If you have been using the SQL Azure Portal for creating SQL Databases and connecting to them from your SQL Server Management Studio, you would have realized the ability to query the Azure Cloud Databases from within the management studio. While this provides great opportunities in terms of relation capabilities and accessibility over the Cloud, there has been a recent upgrade to SQL Azure and in that process there has been a Firewall Support added to the SQL Azure Portal access. Specifically when...
I did a presentation earlier this month on PowerPivot (a.k.a Project Gemini) at the MOSSIG meeting and as promised here is the slide deck. If you've seen other "Gemini" presentations there will be nothing new in this presentation, I've really only posted it here so that those who attended the meeting can refer to it. You can download the "short" (1Mb) version with just the content slides: Or you can get the full (8.3Mb) slide deck including the "fairy tale" images from the link below:...
I have downloaded and installed Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. I noticed a couple of UI (User Interface) improvements over the Visual Studio 2008. Visual Enhancements The user interface of the IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is now clean and sleek. Unnecessary lines and gradients are removed to reduce clutter. Below shows the Start Page after you launch Visual Studio 2010. When you create a New Project, you noticed that the layout for project type selection has also changed. It is now neat and...
I stumbled across a recently released collection of guidance and best practices for SharePoint DBAs and those who love them. From the download page… “ This book is a guide for database administrators who implement or maintain Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. It provides guidelines for improving the performance of Office SharePoint Server 2007 solutions that run on Microsoft SQL Server 2008…” Get it here in either doc or pdf formats...
In this Issue: Damian Schenkelman, Jonathan van de Veen, Stephen Forte, Laurent Duveau(2), Alan Mendelevich, and nmarun. From SilverlightCream.com: Why Silverlight 3 Navigation cannot be fully leveraged when loading modules remotely with Prism 2 Damian Schenkelman goes into the future [November 5 :) ] to discuss why there are issues with Silverlight Navigation in Prism. He references articles that contain workarounds as well. Connecting to the SqlMembership model through Silverlight and WCF Jonathan...
It’s been a busy time around here but I finally found time to update the code base for this tool. Thanks for the great feedback and comments about the tool. Please keep the suggestions coming and I will try to work on as much as I can when I have time. I recently started teaching again and just completed my Microsoft Certified Trainer program as well as attained the Microsoft Certified Professional Developer in Windows .NET 3.5 Applications. But in the not so busy time here is the list of issues...
This Saturday, November 7, the Fairfield / Westchester .NET User Group is hosting the 3rd annual Fairfield / Westchester Code Camp at the Connecticut Information Technology Institute in Stamford, CT. I’ll be speaking on New Debugging Features in Visual Studio 2010. Hope to see you there...
I'm dealing with this custom database where an attribute for an authorization can store many things (amount approved, flags, yes/no, etc.) For the attribute that store the amount approved, I have a job that starts off periodically to put a TermDate on it based on some business rules. I had an expression like this in the where clause: CONVERT(MONEY, @value, 1) > 10000 simply because @value comes in as a VARCHAR field. This fails, which I can understand. it's doing a table scan and failed when converting...
Hi All, Following this evenings webcast the recording of the event is available from the following location: https://www311.livemeeting.com/cc/mvp/view?id=Z9M8RH We were interested on feedback of what we would like to see at a future SBUG session, the suggestions were as follows: Getting more value from Sharepoint in a BPM solution Integrating BPM and Biztalk An industry sector case study More about the persona based approach Claims and case management Nationwide case study? Hands on where we can...
Some people have had trouble with the link in the e-mail I sent out for the PDC Underground Party at the Conga Room at LA Live. If you had trouble, please go to the main website at: http://www.undergroundatpdc.com and click on the big registration at the bottom of the page. The direct link in the email does not seem to work correctly...
