks like its slated for next Monday, May 8. I can't wait to get this, as updated support for edit and continue while debugging, team builds within VSTS and a custom build action tool will really make my life easier...

Posted to Steve Holstad's "the bright lights" (Weblog) by sholstad on 05-04-2006
ASP.NET 2.0 Web Deployment Projects Beta V2 Preview

The ASP.NET 2.0 Web Deployment Projects newest Beta has been released, and is available from the link below. This Visual Studio Add-in provides a feature-rich user interface for enhancing your asp.net website. We've started to use this tool for some of our client projects, and its quickly becoming a...

Posted to Steve Holstad's "the bright lights" (Weblog) by sholstad on 03-14-2006
Capture Master Page Events in Content Pages - ASP.NET 2.0

Using Delegates with Master Page Events: For newer developers, using events and delegates can sometime seem pretty intimidating. This article is aimed to give a very simple example of using events, delegates, public properties and subscribing forms to capture events from one form to the next. The problem...

Posted to Steve Holstad's "the bright lights" (Weblog) by sholstad on 03-04-2006
ASP.NET 2.0 Roles, Memberships and Users

I admit, after attending the Visual Studio 2005 Launch this fall and hearing that the .NET 2.0 framework would decrease the amount of code written by 70%, I was more than doubtful. My programmer snobbery kicked in, and I was instantly scoffing at this type of claim. From the clients and colleagues I...

Posted to Steve Holstad's "the bright lights" (Weblog) by sholstad on 02-02-2006
AJAX web app using ATLAS & VS.NET 2005

Every time I start to passively browse Microsoft's MSDN site, I can't help but come away with some emerging technology that I can't wait to get home and hammer at. Hmm, the fiancee's working, the dog is sleeping....let's do this. Tonight's episode: ASP.NET's Hands On Lab featuring Atlas . "Atlas" is...

Posted to Steve Holstad's "the bright lights" (Weblog) by sholstad on 10-04-2005

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