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Set the DateModified in the Repository 0 0 1 Entity Framework UI Automation: Automating key strokes using .NET and Win32 API Om Talsania, January 10, 2013 Hacks 'N' Tips Win32 API offers a lot of functionality for Windows platform, which the .NET Framework doesn’t have for good reason – One of them being ‘managed’. However, that doesn’t stop us from doing some unsafe things! ... UI Automation: Automating key strokes using .NET and Win32 API 0 0 4 Hacks 'N' Tips Is Android Good For Consumers? Tim Murphy, January 10, 2013 Microsoft Rant This Christmas our household got its first Android devices. They were a couple of off-brand tablets and I have come to hate them. We bought them because they were cheaper. In this post I will be looking ... Is Android Good For Consumers? 0 0 4 Microsoft Rant XenApp -How to replicate printers using PowerShell Waclaw Chrabaszcz, January 10, 2013 PowerShell XenApp In XenApp 6.5 you have no GUI for printer replication. 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JoshReuben, January 10, 2013 C++ I've been reading through the C++ Cookbook (an oldie but a goodie – I assume that 99% of C++ out there is not modern C++, and modern C++ does not mean you don’t need to be able to grok templates, pointers ... I didnt know how to do that in C++ ! 0 0 3 C++ ToolClickManager for Infragistics MightyZot, January 9, 2013 C# Tips and Tricks Infragistics controls are great for fast and cool UI development. They have controls for toolbars, menus, docking, etc. The Infragistics toolbars and menus are integrated, allowing you to use a single ... ToolClickManager for Infragistics 0 0 0 C# Tips and Tricks Windows Azure Mobile Services Update Clint Edmonson, January 9, 2013 News It has been less than four months since we introduced the first public preview for Windows Azure Mobile Services and in this short time we have seen continual improvements to the service offering including: ... 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My Thoughts on the future of BizTalk - Post BizTalk Summit 2012 0 0 11 BizTalk AJI Report #21 | Russ Fustino of GrapeCity Talks About Windows 8 Development Jeff Julian, January 8, 2013 Russ Fustino, Senior Developer Evangelist at GrapeCity, sits down with us to close the Iowa Code Camp to talk about Windows 8 development. Russ is a former Microsoft Developer Evangelist and host of the ... AJI Report #21 | Russ Fustino of GrapeCity Talks About Windows 8 Development 0 0 0 Fundamental Aspects of Methods L. Charles Andersen, January 8, 2013 One of the things that I consider fundamental concerns a method or function. Historically, a method does exactly one thing, which its name describes. It starts at the top and ends at the bottom; i.e., ... Fundamental Aspects of Methods 0 0 0 Fundamental Pride in Code Craftsmanship L. Charles Andersen, January 8, 2013 I regularly rant about programmers not knowing the fundamentals without giving any concrete examples. An acronym that I coined with an esteemed colleague during one such rant is FBC (Fully Buzzword Compliant). ... Fundamental Pride in Code Craftsmanship 0 0 0 First Chicago IT Architects Meeting Of 2013 Tim Murphy, January 8, 2013 Chicago Information Technology Architects Group Architecture It seems we all survived the end of the world. Welcome to 2013. The Chicago IT Architects Group is kicking off the year with our first meeting on January 15th. Shankar Ramanchandran will be discussing ... First Chicago IT Architects Meeting Of 2013 0 0 0 Chicago Information Technology Architects Group Architecture Include your JavaScript references in the correct order Aligned, January 7, 2013 JavaScript I was stuck for 2 hours on this. I was using Wijmo library and was including the complete library before the open js file. I kept getting’Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'formatString' of undefined’. ... Include your JavaScript references in the correct order 0 0 3 JavaScript Two default gateways–how to force “the other one” to be the preferred route… Brian Biales, January 7, 2013 Windows Vista Windows Windows 7 Windows 8 I’ve been fighting this issue for a long time, and just the other day discovered the solution to my problem. Here is the issue… My laptop is connected to my home / work / internet via its wireless (WiFi) ... Two default gateways–how to force “the other one” to be the preferred route… 0 0 0 Windows Vista Windows Windows 7 Windows 8 Dream: Limiting Ourselves Due To Fear D'Arcy Lussier, January 7, 2013 Had a dream last night. In it, I was in a packed diner when two guys brandished knives and started collecting people’s wallets. They instructed everyone to sit and stay calm and nobody would get hurt. ... 