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Microsoft pushed MVC to Beta!

Tonight microsoft has officially pushed ASP.NET MVC to Beta status.
Over the next few days I’ll be converting my CRM codebase to the new beta.
I’ll keep everyone posted on what has changed.

Apple…Stop shooting yourself in the face!

“The shortest straw has been pulled for you”
Just when you thought Apple couldn’t mismanage it’s App Store any more, they smother the release of a book educating developers on how to use their SDK.
You can’t make it up…
Developers are jumping ship by the hundreds to the new open Android platform that promises to give them [...]

WOOHOO! Visual Studio 2008 is now being downloaded.

MSDN Released Visual Studio 2008 RTM to all MSDN Subscribers. I’m downloading the 3.1GB iso right now.
I’ll give a mini-review after i’ve had time to play with it over the Thanksgiving holiday.

Output parameters and dynamic sql

I came across something new for the first time today. Dynamic SQL with output parameters.
Here is how you do it in MSSQL.
DECLARE @totals INT
EXEC sp_executesql N’SELECT @totalCount = count(*) from sysobjects’, N’@totalCount INT OUTPUT’, @totals OUTPUT
print ‘Totals: ‘ + convert(varchar,@totals)

Visual Studio 2008 will be released in November.

Well you know you are an extreme geek when you are excited for a new release of an IDE.
I’m really looking forward to the integrated AJAX tools and the built in MVC framework.
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2202822/microsoft-sets-date-fro-visual