Just found this article which shows that a 1000 user license approx. is about AUD$11,000 and is AUD$107,000 for Internet access which doesn't need CALs. Pretty competitive against Hummingbird DM/RedDot and Interwoven Worksite/Teamsite combinations. Be interesting to see how the market picks up in Perth on this stuff and how soon. This Microsoft page covers what you need to buy product set wise. more...

You can add your own custom shortcut to build only the current project (and its dependencies). Go to Tools | Options and under Environment, click Keyboard. Type Build.RebuildSelection in the ‘Show commands containing:’ text box. Then type in your desired shortcut in the ‘Press shortcut keys:’ text box (mine was CTRL+B, CTRL+P). Finally, click the Assign button. Apparently the C# keyboard ma more...

Cursors are the bane of performance life for me at the moment! I've been looking at rewriting some stored procedures with temp tables and found this article which clarifys things for me a bit more between variable tables and temp tables. more...

Big talk around this area which I have recently experienced first hand on the project I am on...this article has a great explanation of it. Most definately the way to develop code. more...

Being having some fun with ClickOnce deployment using Mage and some certificate signing. Found a good article by Brian Noye's discussing this. more...

I've been looking into Release management and versioning assemblies in .Net 2.0.  Joshua shows a good way of using a nant script to do this automatically. Joe's blog explains how you can do this in one location using a SolutionInfo.cs file, but this is not automated on the actual version numbers. I am using CruiseControl currently, I somehow need to integrate the build label in cc.net into the as more...

Was looking for the quickest way to list all the web servers on a server with their IDs:C:\Inetpub\AdminScripts\adsutil.vbs enum w3svc /p more...