Old SQL, Top and a Variable Bunch, January 1, 0001 I came across this the other day. Using SQL 2000 I could not get a Top statement to work with a variable. I had forgotten that only with SQL 2005 and higher could you do this trick. I found a good way ... Old SQL, Top and a Variable 0 0 0
Team Foundation Server 2010 Real-Time Burndown Charts Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 The reality is that project managers need work status in real-time. The TFS Excel reports and web parts are great, but because they are sourced from the TFS SSAS cube the information can be up to 2 hours ... Team Foundation Server 2010 Real-Time Burndown Charts 0 0 1
TFS 2010 Web Part for Data Warehouse Views Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 Team Foundation Server 2010 includes support for Data Warehouse and Analysis Cube Views. The company, Amrein Engineering, sells a web part that uses SQL statements to source data. You can implement this ... TFS 2010 Web Part for Data Warehouse Views 0 0 0
Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) fails to connect when executing test... Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 If you are logged on to the local machine (not the domain) you will be prompted to enter network credentials when you open MTM to connect to TFS. However, if you receive a connection error when you attempt ... Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) fails to connect when executing test... 0 0 0
TFS 2010 - SPS 2010 MOSS Web Part Connection Refresh Failure Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 ISSUE "Refresh Error" dialog displays on Team Project portal MOSS web parts. There are several variations of refresh errors. Here is one instance: "An error ocurred while accessing application id tfs from ... TFS 2010 - SPS 2010 MOSS Web Part Connection Refresh Failure 0 0 0
Integrating Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 and SharePoint (SP)... Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 INTRODUCTION The purpose of this post is to provide clear and concise steps for a very specific scenario: Integrating TFS 2010 with SP Server (SPS i.e. formerly MOSS) 2010 TFS and SPS are on different ... Integrating Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 and SharePoint (SP)... 0 0 0
Visual Studio 2010 – Project Reference Oddness and Revelati... Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 This post is an op-ed on how VS handles references. Over the past few years not only have I experienced frustration on this, but I find that many others have similar views. Just recently I took a significant ... Visual Studio 2010 – Project Reference Oddness and Revelati... 0 0 0
TFS 2010 SDK Assembly Reference Locations for Team Build Process ... Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 I pulled these from Ewald Hoffman's Customize Team Build 2010 - Part 4 post and posted here for easy reference. Note: you will also have to add a project reference for the code files project in your solution. ... TFS 2010 SDK Assembly Reference Locations for Team Build Process ... 0 0 0
TFS Branch/Merge and Workspaces Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 I recently responded to concerns about TFS branching where "...when I delete files from my local workspace..." was part of the situation. More than once since 2005 I've had developers come to me, red faced ... TFS Branch/Merge and Workspaces 0 0 0
Turn off Team Build 2010 Scrapping of Project Output to Binaries ... Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 The objective of this poat is to simply show how to turn off (disable) TFS Team Build 2010's use of the MSBuild OutDir property to "scrap" project output from the location specified in your project .csproj ... Turn off Team Build 2010 Scrapping of Project Output to Binaries ... 0 0 0
Passing in report parameters to TFS 2010 OLAP Web Parts on the Te... Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 There is some helpful information from Ewald Hofman on passing in parameters to the TFS SQL Server Analysis Services OLAP reports. But, the 2010 schema has changed. You can use the SQL Server Mgmgt Studio ... Passing in report parameters to TFS 2010 OLAP Web Parts on the Te... 0 0 2
