How to nest transactions nicely - "begin transaction" v... Brian Biales, January 1, 0001 Do you write stored procedures that might be used by others? And those others may or may not have already started a transaction? And your SP does several things, but if any of them fail, you have to undo ... How to nest transactions nicely - "begin transaction" v... 0 0 4
Development Quirk From ASP.NET Dynamic Compilation jkauffman, January 1, 0001 The Problem I got a compilation error in my ASP.NET MVC3 project that tested my sanity today. (As always, names are changed to protect the innocent) The type or namespace name 'FishViewModel' does not ... Development Quirk From ASP.NET Dynamic Compilation 0 0 0
Team Explorer Everywhere 2010 now Free..! Ravi, January 1, 0001 Yes, now more ways to get connected to TFS 2010. Up until now, if you have to connect to TFS 2010 from other platforms - be it Linux, Mac, Solaris etc., you had to purchase a CAL (Client Access License) ... Team Explorer Everywhere 2010 now Free..! 0 0 0
Dream Build Play: Do a little dance because it’s dancing ti... George Clingerman, January 1, 0001 Microsoft is running another Dream Build Play contest and once again I’m entering. (You can enter too by registering here –> https://www.dreambuildplay.... I’ve entered every year ... Dream Build Play: Do a little dance because it’s dancing ti... 0 0 9
Using HTML5 Today part 1–Simplify your syntax Steve Albers, January 1, 0001 Simplify your HTML Syntax This is the first in the series of demos from the “Using HTML5 Today” talk. One of the great features HTML5 offers is the chance to minimize some of the longer tags in your template, ... Using HTML5 Today part 1–Simplify your syntax 0 0 2
Solving SharePoint 2010 Setup Errors Manually Agha Usman Ahmed, January 1, 0001 If you are installing SharePoint 2010 on a new box you might see the Setup Errors notification from the installer. In my case, I am using Windows Server 2008 R2, but I have seen the similar Error on Windows ... Solving SharePoint 2010 Setup Errors Manually 0 0 2
UnitTesting Controller DataAnnotation Validation in MVC3 : ModelS... 80n, January 1, 0001 Testing for ModelState.IsValid when unit testing your controller is not straightforward, since the Model Binding is responsible for validating you model. But Model Binding happens in OnActionExecuted filter ... UnitTesting Controller DataAnnotation Validation in MVC3 : ModelS... 0 0 3
.NET developers finally get their HTML5 Mobile Framework Webgui, January 1, 0001 The new mobile framework we released today extends to Enterprise Mobility the revolution that Visual WebGui brought to Enterprise RIA Applications. Just like Visual WebGui for Web, the new Enterprise Mobile ... .NET developers finally get their HTML5 Mobile Framework 0 0 6
Copy to local drive before running installations Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 I've downloaded Windows Identity Foundation from http://www.microsoft.com/do... when I was trying to install, it returned ---------------------------... ... Copy to local drive before running installations 0 0 0
Cats Paws - walking across the page - jQuery TJ, January 1, 0001 This is just a little script to have cat paws walking across the page using jQuery.I searched for something similar, but couldn’t find anything so this is what I ended up with… <!DOCTYPE html><html><hea... ... Cats Paws - walking across the page - jQuery 0 0 1
SQL Server 2012 Training Kit TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 The Training Kit videos for SQL Server 2012 are available at http://social.technet.micro... ... SQL Server 2012 Training Kit 0 0 0
SSIS 2012: How to Share Cache Among Multiple Packages Compudicted, January 1, 0001 Prior to SSIS 2012 it was not possible to re-use or share the same cache across packages. What that meant is if you created a cache you will be able to consume it only in the very package where the cache ... SSIS 2012: How to Share Cache Among Multiple Packages 0 0 2
Extract substrings starting with known text from long lines Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 I’ve received a .csv report from TripWire logs, where each entry is a long text strings.I needed to extract some substring from each row, e.g “ErrorCode: ABC1234” where preceding text is constant, but ... Extract substrings starting with known text from long lines 0 0 0
