Why I Love Microsoft Development Brian Lanham, January 1, 0001 I've been writing software for a while and recently had an opportunity to broaden my horizons and start developing for iOS. We decided to leverage, as much as possible, our existing skills and use MonoTouch ... Why I Love Microsoft Development 0 0 4
Christmas in the Clouds andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 I have been spending the last 2 weeks immersing myself in a number of Windows Azure and SQL Azure technologies. And in setting up a new business (I’ll speak more about that in the future), I have also ... Christmas in the Clouds 0 0 0
SQL Server Dynamic Where Clause Column Names HighAltitudeCoder, January 1, 0001 Let me start this post by saying if you are searching for the capability to do this, there is a very good chance you have problems with your current database architecture. Having said that, I realize you ... SQL Server Dynamic Where Clause Column Names 0 0 0
BizTalk: History of one integration project Leonid Ganeline, January 1, 0001 [Russian version of the article] "In the beginning God made heaven and earth. Then he started to integrate." At the very start was the requirement: integrate two working systems. [fairy tale of the system ... BizTalk: History of one integration project 0 0 6
SQL Sharding and SQL Azure… Dave Noderer, January 1, 0001 Herve Roggero has just published a paper that outlines patterns for scaling using SQL Azure and the Blue Syntax (he and Scott Klein’s company) sharding api. You can find the paper at: http://www.bluesyntax.net/f... ... SQL Sharding and SQL Azure… 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for December 23, 2010 -- #1014 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this 4-days loss to a sinus infection and all-submittal Issue.... and this only catches me up on submittals through last Sunday: Mark Monster, Sacha Barber, Rénald Nollet, Georgi Atanasov, and András ... Silverlight Cream for December 23, 2010 -- #1014 0 0 0
Multitenant Design for SQL Azure: White Paper Available Herve Roggero, January 1, 0001 Cloud computing is about scaling out all your application tiers, from web application to the database layer. In fact, the whole promise of Azure is to pay for just what you need. You need more IIS servers? ... Multitenant Design for SQL Azure: White Paper Available 0 0 0
Craftsmanship is ALL that Matters Wayne Molina, January 1, 0001 Today, I'm going to talk about a touchy subject: the notion of working in a company that doesn't use the prescribed "best practices" in its software development endeavours. Over the years I have, using ... Craftsmanship is ALL that Matters 0 0 0
Overview of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Advisor Akshay Deep Lamba, January 1, 0001 Problem Like most organizations, we are planning to upgrade our database server from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008. I would like to know is there an easy way to know in advance what kind of issues ... Overview of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Advisor 0 0 1
Loading XML file containing leading zeros with SSIS preserving th... Compudicted, January 1, 0001 Visiting the MSDN SQL Server Integration Services Forum oftentimes I could see that people would pop up asking this question: “why I am not able to load an element from an XML file that contains zeros ... Loading XML file containing leading zeros with SSIS preserving th... 0 0 2
Analysis Services (SSAS) - Unexpected Internal Error when process... James Rogers, January 1, 0001 /* EDIT - This problem has been fixed in the latest SQL Server 2008 R2 Cumulative Update package. It was identified that changing the aggregation design without reprocessing the aggregations prior to a ... Analysis Services (SSAS) - Unexpected Internal Error when process... 0 0 0
APress Deal of the Day 20/Dec/2010 - Beginning SQL Server Modelin... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Todays $10 bargain PDF from Apress is: Beginning SQL Server Modeling: Model-Driven Application Development in SQL Server 2008 Get ready for model-driven application development with SQL Server Modeling! ... APress Deal of the Day 20/Dec/2010 - Beginning SQL Server Modelin... 0 0 0
