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Recently an issue came up with regard to the export to PDF functionality in our printing and reporting suites, XtraPrinting and XtraReports. The issue was in regard to the use of characters that weren't the normal 7-bit ASCII characters and whether...
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The devLink 2008 conference in Nashville, Tennessee is already here! If you were lucky enough to get registered before it sold out then drop by the Developer Express booth and say Hello. I’ll be there to answer your questions and show you some cool demos...
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Although the UK is a crowded island sitting on the border of the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea, comfortably far from mainland Europe, its population is relatively small; in fact when compared to the those of China or India it is, in fact, tiny (estimated...
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Boris posted me some code that I used to play around with, in order to make XPO work with SQL Server 2008 spatial data . It is possible to make it work, quite easily actually, but there are a few things that need to be considered, and where more than...
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Yesterday I wrote about using the new SQL Server 2008 FILESTREAM feature with XPO , and this morning Boris from our XPO team sent me an IM going "na na na, I found an easier way to do this". Okay, maybe he didn't quite put it like that ...
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Sounds like a conspiracy theory, so maybe I should put it all in caps, with spelling mistakes: INSTALING VISHUL STUDIO SP1 NUKKED MY DX NEW ITEMS IKONS. KTHXBYE. A customer phoned me up this afternoon saying that he'd just installed DXperience Enterprise...
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Microsoft Senior VPs Steve Sinofsky and Jon DeVaan (the former in charge of Windows and Windows Live and the latter in charge of Windows Core Operating Systems) have started a new joint blog called Engineering Windows 7 to talk about, well, Windows 7...
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In a recent forum post , Reinhold Erlacher asked me whether we supported the new FILESTREAM feature in SQL Server 2008 yet. I was not familiar with the feature, not being a SQL Server expert really, but I decided to have a look. First, I had to set up...
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Here's another refactoring we're working on for the 3.2 release, Extract to XAML Template . It moves an inlined control template up to the resource section of the file, which promotes reuse of the template across multiple controls. Between now...
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I was involved in some debugging action this morning, regarding my XPO Publication Service . Please read this post (and others linked from there) to find out the basics about that service. The problem in question was that a customer was receiving a weird...
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A couple of days ago the Silverlight Control Builder Contest '08 that Page Brooks organized came to an end. He'd managed to convince a whole bunch of vendors like ourselves to pony up prizes (ours was a subscription to DXperience Universal and...
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This is one of my favorite new refactorings coming up in the 3.2 release of Refactor! Pro. It's called Extract Method to Type , and it allows you to extract a block of code from one class to another class better suited to host the code block. Here's...
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Though a bit late in posting this, SQL Server magazine has published a short video on the awards we received this year at TechEd 2008. The video can be viewed here: http://ittv.net/DesktopModules/UltraVideoGallery/UltraVideoGallery.swf?vId=96&portalId...
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When you install the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 that was released today, and you're running Firefox 3 as your browser du choix , the next time you run Firefox you'll get the Add-Ons dialog showing you that a new add-on has been installed. Funny that...
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Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 is out now. We had a chance to work with Microsoft on some of the issues and suggestions that many of you have recommend. Microsoft has listened and come out with a good service pack. It addresses...