So, I was trying to explain to a new team about what an iteration is all about and came up with the following. Basically, this is the template that we use for our iterations. They weren't understanding the spoken and written language well, so I decided to try a different route for them: foreach(day in Iteration) { while(hoursWorked < day.WorkHours) { if (resolveImmediatelyDefectsExist || day.IsDefectDay || !uncompletedStoriesExist) { while (defectsExist) { defect = FindTopUnclaimedDefectInDefectView();...
I Just finished reading Learning jQuery 1.3 by Jonathan Chaffer and Karl Swedberg. This book provides a really indepth overview of jQuery along with many real world code samples. Its very well written and talks about all necessary topics from getting you started to Selectors, Events, Effects, DOM Manipulation, AJAX, Table Manipulation, Forms with Function, Shufflers and Rotators, Using Plugins etc. It also talks about advanced topics like extending jQuery and writing your own plugins and contributing...
In this Issue: Mark Miller, SmartyP(2), Goncalo Chaves(2), and David Anson. Shoutouts: Walt Ritscher announced October 2009 version of Composite WPF(Prism) released and has some highlights from the release Damian Schenkelman posted a similar announcement: Prism 2.1 (Composite Application Guidance for WPF & Silverlight 3) just released (updated version for Silverlight 3) From SilverlightCream.com: MVVM with Prism 101 – Part 5b: ServiceLocator vs Dependency Injection Mark Miller continues with...
Beware of a warning that may occur during a Team Build that indicates that a dependent project is missing in a solution. Note that the warning will not appear in the ErrorsAndWarnings.txt because that only reports the errors and warnings from compilation itself and not those specific to MSBuild. The warning found in BuildLog.txt is: SomeSolution.sln : Solution file warning MSB4051: Project {A88..DB} is referencing a project with GUID {756..6AA}, but a project with this GUID was not found in the .SLN...
First of all, you should go to this site to read about the ten reasons you should learn and use web standards. Next, you should travel to DNNCreative website to read an article by Stuart Colville entitled Become a better Standardista. Finally, you should travel to the Wrox site to read the Wrox Blox that Cuong Dang wrote on DotNetNuke and Web Standards. Many companies need to sell to upper management why they should have a DotNetNuke site and web standards often comes up in this conversation. Cuong...
Here is a quick tip: If you want to use Snoop on a WPF application running with elevated permissions, you need to run Snoop with elevated permissions too, or else your application will not appear in the application’s list displayed by Snoop. Thankfully, it is really easy to run Snoop in elevated mode in Windows 7: Press Ctrl-Shift on your keyboard. Click on the Snoop icon in the Taskbar or in the Start menu. Props for this quick tip go to my colleague Frank Preuss at IdentityMine :) Note: If you...
I am practicing Test Driven Development (TDD) now for some two years or so, and soon this technique of writing software felt so natural, that I hardly could imagine doing it another way or even imagine a reason why I should do so. But on the other hand, I know that not questioning something anymore and not being self-critical from time to time is a certain recipe for running into a disaster sooner or later. So I asked myself: What makes TDD such a natural way of writing software? and What are your...
Sometimes, in BizTalk development, a developer needs to develop an out of the box solution for message tracking, etc. Even though the BizTalk Server itself provides an excellent tool such as BAM for Business Analyst (precise to say) and HAT for developer. We encountered the same kind of problem where client wanted us to develop such kind of custom solution to display the message body and message flow. I will be discussing about the details as how to use BAM APIs and message tracking databases used...
You must need to deploy the standard EDI schema against which you need to receive your EDI document. Most of the time in the initial stage of the EDI developments, developer assume that just by adding the edireceive pipeline and configuring the party is suffiecient but this is not the case. I will be detailing about this scenario. If the schema is not deployed you will receive below error messages. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- An output...
I just got an email telling me about this press announcement in relation to the OLAP report becoming the BI Verdict (www.bi-verdict.com). I wonder if this is reflection of the fact that "OLAP" is a technology and "BI" is about more than a single technology…...