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How to preserve state across pages in a Windows 8 app 0 0 1 C# Visual Studio 2012 Windows 8 Windows Store eBay Extending WatiN 3: Detecting if a PDF Has Opened In a New Window Steve Wilkes, January 4, 2013 ASP.NET ASP.NET MVC C# Programming Practices UI Testing Patterns WatiN lets you attach to browser windows so you can verify their contents and close them as part of your tests, but the standard API doesn't detect windows with PDF documents in them. Adapted from this ... Extending WatiN 3: Detecting if a PDF Has Opened In a New Window 0 0 1 ASP.NET ASP.NET MVC C# Programming Practices UI Testing Patterns Managing App-V 5 Virtual Applications with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 KeithMayer, January 4, 2013 In today's TechNet Radio show, I'm back again for another episode in our System Center 2012 ConfigMgr SP1 series with Wally Mead, Senior Program Manager from the System Center Client Management team and ... Managing App-V 5 Virtual Applications with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 0 0 0 APress Deal of the Day 4/Jan/2013 - Metro Revealed: Building Windows 8 apps with XAML and C# TATWORTH, January 4, 2013 Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Metro Revealed: Building Windows 8 apps with XAML and C#"The key features of developing for Microsoft’s eagerly anticipated ... APress Deal of the Day 4/Jan/2013 - Metro Revealed: Building Windows 8 apps with XAML and C# 0 0 0 5 Years of SharePoint Saturday MOSSLover, January 4, 2013 Five years ago I drove down in an old Cadillac to Virginia Beach, VA from Raleigh, NC with Michael Lotter, a coworker named Nas, and Josh Carlisle. Now hundreds of events have occurred in places like Perth, ... 5 Years of SharePoint Saturday 0 0 0 So much in motion! James Michael Hare, January 3, 2013 My Blog Thanks for all your patience during my move to a new job and a new area. 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Excel ODBC on OSX, Connect to SQL Server 0 0 0 Presenting VS2012 at VBUG Bristol on 16 Jan 2013 Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 3, 2013 ALM MVPBuzz Tfs2012 Let’s start with a few interesting facts about Bristol, Bristol is located just 120 miles west of London. It is the largest city in the south west of England. Bristol is a 45 mile trip across the Bristol ... Presenting VS2012 at VBUG Bristol on 16 Jan 2013 0 0 0 ALM MVPBuzz Tfs2012 Page: 7|8|9|10|11|12|13|14|15|16|17|18|19|20|21|22|23|24|25|26
Blog Goals For 2013 Tim Murphy, January 14, 2013 Misc It is the beginning of a new year. No better time to take a look what we want to accomplish over the next year. My first goal is to have more Windows 8 and Windows Phone development content. This is a ... Blog Goals For 2013 0 0 1 Misc
Reasons to Attend a Mobile App Development Workshop Lori Lalonde, January 14, 2013 Mobile app development is hot right now and the need for skilled developers is only going to increase over time. This arena requires a mind shift for most traditional desktop and web-based developers. ... Reasons to Attend a Mobile App Development Workshop 0 0 7
CodeMash Content Chris Gardner, January 13, 2013 Site C# XNA Xbox 360 Speaking Visual Studio Greetings. Just a quick note that 99.9% of my CodeMash content is now up. Look in the sidebar under Projects, and got to GitHub Repositories. Or, if you're lazy, click this: https://github.com/freestyl... ... CodeMash Content 0 0 0 Site C# XNA Xbox 360 Speaking Visual Studio
Using Lambda’s to Isolate Temporal Coupling Dylan Smith, January 13, 2013 One of the most awkward things to deal with in code is Temporal Coupling. It leads to messy fragile code, that is difficult to maintain. What do I mean by Temporal Coupling? When you consume a class/component ... Using Lambda’s to Isolate Temporal Coupling 0 0 3
