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When’s the next drop then…?

Hopefully things have cooled enough since the cut-back announcement to ask this question without everyone getting all upset or starting yet another thread of FUD, so here goes: It’s been quite some time since the general development community has seen a refreshed drop of Longhorn… I believe WinHec was the last? Obviously things are a […]

Another Suggestion Made For Whidbey

I just entered a suggestion for the Whidbey .NET Framework. It has to do with adding a Disposed event to the SqlDataReader. Every other major class (SqlConnection, SqlCommand, SqlDataAdapter, etc.) in the System.Data.SqlClient namespace has a this event, so why not SqlDataReader. My personal reason for having it is that I have a data access […]

ConfigXmlDocument does not set BaseURI

Here’s a missing piece of functionality that’s frustrating me right now: Basically, XmlDocument has a virtual property called BaseURI that subclasses can override to provide the base URI (go figure) from where the XmlDocument instance was loaded. In a normal XmlDocment, if you call the Load override specifying the “filename” parameter, it will set it’s BaseURI […]

Toshiba Satellite P25-S676 Laptop For Sale

I’m selling my Toshiba Satellite P25-S607 over on eBay. It’s a great machine and less than a year old. In fact, it’s still under the original warranty! I loved that thing… actually I loved it so much that the reason I’m selling it is because I picked up the newer P25-S676 model.  It’s basically the exactly same thing […]

When would SqlConnection.Open blow away a COM+ context?

Ok, this is pretty crazy. I’m on XPSP2 and I’ve entered a ServiceDomain with a ServiceConfig that requires transactions with an IsolationLevel of Serializable. Now, I’ve done this a million times before and it works no problem. In the specific scenario I’m dealing with now, I’m seeing something completely insane. I’ve constructed a SqlConnection and […]