Happy Birthday, New CIS!
March 27, 2008 by mike · Leave a Comment
The New Construction Industry Scheme will be officially one year old in two weeks; on April 6th 2008. After a very shaky start with plenty of mass confusion, hysteria and technical glitches, have HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and the construction industry finally gotten their systems “bedded down” for new CIS compliance or are there still problems?
Windows Vista SP1 ready now, come and get it!
March 18, 2008 by mike · Leave a Comment
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is now available to the public. It can be downloaded either through Windows Update, or via a standalone installer. Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is arguably the most hotly anticipated service release of any software product in history, and promises to make vast improvements in the reliability and performance of the operating system as well as making some changes to support modern and upcoming software and hardware standards.
Microsoft: Please allow Null values to be returned from strongly typed datasets!
March 18, 2008 by mike · 5 Comments
Recently while working on an application created in Visual Studio 2005 (also applies to 2008) on the .NET 2.0 framework I noticed a strange error when running with live customer data. The error was, “Failed to enable constraints. One or more rows contain values violating non-null, unique, or foreign-key constraints”: Read more
