Sometimes User interfaces can’t provide a solution for every scenario where you might need additional functionality by customization. One area where you might come across this is if you’re trying to use Oracle on an 64bit machine or in a custom Oracle instance. If you are running Windows XP there is a good chance you can get away with using the built in Connection Editor and use CodeSmith to connect to your Oracle Schema.

There may be a time when you need to use Extended ASCII Codes in your CodeSmith Generator Templates. If you have already tried using them into your template you have more than likely ran into the following problem. When a user first creates a template an Encoding attribute is not added by default to the CodeTemplate directive. So when a user starts adding characters in the Extended ASCII range, they will run into the following problem without first setting the encoding attribute. If you…

An update is available for SQL Server 2008. A list of all the fixes can be found here.

I’m pretty sad that I will not be attending Microsoft PDC. There are a lot of interesting sessions this year that sound appealing to me. For a complete list visit the Microsoft PDC 2008 site.

Windows Live™ Tools for Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008 are a set of control add-ins to make incorporating Windows Live services into your Web application easier with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer Express 2008.