FREE goodies if you are a UK based software house already live on... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 In the UK we have seen some fantastic take up around the Windows Azure Platform and we have lined up some great stuff in 2011 to help companies fully exploit the Cloud – but we need you to tell us what ... FREE goodies if you are a UK based software house already live on... 0 0 5
Communication Between Your PC and Azure VM via Windows Azure Conn... Shaun, January 1, 0001 With the new release of the Windows Azure platform there are a lot of new features available. In my previous post I introduced a little bit about one of them, the remote desktop access to azure virtual ... Communication Between Your PC and Azure VM via Windows Azure Conn... 0 0 4
December release of Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework is availa... Jialiang, January 1, 0001 The code samples in Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework are updated on 2010-12-13. Download address: http://1code.codeplex.com/r... Updated code sample index categorized ... December release of Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework is availa... 0 0 1
Enabling 32-Bit Applications on IIS7 (also affects 32-bit oledb o... Humprey Cogay, C|EH, January 1, 0001 We just bought a new Web Server, after installing Windows 2008 R2(which is a 64bit OS and IIS7), SQL Server Standard 2008 R2 and IBM Client Access for V5R3 with its Dot Net Data Providers, I tried deploying ... Enabling 32-Bit Applications on IIS7 (also affects 32-bit oledb o... 0 0 1
More SQL Smells Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 Let's continue exploring some of the SQL Smells from Phil's list. He has been putting together. Datatype mis-matches in predicates that rely on implicit conversion.(Plamen Ratchev) This is a great example ... More SQL Smells 0 0 0
Usar un Datatable como fuente de datos para un GridView Jason Ulloa, January 1, 0001 Es común ver en los foros, preguntas sobre como llenar un datatable para luego, ponerlo como fuente de un GridView. En nuestro próximo ejemplo, mostraremos lo sencillo que puede ser y la poca cantidad ... Usar un Datatable como fuente de datos para un GridView 0 0 11
After restoring a SQL Server database from another server - get l... Renso, January 1, 0001 Issue: After you have restored a sql server database from another server, lets say from production to a Q/A environment, you get the "Login Fails" message for your service account. Reason: User logon information ... After restoring a SQL Server database from another server - get l... 0 0 0
Slides and links from ISV Windows Azure briefing on the 13th Dec ... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 A big thank you to everyone who attended yesterdays “informal” briefing on the Windows Azure Platform. There were lots of great discussions during the day and I know we al certainly enjoyed it. This post ... Slides and links from ISV Windows Azure briefing on the 13th Dec ... 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for December 13, 2010 -- #1010 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Rénald Nollet, Benjamin Gavin, Dennis Doomen, Tim Greenfield, Mike Taulty, Jeff Blankenburg, Michael Crump, Laurent Duveau, Dragos Manolescu, KeyboardP, Yochay Kiriaty. Above the Fold: Silverlight: ... Silverlight Cream for December 13, 2010 -- #1010 0 0 0
Force.com presents Database.com SQL Azure/Amazon RDS unfazed Sarang, January 1, 0001 At the DreamForce 2010 event in San Francisco Force.com unveiled their next big thing in the Fat SaaS portfolio "Database.com". I am still wondering how would they would've shelled out for that domain ... Force.com presents Database.com SQL Azure/Amazon RDS unfazed 0 0 1
Restful Services, oData, and Rest Sharp jkrebsbach, January 1, 0001 After a great presentation by Jason Sheehan at MDC about RestSharp, I decided to implement it. RestSharp is a .Net framework for consuming restful data sources via either Json or XML. My first step was ... Restful Services, oData, and Rest Sharp 0 0 2
Retrofit WebForms with ASP.NET MVC - NoVa Code Camp 2010.2 Demo Soe Tun, January 1, 0001 Thank you to everyone who attended my Retrofit WebForms with ASP.NET MVC session at NoVa Code 2010.2. It was a fun event for me and I hope you had a great time and learned something from it. I wish I had ... Retrofit WebForms with ASP.NET MVC - NoVa Code Camp 2010.2 Demo 0 0 1
