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I don't have DT and have this problem... any solution for that?

ummm, Im not very good with computers! If you can tell me step by step process for this i would greatly appreciate it. thank you.

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Thanks for this post. I manage a MOSS 2007 site with remote users accessing it via the internet on both PCs and Macs. A few Mac OS X users are unable to access it after upgrading to Firefox 3.0. Any suggestions?

Hi,
The alt.net crew should really have known and heard the v2 commitments around process and deliverables (POCO a la NH) and so i can see little for them to gain by the letter except notoriety. I think the best thing they can so is rally around Ayende in beefing up NH support for linq and maybe writing a decent designer tool for NH!

Thanks, first page on google, looks like it'll solve my problem.

Fiddler also creates a proxy on localhost::8888.  You can set Firefox to use that proxy in the options dialog - which is probably what BrowserPAC is doing anyway.

Thanks!  I use notepad2 for all code editing outside visual studio.

The Entity Framework Team has started work on Version 2 and invites people to take part in the design process/give feedback

http://blogs.msdn.com/efdesign/archive/2008/06/23/transparency-in-the-design-process.aspx#comments

The design of the framework entities is that they are data only, causing issues in maintainability and making it difficult or impossible to implement business objects or more “real-world” objects. 
Keith > Wrong, you use partial classes to extend the generated aspects of the entities. This is explicitly encouraged and we use it a lot for core business rules and validation

The design of the framework entities is that they cannot be persistence ignorant, so things like unit testing become next to impossible because you cannot test the model without the database (for instance).

KP > You can use the repository pattern around the EF and avoid using the object context directly. You are then only dependent on EntityObject, EntityReference and EntityCollection. i fyou are sensible about it and don't work on object context, your refactoring when vnext comes along will be significantly reduced.

Lazy loading is not supported at all and requires a lot of extra code to make work.  This confuses me.  I thought I saw "lazy-loading" demoed internally but I might be mistaken.
KP > By design, but pretty easy to wire it up, not really a "lot of extra code". I worked with NH too, and the time saved using the designer with EF more than makes up for it:)

Shared, canonical models contradict software best practices.  This appears to be related to using a single shared model for multiple contexts in the EF, rather than multiple models, one for each individual context. 
KP > Well, it may be a criticism of the vision of EF, but not of its core ORM functionality. Our clients are interested in the reporting aspects on their domains without excessive code.

Excessive merge conflicts with source control.  Apparently, since the diagram contains the model and the visualization, it causes tons of merge conflicts when a team is using it.
KP > A fair point, but we've settled on having a 'domain master', not a biggy for a smallish team, but perhaps larger would have problems..

I had trouble getting Part 6 to work until I tried "basketball" as you recommended.  Now for payback: there is a great SilverLight video on ADO.NET Data Services at: 

http://services.digg.com/stories/topic/spears?count=20&appkey=http%3A%2F%2Fscottgu.com

The title of the video is: 

Basic Silverlight Client for ADO.NET Data Services

By the way, did you know that ADO.NET Data Services is a specialized application of WCF for the Linq to entities framework?   Also, the UK author on his web site has another video showing how to use LINQ to query ADO.NET Data Services. Hot! Hot! Hot!

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Thanks! It is very helpful

I think the CD-ROM issue is bigger than people think it is.  Every game I've purchased over the last 5 years or so has opened a window that hosted IE to display HTML content.  How am I going to update my software if I can't even get it installed once IE8 is on my PC?

The idealist answer is to have the vendor provide another CD or an electronic download with updated content.  However, from the vendor's perspective, the problem is with Microsoft, who just broke their backwards compatiblity.

I'm not saying that having IE8 in standards mode by default is wrong, but there are significant implications to such a decision.

I just posted something on my blog with a few thoughts partly in response to you saying Objective-C hurt:
http://www.innerexception.com/2008/03/iphone-sdk-thoughts.html

Couldn't agree with you more =)

Hi Brian,

thanks for the good advice - I have just started a blog entirely devoted to the subject of information overload (<a href="http://www.managingio.com">ManagingIO.com</a>) so if you have any other thoughts on this or comments - feedback is always welcome!

Cheers, Nicolas

if starcraft 2 ever releases I will drool myself to death...

Hi Brian,
You are making excellent points! There is so much to read and very little time to do it.

I would like to add that summarization tools can help with information overload.

Summarization helps with absorbing large amount of information quickly and without being lost in unnecessary details. 

An example of a powerful summarization tools is Context Organizer from http://www.contextdiscovery.com. At a click of the button it instantly finds the most significant content on web pages, in Google search results and in office documents.  It is a simple add-in to web browsers and Microsoft Office.

If you had a moment to try it out and give me your feedback that would be greatly appreciated.
Warm regards from Ottawa,
Henry

Leopard is working just fine for me with Windows XP Pro.

This is great! Thanks Brian.

The iPhone is wonderful, AT&T Edge is horrid! But they are expected to have 3G iPhones next year. Wait till then and it should be what you are looking for.

Hey brain,

I have same problem but the thing is on the first image you have list of available permissions

No list of privileges appears for me on my vista machine?

can you help me on this ?
tech2hard@gmail.com

I got but a small taste, but it was quite delicious.  I really enjoyed working there.  Everyone was nice, helpful, and wicked smart.  I'm glad to see you're still having a good time, Brian.

Jim B-G

Are you trying to deploy packages to a cluster or install the SSIS server on a cluster?  I have seen SQL Server 2005 clustered for purposes of availability, however SSIS is installed separately and is usually only installed on one server (it's own if possible).

So when will you have Worms fully implemented in Silverlight?

That would tide me over till I finally get an XBox 360 (or maybe that should be till Casey lets me get an XBox 360).

Doug

Super stuff - works like a charm.

Cheers

Thaks a lot, i was broking my head trying to access to User Provisioning Tool.