Thursday, January 12, 2006 - Posts
The other day there was a posting in the SqlServer.XML newsgroup asking about Serialization. While the topic can get hairy quickly, there's a fairly simple solution if you're willing to live with a few... uh... interesting side affects. There's a fair amount of code in the example, so I've posted into an article over here.
Fellow SQL Server MVP
Louis Davidson came up with pretty interesting use of
Common Table Expressions and the new pivot operator. If you use Open Schema designs and have two-dimensional facts, this one with certainly worth checking out.
While I haven't written any C++ for more than half dozen years, there are times I miss it. Last week reminded me of that -- I was at our semi-annual author's retreat and got to meet Marcus Heege. DevelopMentor is lucky to have some the best C++ folks like Scott Meyers and Marcus in our fold. I got to listen to Marcus talk a bit some of the very interesting things Microsoft has done with the C++ stack for Visual Studio 2005 that allows for the blending of native and managed C++ code. Marcus regularly teaches our Essential C++/CLI course, of course, but he's also got a nice web tutorial on the topic now available from the MSDN C++ Dev Center. Definitely worth a look if you're interested in leveraging .NET but can't give up the power and performance of native C++ code.