PowerShell for breakfast, lunch and dinner Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 Actually, for snacks too, and it is nearly everywhere I turn. If I do Microsoft Exchange work, I know I will run into it. Active Directory, SQL Server, TFS, SharePoint, Azure and most recently Lync. All ... PowerShell for breakfast, lunch and dinner 0 0 0
Speed up SQL Server queries with PREFETCH Akshay Deep Lamba, January 1, 0001 Problem The SAN data volume has a throughput capacity of 400MB/sec; however my query is still running slow and it is waiting on I/O (PAGEIOLATCH_SH). Windows Performance Monitor shows data volume speed ... Speed up SQL Server queries with PREFETCH 0 0 1
Network communications mechanisms for SQL Server Akshay Deep Lamba, January 1, 0001 Problem I am trying to understand how SQL Server communicates on the network, because I'm having to tell my networking team what ports to open up on the firewall for an edge web server to communicate back ... Network communications mechanisms for SQL Server 0 0 0
Instalar SQL Server 2008 Jason Ulloa, January 1, 0001 En este post trataré de explicar los pasos para la instalación de SQL y su posterior configuración. Primer paso: Instalación de las reglas de Soporte (Setup Support Rules) Está será la primer pantalla ... Instalar SQL Server 2008 0 0 2
Windows Azure Training Kit (November 2010 Release Update)–F... Jim Duffy, January 1, 0001 At PDC 2010 in October Microsoft announced a number of new enhancements/features for Windows Azure. In case you missed it, these new enhancements/features have been released in the new Windows Azure Tools ... Windows Azure Training Kit (November 2010 Release Update)–F... 0 0 0
Windows Azure powers Father Christmas Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 Ok it doesn’t really but the Microsoft Partner Network folks have hit gold with this rather addictive chrimbo game. It is great fun to play yet has a little serious side as it “rewards” you with a Windows ... Windows Azure powers Father Christmas 0 0 0
SharePoint 2010 installation guide (Windows 7 or Vista) – P... MJ Ferdous, January 1, 0001 SharePoint Installation in Windows 7 or Vista is not same as Windows Server 2008. You might have difficulties if you do not follow the proper steps. Here i have been tried to explain how to install SharePoint ... SharePoint 2010 installation guide (Windows 7 or Vista) – P... 0 0 3
SharePoint 2010 installation guide (Windows Server 2008) – ... MJ Ferdous, January 1, 0001 Here i will explain you how to install SharePoint 2010 on Windows Server 2008 x64 R2 and configure it. Prepare your server by —> Installing OS Windows Server 2008 x64 R2 and Windows update Configure ... SharePoint 2010 installation guide (Windows Server 2008) – ... 0 0 2
ASP.NET MVC 2 from Scratch – Part 1 Listing Data from Datab... Max, January 1, 0001 Part 1 - Listing Data from Database: Let us now learn ASP.NET MVC 2 from Scratch by actually developing a front end website for the Chinook database, which is an alternative to the traditional Northwind ... ASP.NET MVC 2 from Scratch – Part 1 Listing Data from Datab... 0 0 6
Free eBooks from Microsoft–We like free! Jim Duffy, January 1, 0001 In a recent blog post I mentioned the availability of the Programming Windows Phone 7 ebook by Charles Petzold. Well I have good news, there are a number of additional FREE ebooks available from Microsoft ... Free eBooks from Microsoft–We like free! 0 0 0
Visual Studio & TFS 2010 – List of extensions and upgra... terje, January 1, 0001 This post is about VS 2010, go here for the VS/TFS 11 extensions. UPDATED Apr 9th 2012: VersionInfo, NuGet, Code Contracts UPDATED Oct 7th 2012: New Visual Studio GDR UPDATED Aug 31th 2012: New versions ... Visual Studio & TFS 2010 – List of extensions and upgra... 0 0 5
APress Deal of the Day 4/Dec/2010 TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Todays Apress deal of the day at http://www.apress.com/info/... is for Crafting Digital Media. Full details at http://www.apress.com/book/... It covers software such as: Audacity Drupal ... APress Deal of the Day 4/Dec/2010 0 0 0
BizTalk on Windows 2007 Issues Vamsi Krishna, January 1, 0001 Issues Installating BizTalk on Windoes 2007 If you get the following error: Installing BizTalk on the Windows 7 platform, [5:02:36 PM Info SSOServerCfg] (ssoconfigobj2.cpp:5125) Returning error description: ... BizTalk on Windows 2007 Issues 0 0 0