In this Issue: Bob Thomson/Storm Ideas, Danijel Stulic , René Schulte, Jesse Liberty, Windows Client.NET, Sergey Barskity, Jeff Prosise, Vikram Pendse, Frank La Vigne, and Tim Greenfield. Shoutout: Damian Schenkelman posted that Prism 2.1 (Composite Application Guidance for WPF & Silverlight 3) just released (updated version for Silverlight 3) When you think User Group you think of a bunch of geeks sitting around, but holy crap... check out this stellar crew: Launch of the Dutch Silverlight and...
Virtual ALT.NET (VAN) is the online gathering place of the ALT.NET community. Through conversations, presentations, pair programming and dojos, we strive to improve, explore, and challenge the way we create software. Using net conferencing technology such as Skype and LiveMeeting, we hold regular meetings, open to anyone, usually taking the form of a presentation or an Open Space Technology-style conversation. Please see the Calendar to find a VAN group that meets at a time convenient to you, and...
Billy McCafferty will join us once again on the heels of releasing Service Pack 1 for S#arp Architecture version 1. He will spend some time reviewing feature improvements, changes and add more context tot he framework where time was not permitted in the first meeting. If you have any specific questions you would like addressed during the evening please let the thread begin... Time and location of the meetings Times below are Central Daylight Time Start Time: Nov 4, Each week 8:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours...
Forgive this interruption of the normal tech content presented here. But there’s a dangerous man in my neighborhood, posing as a package delivery man, ringing doorbells, then pushing his way in, tying up whoever is there, and stealing their property as they watch. One incident involved a 3-year old being present. If you live in the West Village, please be vigilant. The following is from Marilyn Dorato, president of the local block association: ________________________________________ From: Marilyn...
I will be speaking at SoCal Dot Net on Wednesday night. My topic is VS 2010 and MSDeploy, the new ASP .NET deployment tool. To RSVP go to http://www.socaldotnet.org...
Don't miss The Underground @ PDC 2009! Sponsored by Microsoft, INETA, and local partners and community, The Underground is your chance to hear from Microsoft and tech community leaders announcing Microsoft's Technology roadmap and newly released developer strategies. At The Underground, network with hundreds of other developers, architects and designers. Add savory cuisine, hosted Mojito bar, hand rolled cigars & more, at the world famous Conga Room in downtown L.A., and you have an experience...
In starting this new contest I’m trying to decide how to best invest my fitness dollars. On one level this seems so simple – I know the formula very well, just eat less and exercise more! I’ve lost seventy pounds by doing this so I know it works. It is simple. Almost too simple. Problem is that I’ve hit a plateau and actually gained back some weight. It ends here. It ends now. I will focus. So it may very well be that I don’t have to spend any money above and beyond the gym membership, healthy food...
To create a index on a single column, do this: CREATE INDEX IDX_FERC ON FERC(FercName) In some cases, you may have a need to combine columns to hasten known unique combinations. This is knonw as a composite key. An example: CREATE INDEX IDX_OperatingCompanyFERC ON FERC(OpCompanyID,FercName)...
Presenters: Simon Skaria and Umesh Unnikrishnan This was my second session during the week. It was one in which my hopes were that they would talk about the deployment differences that SharePoint 2010 would have over 2007. I was not disappointed. So to sum it up a bit: 2010 has a much more flexible model compared to 2007. Improved security model Claims Based Authorization/SAML Better administration with Central Administration and also PowerShell Service Isolation Now the Services that you deployed...
Its "Dyslexia Awareness Week" here in the UK, and as a person that benefits from being a Dyslexic developer, I thought I should highlight the specific strengths to programmers of being dyslexic... All of the benefits are due to a neurological difference that presents as a larger right-hemisphere in the brain and many more neural connections are formed than is normally found. While this can make it difficult for others to follow the actual thought process the benefits outweigh the cost of this and...
In BizTalk EDI application I needed to have custom file name of the destination file and I end up writing a custom component. I could have used orchestration to modify the "ReceivedFileName" but somehow it was not working. May be becasue of EDI Encode component but that should not be the case. Any way.. the other thing was I also needed to add the seuence of the file to the FileName. I found that BizTalk databases does not store the sequence of the received file so either I needed to add some tracking...