Cisco VPN client 5.x windows 8 issue–SOLVED andywe, January 13, 2013 Tech Talk Cisco VPN has been a standard my company has used for quite some time. Although there are other VPN tools out there that you can finesse to work with Cisco client profiles and protocols, this article relates ... Cisco VPN client 5.x windows 8 issue–SOLVED 0 0 3 Tech Talk
Cowtown Code Camp T, January 13, 2013 Pier 1 Imports and the Fort Worth .net User’s Group have teamed up to create the first annual Cowtown Code Camp. It will be held at the Pier 1 headquarters in downtown Fort Worth on March 16, 2013. I am ... Cowtown Code Camp 0 0 0
Dallas Day of .NET T, January 13, 2013 Community RIA Consulting, LLC is hosting the third annual Dallas Day of .NET at the Las Colinas Country Club in Irving Texas on February 8th and 9th 2013. This year brings several highlighted speakers including ... Dallas Day of .NET 0 0 0 Community
VS12 Team Member Photos not showing in Chrome Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 13, 2013 ALM Tfs2012 Issue The Team Members photo doesn’t show up in the Members section in the Team Home Page in Team Web Access when browsing using Chrome. However, the team members photo does show up as expected when browsing ... VS12 Team Member Photos not showing in Chrome 0 0 2 ALM Tfs2012
iOS and Windows Phone Session Slides and Code Samples MOSSLover, January 12, 2013 Here are my slides and code samples from SPS UK, SPS STL, and SPS VB: https://skydrive.live.com/#cid=8E2654C5F01E6069&id=8E2654C5F01E6069%21138Enjoy guys... iOS and Windows Phone Session Slides and Code Samples 0 0 0
CodeMash 2013 Fun Mike Benkovich, January 12, 2013 This week was my 2nd visit to CodeMash in Sandusky OH, where I spoke on Building with the Microsoft Data Stack. We covered a lot of ground and had a great conversation about the various choices a developer ... CodeMash 2013 Fun 0 0 0
3D Programming Concepts JoshReuben, January 12, 2013 2 years ago I built & presented a course on XNA 4: http://www.e4d.co.il/Events... XNA may be dead & buried, but the 3D programming concepts are tech-stack-agnostic ... 3D Programming Concepts 0 0 1
Add a drop shadow across the top of your page. Nick Harrison, January 11, 2013 Stylish musings This is a subtle trick to add some depth to your page. By adding a drop shadow across the top of your page, it looks like the page slides up under the toolbar. Subtle affect but nice and easy to achieve. ... Add a drop shadow across the top of your page. 0 0 0 Stylish musings
Step-by-Step: Build Linux VMs in the Cloud for FREE with Windows Azure KeithMayer, January 11, 2013 The Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering supports running Windows virtual machines and Linux virtual machines in the Cloud. In this article, I provide step-by-step guidance for running ... Step-by-Step: Build Linux VMs in the Cloud for FREE with Windows Azure 0 0 0
Windows 8 Hackathon Scott Dorman, January 11, 2013 .NET (C#) General WCF Windows Phone Windows 8 Windows reimagined. Extraordinary apps.Combining the broad reach of Windows, best-in-class developer tools, a re-imagined user experience, and a built-in store, Windows 8 is the largest developer opportunity ... Windows 8 Hackathon 0 0 6 .NET (C#) General WCF Windows Phone Windows 8
What You Need To Know About AllowUnsafeUpdates Madhawa Karunaratne, January 11, 2013 MOSS MOSS Object Model Sharepoint 2010 Very good insight on using "AllowUnsafeUpdates" in SharePoint object model.http://hristopavlov.w... ... What You Need To Know About AllowUnsafeUpdates 0 0 0 MOSS MOSS Object Model Sharepoint 2010
Easily Add a Table of Contents to Any Web Page with jQuery Nick Harrison, January 11, 2013 Stylish musings jQuery This snippet will add a list of links to every named anchor in your web page. Each link will have an associated click event handler to animate scrolling to that section. I hope you find this useful. First ... Easily Add a Table of Contents to Any Web Page with jQuery 0 0 0 Stylish musings jQuery
Goals for 2012 Retrospective Brian T. Jackett, January 10, 2013 Personal Now in my third year of an annual tradition I have set goals (2010, 2011, 2012) and gone through retrospectives (2010, 2011). So here goes a recap on the year that was 2012 and how I stacked up against ... Goals for 2012 Retrospective 0 0 0 Personal