Exploring SQL Smells Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 In honor of Phil Factor's recent post on SQL Smells, I thought I would post some blogs SQL smells and why some of them are bad as well as when they may be OK. Let's start with the top of the list that ... Exploring SQL Smells 0 0 0
Installing SQL Server Denali CTP Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 In keeping up with the releases this fall, I have gone through the exercise of installing Denali CTP on my Windows 7 dev machine. Started by running the installation center Selected a New SQL Server Installation ... Installing SQL Server Denali CTP 0 0 0
Uninstalling a SQL Server Clustered Instance.. Akshay Deep Lamba, January 1, 0001 Problem I have installed and uninstalled several instances of SQL Server in the past. Today, I need to uninstall a SQL Server 2008 R2 clustered instance. I have never uninstalled a clustered instance of ... Uninstalling a SQL Server Clustered Instance.. 0 0 1
All-In-One Data Platform Code Samples Jialiang, January 1, 0001 All-In-One Data Platform Code Samples Introduction Download Data Platform code samples Request Data Platform code samples Introduction The All-In-One Data Platform code samples demonstrate the typical ... All-In-One Data Platform Code Samples 0 0 0
Azure SDK 1.3 and Fresh New Developer Portal Available Shaun, January 1, 0001 Well now I’m busy with preparing my session about the Windows Azure AppFabric on TechED 2010 China, one of my colleagues Chen Pu told me that the new Azure Developer Portal was released last midnight. ... Azure SDK 1.3 and Fresh New Developer Portal Available 0 0 0
Free 2-day Azure bootcamp in Dallas Bill Osuch, January 1, 0001 MSDN Events Present: Azure 2 Day Bootcamp Event ID: 1032468997 Best Western Dallas Hotel and Conference Center Ballroom A 8051 Lyndon B Johnson Frwy Event Overview This is a 2-day deep dive program to ... Free 2-day Azure bootcamp in Dallas 0 0 0
Two FREE events: Silverlight FireStarter and using Bing with SQL ... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 I’m on holiday the 2nd of December (Its our 21st anniversary which is mind bogglingly aweseome ) so I had been rather ignoring what was going on workwise on the 2nd. My mistake as we have two cool learning ... Two FREE events: Silverlight FireStarter and using Bing with SQL ... 0 0 0
A Bargain E-Book a day from Apress TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Each day (US Pacific time), Apress makes available an e-book, at the bargain price of $10 at http://www.apress.com/info/... Today's book is SQL Server 2008 Query Performance Tuning Distilled ... A Bargain E-Book a day from Apress 0 0 0
Generating test data TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Whilst reading Pro ASP.NET 4 CMS (ISBN 987-1-4302-2712-0), I came across an excellent site for generating test data. The site is http://www.generatedata.com You can select the data items to generate. You ... Generating test data 0 0 0
Virtualization of SQL Server on VMware platform Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 We have gotten the chance to see Microsoft’s recommendations on how to go about providing a reliable virtualization platform to support SQL Server in a Hyper-V environment. While that defines an “ideal” ... Virtualization of SQL Server on VMware platform 0 0 0
SQL Azure Federation. Is it “NoSQL” Azure too? andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 With all the noise (not to mention the funk) around HTML 5 and Silverlight at PDC 2010, we could be forgiven for missing the numerous keynote announcements about Windows Azure and SQL Azure. And with all ... SQL Azure Federation. Is it “NoSQL” Azure too? 0 0 1
What is SharePoint? Part - 2 venkatx5, January 1, 0001 Most of the time, I get question from new friends who work in other technologies that "SharePoint is for Content Management/WebSite Creation?". Well, it's common because SharePoint is sucessor of Microsoft ... What is SharePoint? Part - 2 0 0 0
SQL Smells on Simple Talk Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 Phil Factor blogged about his quest for SQL Code Smells. He wants to start some discussions about coding standards and best / worst practices. This is sure to generate a lot of discussion. In fact it already ... SQL Smells on Simple Talk 0 0 0