Packaging custom checkin policies for Visual Studio using VSIX terje, January 1, 0001 Deployment of custom checkin policies can be done using either an MSI or VSIX. There are many reasons to prefer using the VSIX format. It is more lightweight, and thus more suitable for small components ... Packaging custom checkin policies for Visual Studio using VSIX 0 0 7
Remote Work: Placeshift and Stay Highly Collaborative Part 1 Robz / Fervent Coder, January 1, 0001 The biggest complaint most remote workers have in regards to working on a team? Feeling disconnected. The biggest complaint an office has about remote workers? They forget the remote workers are there ... Remote Work: Placeshift and Stay Highly Collaborative Part 1 0 0 2
CodePlex downloads without strong name for an assembly Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 I wanted to use http://cache.codeplex.com/ in my solution, but it caused compile errorAssembly generation failed -- Referenced assembly does not have a strong nameREASON: When you compile an assembly with ... CodePlex downloads without strong name for an assembly 0 0 0
PowerShell script to find where in a site collection a specific f... Steve Clements, January 1, 0001 It’s not an uncommon task to want to find out in what webs you have a specific feature enabled. This little script does just that, taking 2 params (site collection url, feature name) and simple output ... PowerShell script to find where in a site collection a specific f... 0 0 1
Organization & Architecture UNISA Studies - Chap 12 MarkPearl, January 1, 0001 Learning Outcomes Describe the internal structure of the CPU in general Describe the register organization of the x86/Pentium Describe what an interrupt is and what happens when an interrupt occurs Describe ... Organization & Architecture UNISA Studies - Chap 12 0 0 0
Database Hardware CPU Licensing vs Performance and Fast Track Dat... Kevin Shyr, January 1, 0001 This is just one of those cool post which are not written as often as it should be. Hats off to Glenn Berry for stating it so clearly for all BI / database developers.http://sqlserver... ... Database Hardware CPU Licensing vs Performance and Fast Track Dat... 0 0 0
Drag & Drop Web Parts in SharePoint 2010 Leonard Mwangi, January 1, 0001 One of the things that I’ve heard people complain over the years after the release of SharePoint 2010 is the disappearance of Drag & Drop web parts capability. This feature was useful because it allowed ... Drag & Drop Web Parts in SharePoint 2010 0 0 0
Performance tips - GZIP compression AnkitAgrawal, January 1, 0001 Ankit Normal Ankit 3 9 2012-03-08T14:34:00Z 2012-03-08T14:36:00Z 1 395 2255 18 5 2645 12.00 Clean Clean false false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable ... Performance tips - GZIP compression 0 0 0
Why you shouldn't add methods to interfaces in APIs simonc, January 1, 0001 It is an oft-repeated maxim that you shouldn't add methods to a publically-released interface in an API. Recently, I was hit hard when this wasn't followed. As part of the work on ApplicationMetrics, I've ... Why you shouldn't add methods to interfaces in APIs 0 0 2
Using Redgate ANTS Performance Profiler to guide optimization Kyle Burns, January 1, 0001 With as often as I write code that does not perform as well as I would like for it to, I can’t believe how hard it is to write slow code on purpose! My last post gave a mile-high overview of the new version ... Using Redgate ANTS Performance Profiler to guide optimization 0 0 1
RadGrid PagerStyle in Code Behind Bunch, January 1, 0001 Recently I ran into an issue where the paging text in a RadGrid control needed to be customizable. In my case I was specifically looking at the "Page size" and "xx items in yy pages" text. Getting around ... RadGrid PagerStyle in Code Behind 0 0 0
MVC 4 Beta Web Api: Bug with Binding Route Values when using a cu... Justin Hoffman, January 1, 0001 During the upgrade of a solution from the Web Api Preview 6 to MVC 4 Beta Web Api, I encountered a bug with a custom MediaTypeFormatter. In the Api controller I had a need to take the posted content object ... MVC 4 Beta Web Api: Bug with Binding Route Values when using a cu... 0 0 9
