July, 2011

For one of my little projects at work, I’ve been creating a utility which will run as a child process which is just hosted as a console application. It prints a lot of output to console, and it would be kinda useful to be able to capture all the output from the child process, either in a text file, or by reading it in the parent process, or both. I know you can capture child process output in the parent process, or redirect it to a file by passing in a file handle to the CreateProcess API. However...

This blog is back. Some time ago, I left the Workflow Designer team and joined the SQL Server Analysis Services team. Immediately, we got busy with SQL Server Denali. With no public release of the stuff I was working on, I (rather uncharacteristically) didn't have much to say, so I let this blog die off. Now things have changed. SQL Server Denali CTP3 is forthcoming, and with that is the first public CTP with major new Analysis Services functionality. The vision and roadmap post gives you a taste...