Using a TFS 2010 custom bug work item definition with the MTLM Te... Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 We don’t use the term “Bug,” rather we use “Software Action Request” or “SAR.” I renamed the Bug WI definition from Bug to SAR. I added a few custom fields to our SAR WI definition, but all the Microsoft ... Using a TFS 2010 custom bug work item definition with the MTLM Te... 0 0 0
Updating an incorrect reason code after a state transition Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 When using TFS work items you may find that when you transition from one state to another that you selected the wrong reason code, or you found out shortly afterwards that the reason code you selected ... Updating an incorrect reason code after a state transition 0 0 0
Azure Presentation at VS Live! Steve Michelotti, January 1, 0001 Tomorrow I will be presenting “Building Scalable Apps in Windows Azure” at VS Live in New York City. I will be co-presenting with my colleague Vishwas Lele of Azure fame. Should be a great event ... Azure Presentation at VS Live! 0 0 0
How to do debugging with visual studio 2008/2010 ? Chandradev, January 1, 0001 HiIf you have good debugging skill then you can save lots of time. In visual studio lots of options are available for debugging. Here are some good URL for debugging. It will be really useful in our daily ... How to do debugging with visual studio 2008/2010 ? 0 0 0
Links about SQL PIVOT Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 One of my colleagues asked how to create SQL query to show results as columns of a row, that actually stored in multiple rows in the table. Other co-worker suggested to use cursor to manually generate ... Links about SQL PIVOT 0 0 0
Extension method for outputting formatted JSON in LINQPad Elton Stoneman, January 1, 0001 Very simple, but a handy way of viewing nicely-formatted JSON in LINQPad: I use Json.NET as it does indented formatting, and represents JSON dates properly. To add as an extension, download Json.NET, add ... Extension method for outputting formatted JSON in LINQPad 0 0 8
Work Life Balance rickpetersen, January 1, 0001 Where’s Daddy? My wife, one year old daughter and I play a game that most other parents have played at some point; my wife will hold her and ask her "Where’s daddy?” and the response is invariably a wide-eyed ... Work Life Balance 0 0 0
Pre-Processing Directives for Multi-Platform Support Joe Mayo, January 1, 0001 Over the last several months, I’ve been modifying LINQ to Twitter to support multiple platforms. Originally, I had targeted full profile .NET, ASP.NET Web Forms, and ASP.NET MVC apps. An easy stop along ... Pre-Processing Directives for Multi-Platform Support 0 0 3
Announcing the Virtual Blogger Hub! Staff of Geeks, January 1, 0001 TechEd 2012 Orlando Blogger Hub We are proud to announce today that Geekswithblogs.net will be at Microsoft TechEd 2012 in Orlando, hosting the Blogger Hub for the event. This area in the Expo Hall will ... Announcing the Virtual Blogger Hub! 0 0 0
Scott Guthrie, Scott Hanselman, and Brady Gaster in Phoenix 6/19/... Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 AZGroups 6/19/2012 Scott Guthrie, Scott Hanselman, and Brady Gaster! June is hot in Phoenix... and June 19th is just a week before what was the hottest we've ever had. AZGroups is going to give 6/26/1990 ... Scott Guthrie, Scott Hanselman, and Brady Gaster in Phoenix 6/19/... 0 0 0
What should we do with our Windows CE/Windows Mobile apps? Webgui, January 1, 0001 I would like to share a post from the Visual WebGui Blog on ASP.NET. The post "The link between Windows CE/Windows Mobile applications, ASP.NET and HTML5" discusses the developer's alternatives when facing ... What should we do with our Windows CE/Windows Mobile apps? 0 0 0
Visual Studio error when adding a BizTalk HL7 (BTAHL7) Project to... Daniel Hester, January 1, 0001 When you try to add a BTAHL7 Common Project, e.g. BTAHL7V2XCommon, to your Visual Studio 2010 solution you may encounter the following error: “Object reference not set to an instance of an object” This ... Visual Studio error when adding a BizTalk HL7 (BTAHL7) Project to... 0 0 0
Portable Library Tools 2 Joe Mayo, January 1, 0001 Funny, after having blogged today about not using Portable Libraries because of lack of features the BCL team released Portable Library Tools 2 Beta. Since IQueryable is supported too I’ll have to take ... Portable Library Tools 2 0 0 0