SharePoint 2010 set ‘Start this workflow to approve publish... Steve Clements, January 1, 0001 Took me a little while to figure this one out, you’ve assigned your workflow to a library and you can set all other other flags like “AllowStartChange” and “AllowStartCreate”, but cant see how to set “Start ... SharePoint 2010 set ‘Start this workflow to approve publish... 0 0 0
Top 10+ SSIS 2012 Improvements Compudicted, January 1, 0001 If you have not heard the latest technical news yet, the SQL Server 2012 Virtual Launch event is today March 8, 2012! Register to not to miss this opportunity to interact with technology experts and win ... Top 10+ SSIS 2012 Improvements 0 0 16
CTTDNUG’s Mobile + Cloud App Workshop–Wrap Up Lori Lalonde, January 1, 0001 After months of plotting and planning and organizing the logistics to host a full day workshop for the local area .NET developers/enthusiasts (refer to my post, Trials and Tribulations of Running a Full ... CTTDNUG’s Mobile + Cloud App Workshop–Wrap Up 0 0 1
ALMing in Hinglish 1-Exploratory Testing in VS11 with Nivedita Ba... Tarun Arora, January 1, 0001 What is ALMing in Hinglish => Introduction ???? ?????? ??? ???????? ???? ?? ????? ?????? ???????? ??????? ?? ???? ???. ???????? ???? ??????? ???????? ??????? ???? ?? ?? ???? ???, ?? ???????? ??????? ... ALMing in Hinglish 1-Exploratory Testing in VS11 with Nivedita Ba... 0 0 1
Introduction to ALMing in Hinglish Tarun Arora, January 1, 0001 ????? ??? ??????? ??? ???? ?????? ???????? 11 ????? ?? ??????????? ???? ?? ?? 1000 ?? ???? ??? ??????? ???? ??? ??. ?? ?? ???? ??????? ???? ?? ??? ??? ?? ??? ?? ???? ??? ??? ???? ?? ???. ??? ???????? ??? ... Introduction to ALMing in Hinglish 0 0 0
The gestures of Windows 8 (Consumer preview): part 1 Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 This blog post started as a simple one, but grew to be quite large and time consuming. I am splitting it, because I really want to publish the first findings already. Stay tuned for more! I am sure that ... The gestures of Windows 8 (Consumer preview): part 1 0 0 0
Dream.Build.Play 2012 Registration Now Open! Michael B. McLaughlin, January 1, 0001 Registration for this year’s Dream.Build.Play competition is now open! Head over to https://www.dreambuildplay.... for more information and to register. This year’s DBP includes not only ... Dream.Build.Play 2012 Registration Now Open! 0 0 0
ThrowIfMaxHttpCollectionKeysExceeded error message when doing pos... Vipin, January 1, 0001 Microsoft recently (12-29-2011) released an update to address several serious security vulnerabilities in the .NET Framework. One of the fixes introduced by MS11-100 temporarily mitigates a potential DoS ... ThrowIfMaxHttpCollectionKeysExceeded error message when doing pos... 0 0 19
Using LINQ to Twitter with Windows Phone Joe Mayo, January 1, 0001 The most recent release of LINQ to Twitter included support for Windows Phone. It’s important to note that only 7.1 is supported – the rationale being that 7.1 (Mango) introduced support for IQueryable, ... Using LINQ to Twitter with Windows Phone 0 0 0
Reload back to XP3 Ken, January 1, 0001 I like to go back to a fresh install every now and then. Especially with kids who load up junk/spam/Adobe on our family PCs. I recently went back to Windows XP SP3 on an old Dell. I then jumped into Windows ... Reload back to XP3 0 0 1
Someone opened the floodgates at Microsoft Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 This past week was just massive in the amount of Betas, evaluations, review guides and educational material that were released. We saw Windows 8 come out in a Customer Preview, the same for Windows 8 Server. ... Someone opened the floodgates at Microsoft 0 0 1
O'Reilly Deal of the Day - 2/Mar/2012 - Programming Microsoft® AS... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Today's O'Relley Deal of the day at http://shop.oreilly.com/pro... is Programming Microsoft® ASP.NET 4by Dino Esposito. "Completely reengineered for ASP.NET 4—this definitive guide deftly ... O'Reilly Deal of the Day - 2/Mar/2012 - Programming Microsoft® AS... 0 0 0
