Category Development

Using NOLOCK to avoid dead-locks

I want to talk about NOLOCK. NOLOCK is a SQL Server T-SQL hint which you can give to the compiler in your SQL to tell it that it needn’t bother locking the records it’s going to read. NOLOCK is like…

Demo: Norwich School Viewer

I’ve been playing around with the Silverlight PivotViewer, and used some education data from data.gov.uk to give a different perspective of education establishments in Norwich. The Norwich Schools Viewer allows you to find different schools, Early Years settings and other…

Silverlight PivotViewer: so fast to develop

On Friday, I created a working demo of the PivotViewer that demo’d in the Silverlight Firestarter keynote, which I blogged about a couple of days ago. Apart from being a ‘wow’ demo, I was keen to see how easy it…

Silverlight Firestarter: Silverlight 5

I’ve been watching the Silverlight Firestarter event tonight, via live stream. I’ve not seen all of it, and I’m still watching it now, but this is my list of take-aways from the keynote and some of the other sessions. I’ll…

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