Set the DateModified in the Repository Aligned, January 10, 2013 Entity Framework I have database tables that have DateCreated and DateModified as DateTime types. I was getting the error (“The conversion of a datetime2 data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range value.”) ... Set the DateModified in the Repository 0 0 1 Entity Framework
UI Automation: Automating key strokes using .NET and Win32 API Om Talsania, January 10, 2013 Hacks 'N' Tips Win32 API offers a lot of functionality for Windows platform, which the .NET Framework doesn’t have for good reason – One of them being ‘managed’. However, that doesn’t stop us from doing some unsafe things! ... UI Automation: Automating key strokes using .NET and Win32 API 0 0 4 Hacks 'N' Tips
Is Android Good For Consumers? Tim Murphy, January 10, 2013 Microsoft Rant This Christmas our household got its first Android devices. They were a couple of off-brand tablets and I have come to hate them. We bought them because they were cheaper. In this post I will be looking ... Is Android Good For Consumers? 0 0 4 Microsoft Rant
XenApp -How to replicate printers using PowerShell Waclaw Chrabaszcz, January 10, 2013 PowerShell XenApp In XenApp 6.5 you have no GUI for printer replication. Add-PSSnapIn Citrix.*Get-XAPrinterDriver -Servername XAC-1Start-XAPrinterDriverR... -DriverName "Brother MFC-9970CDW Printer" -TargetServerName ... XenApp -How to replicate printers using PowerShell 0 0 0 PowerShell XenApp
GetValueOrDefault() For An Expression of Arbitrary Length Using Expression Trees Steve Wilkes, January 10, 2013 ASP.NET ASP.NET MVC C# Programming Practices Expression Trees ASP.NET MVC C# Programming Practices In my most recent project we had to support classes with fairly deep object graphs where any of the nodes could validly be null. We didn't want to have lots of 'if not null' checks everywhere, so I wrote ... GetValueOrDefault() For An Expression of Arbitrary Length Using Expression Trees 0 0 2 ASP.NET ASP.NET MVC C# Programming Practices Expression Trees ASP.NET MVC C# Programming Practices
I didnt know how to do that in C++ ! JoshReuben, January 10, 2013 C++ I've been reading through the C++ Cookbook (an oldie but a goodie – I assume that 99% of C++ out there is not modern C++, and modern C++ does not mean you don’t need to be able to grok templates, pointers ... I didnt know how to do that in C++ ! 0 0 3 C++
ToolClickManager for Infragistics MightyZot, January 9, 2013 C# Tips and Tricks Infragistics controls are great for fast and cool UI development. They have controls for toolbars, menus, docking, etc. The Infragistics toolbars and menus are integrated, allowing you to use a single ... ToolClickManager for Infragistics 0 0 0 C# Tips and Tricks
Windows Azure Mobile Services Update Clint Edmonson, January 9, 2013 News It has been less than four months since we introduced the first public preview for Windows Azure Mobile Services and in this short time we have seen continual improvements to the service offering including: ... Windows Azure Mobile Services Update 0 0 0 News
Determine all foreign keys in a database Jake Rutherford, January 9, 2013 SQL Quick script to determine all foreign keys in your SQL Server database:SELECT f.name AS ForeignKey, OBJECT_NAME(f.parent_object... AS TableName, COL_NAME(fc.parent_object_id, fc.parent_column_id) AS ColumnName, ... Determine all foreign keys in a database 0 0 2 SQL
My Thoughts on the future of BizTalk - Post BizTalk Summit 2012 Michael Stephenson, January 8, 2013 BizTalk I thought I’d brain dump a few thoughts after the recent BizTalk summit and how some of the information will help shape solutions with the customers whom I work with. BizTalk On-Premise Traditionally for ... My Thoughts on the future of BizTalk - Post BizTalk Summit 2012 0 0 11 BizTalk
AJI Report #21 | Russ Fustino of GrapeCity Talks About Windows 8 Development Jeff Julian, January 8, 2013 Russ Fustino, Senior Developer Evangelist at GrapeCity, sits down with us to close the Iowa Code Camp to talk about Windows 8 development. Russ is a former Microsoft Developer Evangelist and host of the ... AJI Report #21 | Russ Fustino of GrapeCity Talks About Windows 8 Development 0 0 0