Here’s your chance to let Microsoft know what’s important to you when it comes to Silverlight tweets and blog posts. What information are you interested in? What’s more important, information on getting started or what was just released? Deep dive information or what’s coming? Jump on this simple survey and let your voice be heard. Have a day. :-|...
Hello again! This is my first time to blog since July and that is a little bit long I know. So what has been going on? Well quite a bit actually. First, Addison and Brandon are getting quite a bit older and are more active. I truly enjoy spending time with them in the evenings and that takes a lot of time out of blogging. Second, my role as youth leader at my church has been taking a larger priority in my life than when we first started our youth ministry. We are now up to 40 students at our Saturday...
If you need to start on BizTalk EDI Development, you can refer below articles. If you face any issue please do write to me. BizTalk EDI Development Part 1: http://geekswithblogs.net/VishnuTiwariBlog/archive/2009/10/21/develop-your-first-biztalk-edi-project---part-1.aspx BizTalk EDI Development Part 2: http://geekswithblogs.net/VishnuTiwariBlog/archive/2009/10/21/develop-your-first-biztalk-edi-project---part-2.aspx BizTalk EDI Development Part 3: http://geekswithblogs.net/VishnuTiwariBlog/archive/2009/10/22/develop-your-first-biztalk-edi-project---part-3.aspx...
Seriously why do new bloggers insist on placing a test post with the word “test” as the entire body? This is just a weird concept to me. Please stop. No one wants to see you introduced to a community as “test”. Rather we would like to see you say, “Hi, this is my first post. My name is [Insert Name] and I am [Insert Interests and Bio]”. This is a blog community so why not try out a blog post for a test? Anyway, I am very sorry for the number of test posts we have been receiving lately. I will add...
DataGridView CSV Editor · Load CSV File into Dataset -> DataGridView · Show cells with Validation Errors with backcolor & tooltip · Right-Click cell to correct cell via tooltip · Restrict KeyPress Keys · Show cell as “edited” via cell backcolor Public Function GetCSVDataTable(ByVal filePath As String) As DataTable ' The dataset to return Dim dt As DataTable = Nothing Try '-------------------------------------------------------------------- ' Create "Excel Like" Column Headers '--------------------------------------------------------------------...
A few months ago I received an email from Rob Houweling explaining his ideas for a new Dutch usergroup, focused on Silverlight, Expression Design and Expression Blend. I’ve had been playing with the idea of a Silverlight usergroup myself at the time, so I didn’t have to think very long about joining. After meeting and numerous emails between six silverlight enthusiasts(Rob Houweling, Mark Monster, Koen Zwikstra, Antoni Dol, Eric van den Hoek and me, Timmy Kokke) the plans are worked out and it’s...
I am currently studying some of the listed articles which may be of useful for you guys Study material on Object Persistence (This is in Java but subject is general) New things in .Net 4 Beta 2 Javascript Class browser Making jQuery calls to WCF/ASMX with a ServiceProxy Client Disable button during postback Hope they will be of great use. Thanks, Thanigainathan.S...
Recently I encountered a problem wherein I need to concatenate and return the row values in single field. I was getting the results as below in rows and I needed to return the concatenated values of these row values. Results Load Number Temperature Code Purchase Order Number 141421 F PO1 141421 D PO2 141421 S PO3 In fact I was not having any column like LoadNumber which could have worked as ID and the implementation should have been a bit easy. I am mentioning two different solutions below. On works...
I am branching out. nPlus1.org is having an ArcSummit event and needed someone to speak on Dependency Injection. Sign me up. If you are interested in this or the other topics to be presented please join us. There is more information about the event and a registration link below. https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=142763 About nPlus1.org nPlus1.org is a site dedicated to helping Architects, aspiring Architects and Lead Developers learn, connect and contribute. On this site you’ll have...