LINQ to Twitter for Windows 8 Metro Style Apps Joe Mayo, January 1, 0001 In the Developer Preview of Windows 8, Visual Studio 11 conveniently allowed references to .NET 4.0 apps. I had blogged previously on how to use LINQ to Twitter with Windows 8. Subsequently, the Consumer ... LINQ to Twitter for Windows 8 Metro Style Apps 0 0 2
List of resources for database continuous integration David Atkinson, January 1, 0001 Because there is so little information on database continuous integration in the wild, I’ve taken it upon myself to aggregate as much as possible and post the links to this blog. Because it’s my area of ... List of resources for database continuous integration 0 0 0
Is Expression Web Moribund? - A response ihaynes, January 1, 0001 A post on the Expression Forum asked the question, 'Is Expression Web moribund?'. It was prompted by this article written by add-in developer Dennis DeRobertis. It gave rise to some interesting replies. ... Is Expression Web Moribund? - A response 0 0 0
MSDN Magazine on your Kindle Liam Westley, January 1, 0001 Here in the UK we recently had a long weekend due to a public holiday. So what better time to sit back in a comfy chair with the laptop and read the latest MSDN Magazine online? Unless you have children, ... MSDN Magazine on your Kindle 0 0 3
BizTalk SSO Storage Application for BizTalk Server 2010 Daniel Hester, January 1, 0001 Jon Flanders did some great work with SSO for storing BizTalk configuration data (used by .NET code) within the Enterprise SSO Database and the BizTalk team created a sample application for using SSO as ... BizTalk SSO Storage Application for BizTalk Server 2010 0 0 0
Windows Azure ServiceBus EAI & EDI Labs SDK - April 2012 CTP Daniel Hester, January 1, 0001 Microsoft have released a 2nd CTP of the Windows Azure ServiceBus EAI & EDI Labs SDK – this is the new Integration Services platform that will likely eclipse BizTalk Server at some point in the next ... Windows Azure ServiceBus EAI & EDI Labs SDK - April 2012 CTP 0 0 0
APress Deal of the Day - 7/May/2012 - Applied ASP.NET 4 in Contex... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Today's $10 Deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Applied ASP.NET 4 in Context"Applied ASP.NET 4 in Context answers the commonly asked question, "Yes, but how does it work ... APress Deal of the Day - 7/May/2012 - Applied ASP.NET 4 in Contex... 0 0 0
Visual Studio 2010: Version and update information tool terje, January 1, 0001 Download from VS Gallery In my work I meet many developers, tester and project managers, all using Visual Studio. When I ask them if they have updated it to the latest version, there are many who simply ... Visual Studio 2010: Version and update information tool 0 0 19
Membership Provider Parte 2. Creación de un Modelo de Base... Jason Ulloa, January 1, 0001 En mi post anterior se hablaba sobre la importancia del Membership Provider de asp.net y algunas de sus funciones. Sin embargo, para los que ha usado el proveedor se habrán dado cuenta de que contiene ... Membership Provider Parte 2. Creación de un Modelo de Base... 0 0 1
Catch Exceptions in Concurrent Flows Using Causalities Ralf Westphal, January 1, 0001 The previous article showed you how to easily parallelize flow operation execution with NPantaRhei (download the sources from github). Once operations run concurrently, though, you´ve to pay your dues. ... Catch Exceptions in Concurrent Flows Using Causalities 0 0 0
BizTalk Anti-Pattern: Chuck it in the config file because its an ... Michael Stephenson, January 1, 0001 Name:Don't automatically shove your config in BTSNTSVC.exe.config because its easy? Description:I wrote a blog post a few years ago around the options for where you could put configuration settings in ... BizTalk Anti-Pattern: Chuck it in the config file because its an ... 0 0 3
Web Fashion: Tight and Tidy is Out of Style! jkauffman, January 1, 0001 Most New Landing Pages Look the Same I’ve been hitting the web more than usual the past few months as part of R&D for various needs. I’ve come to realize that the winds of web fashion have taken a ... Web Fashion: Tight and Tidy is Out of Style! 0 0 3
Inside Red Gate - Ricky Leeks simonc, January 1, 0001 So, one of our profilers has a problem. Red Gate produces two .NET profilers - ANTS Performance Profiler (APP) and ANTS Memory Profiler (AMP). Both products help .NET developers solve problems they are ... Inside Red Gate - Ricky Leeks 0 0 0
