- SSAS: Connecting via HTTP on Windows VistaMicrosoft has a couple of articles on how to set up HTTP connectivity for SSAS, one for Win XP http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/httpssas.mspx and another for Win2003 server htt…
- WSUS fubar - Microsoft Desktop SearchThank you Microsoft, for once again bypassing my Windows update policies. I can now go explain to my managers why 500 workstations and 12 servers have ended up with Microsoft Desktop Search, withou…
- Sony displays the world's first OLED panel, the XEL-1Demo unit on display this week at CEATEC Japan Commercial unit to be sold in December
- Why I Hate Multi Media Pt 1So, Microsoft has launched Silverlight. I'm a development manager and my team produces web sites, so it’s time to check it out. This isn't a particularly unusual activity for me. Microsoft brings o…
- The history of C#I just came across a very interesting post from James Kovacs that describes how C# and .NET evolved. I had blogged about this almost a year ago, but James' post adds some additional background.
- No Left Navigation when new web part pages are created in sharepointNo Left Navigation when new web part pages are created in sharepoint
- Certification JunkiesA lot of you probably already know my feelings on certifications, particularly the Microsoft certifications. Even though I am an MCPD, I took what appears to be the "non traditional" approach and a…
- Avoid common globalization errors in .NETLast week I've been looking for a better RSS Reader (err... Aggregator). You see after certain number of feeds MS Outlook no longer works for me and I needed a better alternative. In my search I ca…
- Have you offset your carbon usage today?Have you offset your carbon usage today?
- Kanban boards in software developmentKanban (pronounced kahn-bahn) is a Just-In-Time (JIT) manufacturing technique that minimizes inventory and increases throughput. This is done by signaling. A production station has a bin or loading…
- WPF: Simulating data in design mode in Microsoft Expression Blend\[UPDATE: The link to the VS2008 project was broken. Sorry for that\]
- Exchange Volume Letters batch script (WinXP)Suppose that you have the need to switch drive letters of two of yours volumes. Lets say you have one partition with assigned drive letter D and other drive with assigned drive letter E. To change …
- Annoyance in Quality Center ReportingNot only am I an Automation Engineer, I'm also one of the Quality Center admins at my current job.
- Asp.net ListView - Too much CSS FriendlyMy First experiment with Asp.net ListView control was awesome. I downloaded few templates from CSS Table Gallery and able to apply it only in few minutes. Checkout the result of Northwind Customer …
- How Firefox Handles Empty SRC tagsI ran into a crazy issue while working on my ASP.Net 2.0 application in Firefox this week and thought I'd share...
- Apple Force Installs iTunesSo imagine Microsoft releases a new patch for Windows Media Player. You install it and now you have the Zune software. How many people do you think would be pissed about that?
- Are you googling in your class?Google has several products available to educators that you might find of interest to use yourself or with your students.
- T-SQL – 1 million records in 1 secondI thought this is worth noting. This is the way to generate 1 million records within 1 second in SQL Server 2005. I'll have the code pasted here so that I can have a reference the next time I need …
- Free on-line alternative to MS Office - Zoho, now in on-line and off-line modesTry this for size? and they are also extending the fuctionality of this to include off-line use as well based on the Google Gears project - more info on this development on their blog at http://blo…
- Difference between "throw" and "throw ex" in .NETException handling seems to be a common problem for .NET developers, particularly younger developers. We pretty much all know that you should wrap operations that have the potential for failing in …
