Monthly Archives: May 2008

Another Silverlight Tool to Download

Posted on May 28, 2008 by hofmanniac

Speaking of yesterday’s post on getting started in Silverlight development, you will also do well to download the Microsoft Expression Blend 2.5 March 2008 Preview (or as I like to call it, MEBTPFMTTEP).  Many of the labs and videos over … Continue reading →

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Silverlight 2.0

Posted on May 27, 2008 by hofmanniac

So I’ve been starting to learn more about Silverlight 2.0.  I must admit it was a bit confusing with all of the different versions of Visual Studio 2008 and Silverlight that are still out there on the web.  Finally I … Continue reading →

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Using XML in SQL

Posted on May 1, 2008 by hofmanniac

Did you know that you can use XML directly within a SQL join statement?  Here is the syntax: SELECT Column1, Column2 FROM Table1 INNER JOIN @MyXML.nodes(‘/MyElement1/MyElement2’) AS m(item) ON a.Field1 = m.item.value(‘MyElement3[1]’, ‘integer’) This assumes the @MyXML is set up … Continue reading →

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