Tiny UML Sequence Diagram Markup Language for Agile Developer Doc... George Mamaladze, January 1, 0001 I hate overdocumented software components and frameworks. There are top 3 reasons for that: Only the code tells the truth(programmer.97things.o... The ... Tiny UML Sequence Diagram Markup Language for Agile Developer Doc... 0 0 0
filterContext.RouteData.Values null ? 80n, January 1, 0001 I’m using ASP.NET MVC 3. I was used to rely on filterContext.RouteData.Values to get parameters from the url var idEdited = filterContext.RouteData.Val... This works fine as long as the url does ... filterContext.RouteData.Values null ? 0 0 1
Searching for multiple files in Windows 7 Search Renso, January 1, 0001 Goal:Searching for more than one file in the windows search feature in windows explorer. For example I want to search for different types of images, tif, gif, jpg, etc or file names that contain different ... Searching for multiple files in Windows 7 Search 0 0 1
Subterranean IL: The ThreadLocal type simonc, January 1, 0001 I came across ThreadLocal<T> while I was researching ConcurrentBag. To look at it, it doesn't really make much sense. What's all those extra Cn classes doing in there? Why is there a GenericHolder<T,U,V,W> ... Subterranean IL: The ThreadLocal type 0 0 0
Earn $50 with Microsoft's Cloud Cash Contest ScottKlein, January 1, 0001 Microsoft has a sweepstakes where they are giving away a $50 gift certificate each week through June 14. More info here: http://www.brianhprince.com... ... Earn $50 with Microsoft's Cloud Cash Contest 0 0 1
Easily Parallelize Operations in Flows Using the Flow Execution E... Ralf Westphal, January 1, 0001 My previous article introduced the Flow Execution Engine NPantaRhei (download here from github). It showed how to define a data flow and register its operations. By default such flows are executed synchronously ... Easily Parallelize Operations in Flows Using the Flow Execution E... 0 0 0
C# v J*** - a practical test TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 At http://blog.xamarin.com/201... there is an interesting article on making C# available to Android developers and in the the midst of this article was interesting comparison on ... C# v J*** - a practical test 0 0 0
Removing the checkbox in front of list items in SP2010 KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 Here’s a quick one about modifying list views to remove the checkbox that appears next to list items. It’s really simple but it is a new element of SharePoint 2010 list views and one where it is not immediately ... Removing the checkbox in front of list items in SP2010 0 0 0
Connecting to TFS2010 with Visual Studio 2008 Stacy Vicknair, January 1, 0001 Since I recently went through this I figured it would be worthwhile to compile the downloads, regedits and other steps into one location. Downloads for Visual Studio 2008 You’ll need to download and install ... Connecting to TFS2010 with Visual Studio 2008 0 0 0
Relative and absolute URLs in CEWP PointsToShare, January 1, 0001 Relative and absolute URLs in CEWP Microsoft’s own explanation of the CEWP in:http://office.microsoft.... includes the following caveat: ... Relative and absolute URLs in CEWP 0 0 0
jQuery - Does a DOM element exist or not Renso, January 1, 0001 Goal:How to find out if a DOM element exists using jQuery:Solution:There are many ways to skim a cat, but I find the easiest way is to do:$("#theItem")[0]So you can do an IF-THEN-ELSE:if(!$("#theIte... ... jQuery - Does a DOM element exist or not 0 0 2
MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT ONLINE CODE ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK (MSOCAF) – A ... KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT ONLINE CODE ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK (MSOCAF) is a must have for all SharePoint Vendors and Customers. Microsoft SharePoint Online introduced a new application which will streamline the ... MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT ONLINE CODE ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK (MSOCAF) – A ... 0 0 0
How to submit data from an InfoPath 2010 form to SharePoint 2010 ... KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 This post covers a step by step guide to add/update data from InfoPath to SharePoint.The prerequisites for this post and the tasks covered are SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft OfficeInfoPath Designer 2010 ... How to submit data from an InfoPath 2010 form to SharePoint 2010 ... 0 0 3