SqlXml Blogs

Saw this interesting tool on the Intel Website that allows you to find out if the machine you are working on is a multi-core, multi-proc, HT technology enabled etc. Very interesting. Check it out here. The algorithm is also available. So I presume there will be applications written specifically to maximize such hardware advancements ...

101 Microsoft VS features compared to DW8. Interesting set of comparision.

Chris Adams Blog has this interesting post on IIS 6.0 WMI scripting. Though I am a big fan of WMI scripting I can see this being very less used in the industry. Looking at the SQL 2005 scripting capabilities and administrative ease I am so excited about this ... Do take a look here.

Rory Blyth shows how to create a simple SQL Server Mobile-based Pocket PC application. Download the same from MSDN Downloads.

ILMerge is a utility for merging multiple .NET assemblies into a single .NET assembly. It works on executables and DLLs alike and comes with several options for controlling the processing and format of the output. Get the same here.

Interesting in a way sometimes there are way too many features with every little application that we hardly use 10% of the features. And some features are carry forward from the previous era just under the name of "backward compatibility". Nice to see the Excel team blog on some of these least used features deprecated and gone for good ...

Software and hardware standards for building portable applications on USB drives. With a U3 smart drive, you can plug into any Windows 2000 or XP PC and work , play a game, message friends, send email, edit photos and more, all without worrying if applications are installed on the computer. Interesting product ...

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This package is the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of ADO.NET vNext and includes the preview build of the ADO.NET Entity Framework along with samples and whitepapers. The ADO.NET Entity Framework supports Object Relational Mapping scenarios using ADO.NET Entities, in this build you can: - Query of persistent Entities using LINQ to ...

Here is an interesting read on some of the top 10 management reasons for the same. Read it here.