Fundamental Aspects of Methods L. Charles Andersen, January 8, 2013 One of the things that I consider fundamental concerns a method or function. Historically, a method does exactly one thing, which its name describes. It starts at the top and ends at the bottom; i.e., ... Fundamental Aspects of Methods 0 0 0
Fundamental Pride in Code Craftsmanship L. Charles Andersen, January 8, 2013 I regularly rant about programmers not knowing the fundamentals without giving any concrete examples. An acronym that I coined with an esteemed colleague during one such rant is FBC (Fully Buzzword Compliant). ... Fundamental Pride in Code Craftsmanship 0 0 0
First Chicago IT Architects Meeting Of 2013 Tim Murphy, January 8, 2013 Chicago Information Technology Architects Group Architecture It seems we all survived the end of the world. Welcome to 2013. The Chicago IT Architects Group is kicking off the year with our first meeting on January 15th. Shankar Ramanchandran will be discussing ... First Chicago IT Architects Meeting Of 2013 0 0 0 Chicago Information Technology Architects Group Architecture
Include your JavaScript references in the correct order Aligned, January 7, 2013 JavaScript I was stuck for 2 hours on this. I was using Wijmo library and was including the complete library before the open js file. I kept getting’Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'formatString' of undefined’. ... Include your JavaScript references in the correct order 0 0 3 JavaScript
Two default gateways–how to force “the other one” to be the preferred route… Brian Biales, January 7, 2013 Windows Vista Windows Windows 7 Windows 8 I’ve been fighting this issue for a long time, and just the other day discovered the solution to my problem. Here is the issue… My laptop is connected to my home / work / internet via its wireless (WiFi) ... Two default gateways–how to force “the other one” to be the preferred route… 0 0 0 Windows Vista Windows Windows 7 Windows 8
Dream: Limiting Ourselves Due To Fear D'Arcy Lussier, January 7, 2013 Had a dream last night. In it, I was in a packed diner when two guys brandished knives and started collecting people’s wallets. They instructed everyone to sit and stay calm and nobody would get hurt. ... Dream: Limiting Ourselves Due To Fear 0 0 3
Step-by-Step: Build a FREE SharePoint 2013 Lab in the Cloud with Windows Azure KeithMayer, January 7, 2013 My good friend and colleague, Tommy Patterson, recently blogged about leveraging the Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) preview offering to build a FREE lab environment in the Cloud. You ... Step-by-Step: Build a FREE SharePoint 2013 Lab in the Cloud with Windows Azure 0 0 0
2012 in review Laurent Bugnion, January 6, 2013 .NET Expression Blend MVP Phone Silverlight Technical stuff WPF Windows 8 Windows Phone 8 Work It seems it was only yesterday that I was writing about starting my 4th year at IdentityMine, and here we are now, more than a year later. The year 2012 has been particularly interesting for all of us ... 2012 in review 0 0 10 .NET Expression Blend MVP Phone Silverlight Technical stuff WPF Windows 8 Windows Phone 8 Work
How I got burned with Automation Ids and virtualized content in XAML controls... Vincent Grondin, January 5, 2013 Not so long ago on our project at work we had to create shared steps in Microsoft Test Managerfor playback later on. The screen we used contained 2 instances of the same custom made comboboxboth displaying ... How I got burned with Automation Ids and virtualized content in XAML controls... 0 0 0
Timestamp to String Anthony Trudeau, January 5, 2013 .NET SQL Server The SQL Server TIMESTAMP data type is represented as a byte array in the .NET Framework (byte[] in C#). You may have the need for any number of reasons to provide a representation of the timestamp that ... Timestamp to String 0 0 3 .NET SQL Server
MVVM Light V4.1.26 change log Laurent Bugnion, January 5, 2013 .NET .NET 3.5 .NET 4 .NET 4.5 MVVM Work Windows Phone 8 Windows 8 Windows Phone 7 "Mango" Windows Phone 7 wp7dev WPF Technical stuff Silverlight 5 Silverlight 4 Silverlight Phone I just published the change log for MVVM Light V4.1.26, which is available on Nuget only at this time. The full version is available here, while the “libraries only” version is available here. I am working ... MVVM Light V4.1.26 change log 0 0 3 .NET .NET 3.5 .NET 4 .NET 4.5 MVVM Work Windows Phone 8 Windows 8 Windows Phone 7 "Mango" Windows Phone 7 wp7dev WPF Technical stuff Silverlight 5 Silverlight 4 Silverlight Phone