Visual Studio 11 Beta available for download TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Scott Hanselman has posted an excellent article at http://www.hanselman.com/bl... on Visual Studio 11 Beta which is now available for download ... Visual Studio 11 Beta available for download 0 0 0
Exchange 2010 UM and virtualization requirements Kay Sellenrode, January 1, 0001 A large portion of my work consists of designing Exchange 2010 environments for customers all around the world.Recently I was working on an assignment where we wanted to implement Exchange UM to replace ... Exchange 2010 UM and virtualization requirements 0 0 1
Creating a Custom SSIS Data Flow Component - an Example With a Pu... Compudicted, January 1, 0001 Last week I was asked to mask or obfuscate a large volume of data residing in a production database for our software quality assurance team to use in testing some functionality. The data resided in various ... Creating a Custom SSIS Data Flow Component - an Example With a Pu... 0 0 3
PDF and CHM versions of Windows Azure Service Bus Developer Guide... Alan Smith, January 1, 0001 I’ve just added PDF and CHM versions of “Windows Azure Service Bus Developer Guide”, you can get them here. The HTML browsable version is here. I have the first delivery of my 2-day course “SOA, Connectivity ... PDF and CHM versions of Windows Azure Service Bus Developer Guide... 0 0 0
Visual Studio 11 Beta 1 is out Alois Kraus, January 1, 0001 It is about time to look at the new .NET Framework 4.5 release along with the brand new Visual Studio 11 Beta 1. Besides the new features I wanted to see if the massive performance complaints have been ... Visual Studio 11 Beta 1 is out 0 0 0
Experience with Indexed View Kevin Shyr, January 1, 0001 I had a bad experience working with Indexed view because, well, I didn't have much experience working with Indexed View. I hit 5 major issues before I finally gave up.Indexed view does not allow GETDATE() ... Experience with Indexed View 0 0 0
Visual Studio 11 (Dev 11) Beta Resources Dylan Smith, January 1, 0001 There were a couple of exciting releases yesterday (Dev 11 Beta + Win8 Consumer Preview), and a whole bunch of news/blogs/articles to help bring you up to date. Here’s a collection of useful resources ... Visual Studio 11 (Dev 11) Beta Resources 0 0 0
NASM – writing to the console MarkPearl, January 1, 0001 If you are new to NASM like me – you might find the following code snippets useful just to get started… (this is targeted to the Windows environment, it may be different in Linux) Printing the number 6 ... NASM – writing to the console 0 0 0
NOW AVAILABLE: Visual Studio 11 Beta ALM Virtual Machine and Hand... John Alexander, January 1, 0001 From Brian Keller: “I’m very pleased to announce the availability of the Visual Studio 11 Beta ALM Virtual Machine along with 6 hands-on-labs / demo scripts. This marks an exciting milestone in our journey ... NOW AVAILABLE: Visual Studio 11 Beta ALM Virtual Machine and Hand... 0 0 5
Entity Framework 4.1 Code First- Use MSSQLSERVER instead of EXPRE... MagnusKarlsson, January 1, 0001 This is my first blog post and will be short and concise. I will get back to formatting later.Edit: Here is the same explanation but from MSDN :)http://blogs.msdn.com/b/a... ... Entity Framework 4.1 Code First- Use MSSQLSERVER instead of EXPRE... 0 0 0
Why the Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 BizTalk Adapter doesn’t w... Daniel Hester, January 1, 0001 Microsoft Dynamics 4.0 has a 32-bit BizTalk Adapter which is not compatible with 64-bit versions of Windows or BizTalk. Under Windows Server 2003, the AX 4.0 Adapter would not even install on the 64-bit ... Why the Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 BizTalk Adapter doesn’t w... 0 0 0
Setting SharePoint regional time zone settings Wade Salley, January 1, 0001 Recently I had a user come up and state that when they would make a new announcement the time would be off by 2 hours. They said they had checked the servers and time settings were fine and could there ... Setting SharePoint regional time zone settings 0 0 2
Oh no! My padding's invalid! simonc, January 1, 0001 Recently, I've been doing some work involving cryptography, and encountered the standard .NET CryptographicException: 'Padding is invalid and cannot be removed.' Searching on StackOverflow produces 57 ... Oh no! My padding's invalid! 0 0 2