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This is a rewrite of a post to microsoft.public.dotnet.fra... I'm having a discussion with my team leader concerning the use of SqlTransactions. We work on an ASP.Net 1.1 website. Up until now we've been using ADO.Net SqlTransactions in our business logic layer to combine several data access layer method calls into one coherent, atomic action. I am in favor of this approach as it supports isolating the business logic from the database and provides for greater code readability. My team...
I'm not 100% sure but it seems Microsoft has silently (?) launched IIS version 7.0. This is said to be a part of Windows Vista. Oddly enough I've not seen any launch announcement from MS. Maybe I just missed it? The new version of IIS is said to implement a lesson from the Apache Web Server - modularity. Functionality previously embedded in older version of IIS has been relocated to modules that can optionally be installed alongside a core IIS server. This would allow for better security as administrators...
In a recent post, Leon Langleyben described a Team Foundation Source Control "feature" that is giving users a hard time. The "feature" is that the Check Out command in TFSC no longer performs a Get Latest on the file checked out, as we were accustomed to in VSS. In the older Visual SourceSafe, when you checked out a file VSS would get the latest version of the file to your local machine and only then open the file for you to work on. This is critical when working in Exclusive Checkout Mode, which...