Fast deletion of folders Marko Apfel, January 5, 2013 Tools Problem If you try to delete large folders with explorer it could run for several minutes. Also when you try to suppress the moving to recycle bin via SHIFT + DEL. Solution From all variants to do this, ... Fast deletion of folders 0 0 0 Tools
How to preserve state across pages in a Windows 8 app Bill Osuch, January 4, 2013 C# Visual Studio 2012 Windows 8 Windows Store eBay When designing a Windows 8 app, you need a way to preserve the state of various items as you navigate from page to page. Windows allows this using the pageState dictionary - a dictionary that can contain ... How to preserve state across pages in a Windows 8 app 0 0 1 C# Visual Studio 2012 Windows 8 Windows Store eBay
Extending WatiN 3: Detecting if a PDF Has Opened In a New Window Steve Wilkes, January 4, 2013 ASP.NET ASP.NET MVC C# Programming Practices UI Testing Patterns WatiN lets you attach to browser windows so you can verify their contents and close them as part of your tests, but the standard API doesn't detect windows with PDF documents in them. Adapted from this ... Extending WatiN 3: Detecting if a PDF Has Opened In a New Window 0 0 1 ASP.NET ASP.NET MVC C# Programming Practices UI Testing Patterns
Managing App-V 5 Virtual Applications with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 KeithMayer, January 4, 2013 In today's TechNet Radio show, I'm back again for another episode in our System Center 2012 ConfigMgr SP1 series with Wally Mead, Senior Program Manager from the System Center Client Management team and ... Managing App-V 5 Virtual Applications with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 0 0 0
APress Deal of the Day 4/Jan/2013 - Metro Revealed: Building Windows 8 apps with XAML and C# TATWORTH, January 4, 2013 Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Metro Revealed: Building Windows 8 apps with XAML and C#"The key features of developing for Microsoft’s eagerly anticipated ... APress Deal of the Day 4/Jan/2013 - Metro Revealed: Building Windows 8 apps with XAML and C# 0 0 0
5 Years of SharePoint Saturday MOSSLover, January 4, 2013 Five years ago I drove down in an old Cadillac to Virginia Beach, VA from Raleigh, NC with Michael Lotter, a coworker named Nas, and Josh Carlisle. Now hundreds of events have occurred in places like Perth, ... 5 Years of SharePoint Saturday 0 0 0
So much in motion! James Michael Hare, January 3, 2013 My Blog Thanks for all your patience during my move to a new job and a new area. I've been settling into my new position here at Amazon in Seattle and am loving every minute of it so far! Unfortunately, there's ... So much in motion! 0 0 1 My Blog
Chapter Review: The Utility Database (by Chris Shaw) and how it applies in Cloud Computing Herve Roggero, January 3, 2013 Sometimes you end up reading a great chapter and feel like writing a review about it… well here it is! Chris Shaw (@SQLShaw, http://chrisshaw.wordpress.com ) wrote a chapter in the PRO SQL Server 2012 ... Chapter Review: The Utility Database (by Chris Shaw) and how it applies in Cloud Computing 0 0 0
What is Ubuntu for Android? Manish Agrawal, January 3, 2013 Mobile What is Ubuntu for Android? 0 0 0 Mobile
Excel ODBC on OSX, Connect to SQL Server Richard Jones, January 3, 2013 Oh goodness. What a shocker. How hard can it be, to simply make Microsoft Office Mac (Excel) connect to Microsoft SQL Server. I've spent the last 2 hours being told to go spend $xx to go buy ODBC drivers ... Excel ODBC on OSX, Connect to SQL Server 0 0 0
Presenting VS2012 at VBUG Bristol on 16 Jan 2013 Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 3, 2013 ALM MVPBuzz Tfs2012 Let’s start with a few interesting facts about Bristol, Bristol is located just 120 miles west of London. It is the largest city in the south west of England. Bristol is a 45 mile trip across the Bristol ... Presenting VS2012 at VBUG Bristol on 16 Jan 2013 0 0 0 ALM MVPBuzz Tfs2012