Thursday, August 26, 2004 - Posts
I'm going off on rant. Deal with it.
Custom sections in Web.Config are pretty cool since you can use them to define easily changed configuration settings for applications outside of the bounds of <appSettings>.
So long as you want to use simple data structures like dictionaries, NamedValue pairs and so on.
Originally I though, hey, here's a great solution to my problem where I can't read a file during application_OnStart -- I'll just put that XML into a custom section.
Uh. No. It doesn't appear that there's a handler that supports reading in a whole section as an XML document fragment.
Well, there's one for the Orcas wishlist, I guess. Meantime its back to square one for me.
Contrary to apperances, I am not a Jim Rome Clone but I am pleased to announce yet another tour stop.
or as Rome might say...
Who: .NET and/or SQL Geeks in the New England Area.
Chowds... come correct.
What: Thom Robbin's Code Camp II: The Return.
Epic!
When: 16 and 17 October
Nice... Wonder if anybody will be distracted by the Sox or Pats...
Where: MS office in Waltham. Register Here.
Huge.
Why: I'll be covering SQL Server 2005's XML and CLR features, then doing a chalk-talk on SQL Express.
Classic.
How: Watch this channel for details.
War Waltham. Rack Me! Out.
Suppose you want to use an Express instance via ODBC (or other MDAC-support API, I gather) on Remote Machine. Where do you get the SQL Native Access Client (SNAC) installable from?
Its an MSI in the SETUP directory called sqlncli.msi
Thanks to John Stacey for pointing this out.
Block it out now.
Plug in. Sync Up. Drill Down.
Stay tunned.