One of the things I have always hated was “Windows Search”. Why the heck would I need “instant results” – instant as in donating countless CPU cycles and disk churns to background indexing operations running all day long on my box? YUK! I am never actually “looking” for something – I know where everything is. It’s right where I put it. Who are these people “looking” for things on their computers all the time? Typical Scenario My typical use case came up again this morning: I downloaded a source distribution...
I love Test Driven Development. I use this development approach wherever I can. It makes my code a lot better and gives me the confidence that I indeed have crafted a good and reliable piece of code. However, some things are quite hard to test-drive, simply because they have so many dependencies that you would need to make extensive use of a mocking framework (and probably inspecting some things via Reflector...). In such a case, you usually decide to not have unit tests, because the time and amount...
There are a lot of things to like about the new version Virtual PC. Compared to its predecessor, it has added support for USB devices; allows individual applications to be run from a virtual machine yet project on the host desktop; has terrific shell integration; and much better awareness of the host’s power management, allowing users to hibernate their physical PC, even while a virtual image is activated. When you add to that the new ability of Windows 7 to mount VHD files as physical drives, and...
I’ll be giving a presentation on C# 4.0 New Language Features this Tuesday at the CMAP Main Meeting. Also I’ll be presenting MVC in the Real World this Saturday at CMAP Code Camp. Hope to see you there...
Brisbane ALT.NET beers is happening Thursday 5th November from 6pm. The venue will be the riverside pig 'n' whistle, same as last time. If you have not been before, ALT.NET beers is an informal pub-based meeting of ALT.Neters. Beer and wedges are likely. Please RSVP at the new EventBrite page: http://altdotnetbrisbane.eventbrite.com...
I recently upgraded to MonoDevelop 2.2 Beta 2 (for the debugging capability, more on that later) on my Mac. When I opened a Moonlight solution and tried to run it, I got the following error: Could not find respack The project had lost its references to System.Windows and System.Windows.Browser. The cause turned out to be that when you upgrade MonoDevelop, it doesn't always update where it's pointing. The solution was to go to: /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions and delete all directories...
I recently did the upgrade to Snow Leopard on my MBP. To my dismay, Quicksilver no longer worked. It terminated immediately after launch. I found the the Beta 56a7 on here. I also had to remove Plugins.plist and the Plugins folder from ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver. I am ecstatic to report that Quicksilver is up and running again, and my Mac is happy...
This is part 2 of my series on the jQuery UI Dialog. Part 1 – The Default Dialog covered the most basic usage of the dialog widget. In this second part I will demonstrate a simple modal dialog. A modal dialog is a dialog that takes focus, and disables the rest of the application until it is closed. They are used to force the user to acknowledge something, or to gather some input. It is worth pointing out that modal dialogs can be annoying for users so you should consider carefully if it is absolutely...
CRineta.org, Iowa .NET and CVIneta.org are hosting the fourth code camp to Iowa on November 7, 2009 at DMACC in West Des Moines. These are always great events, and you can't beat the price: FREE! This event gets bigger and better every time they do it, and this time is no exception. SEVEN concurrent tracks, with FIVE time slots at 75 minutes each. These aren't just Microsoft Lovefests either, you'll also find talks on jQuery, Ruby, WebOS, Lisp, Software Craftsmanship, Load Testing, Mobile Device...
Often in large solutions i had the problem that a couple of little chances needs building some projects. Unfortunately Visual Studio tends to build more projects than needed. Formerly i used the configuration manager to deactivate unused projects. This is a overhead which sucks. Now i found, that Visual Studio allows to build all projects in a solution folder. A very cool feature. Normally all my projects are grouped in folder structures which reflects the functionality. And in almost all cases this...
Geekswithblogs Gets a Facelift
Celebrating the five year anniversary of the first post on Geekswithblogs, the GWB team has launched a new look and functionality for the community designed to help the community continue to grow and increase interaction amongst bloggers.
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GWB Goes to PDC ’08 – Let Us “Tag Your Top”
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GWB Podcasting from PDC ‘08
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GWB and PDC ’08 – We’ll Make You Famous!
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