[ANN] The Real World Haskell Book Club
As I was heading out the door last week for my Thanksgiving holiday, I noticed a package from Amazon on my front porch, which was the long awaited Real World Haskell book. If you have been following this book and its progress through their Real World Haskell blog, you should know the massi......
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Improving Debugging And Testing Through Assertions
Reading through the The Typemock Insider blog, I came across this post from Gil Zilberfeld. I myself tend to fall in Gil’s practice ("binary search" debugging), but I don’t think Kent Beck has the right solution. Gil’s suggestion of using Isolator is tempting (I don’t miss an opport......
Modifying the HTTP Response Using Filters
When a browser requests an ASP.NET page from a web server, the ASP.NET engine takes that request through a number of steps that, together, generate
the resulting markup, which is returned to the requesting browser for display. The stages in this process are referred to as the HTTP Pipeline and
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Scheduling PowerShell tasks without a console window
Have you every wanted to use Windows Task Scheduler to run a PowerShell script on a frequent schedule, but hated how the console window would flash on the screen every time the script ran? Yeah, me too.
Apparently the task scheduler API supports hiding the console window, but the command l......
SQL SERVER - Default Collation of SQL Server 2008
Recently I wrote article about SQL SERVER - 2008 - Install SQL Server 2008 - How to Upgrade to SQL Server 2008 - Installation Tutorial, I received couple of comment suggesting that I did not talk about SQL Server default collation setting or how to change default collation when installing SQL Serve......
Dec 2nd Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight/WPF
I'm flying out later today on a pretty intense business trip (22,000 miles, 5 countries, 3 continents, 1 week, no sleep... :-), so my blog activity over the next week and a half will be pretty light. To keep you busy till I return, here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also c......
December's Toolbox Column Now Online
My Toolbox column in the December 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine is avaiable online. The December issue examines:
Improving Software Quality with Static Code Analysis Tools, in which three tools are examined:
FxCop - a free tool from Microsoft that examines compiled assemblies for conformance to......
SQL SERVER - 2008 - Install SQL Server 2008 - How to Upgrade to SQL Server 2008 - Installation Tutorial
SQL SERVER 2008 RTM has been released for some time and I have got numerous request about how to install SQL Server 2008. I have created this step by step guide Installation Guide. Images are used to explain the process easier. I had previously wrote the same article earlier. It seemed necessary to......
Charting in ASP.NET, ASP.NET Chart Controls for .NET 3.5 SP1
Here is a HelloWorld sample on the new ASP.NET Charting control. To begin with, install the free Microsoft Chart Controls and the "Tools for VS 2008 for Chart Controls" from here and here Note that if you don’t install the Tools for VS 2008 for Chart controls, the Chart Server Control doe......
How to Quickly Add Large Quantities of Data into DotNetNuke Modules
This tutorial demonstrates a method for quickly adding large amounts of data into a DotNetNuke module. The module in this example is the core Documents module.
Throughout the tutorial we walk you through the methods used for investigating how to add large amounts of data into the Documents module ......
SQL SERVER - Roadmap of Microsoft Certifications - SQL Server Certifications
In these times of economical slowdown, more and more IT professionals are concerned about their jobs and their qualifications. It is a common trend for developers to start looking for ways to update their skills when jobs are not secure. Pure knowledge and real world work experience are always a go......
Step-by-Step SQL Mirroring the ASPState database
SQL Mirroring made easy - setting up a mirror for a database...Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
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SQL SERVER - Interesting Observation - Use of Index and Execution Plan
Previously I wrote article about SQL SERVER - Interesting Observation about Order of Resultset without ORDER BY and I have received tremendous response from my readers by emails and comments. Readers demanded that I should have written little more for the same subject. As I really liked the subject......
Instantiating components on template markup
All client-side template engines enable you to create HTML (feel free to go ‘duh’). What they don’t all allow is the creation of event handlers and components over the markup they generate. The general approach with those engines is to do a second pass of code over the markup to create handlers and......
Spell checker update 2.2: full support for VS 2008 SP1, simpler setup and a few bug fixes
Download: VSSpellChecker.msi What's new in version 2.2: Spell checker now fully supports VS 2008 SP1 Content of <code>, <abbr> and <address> elements is ignored Setup no longer requires COM registration, it uses VS AddIn registration in XML file List of words to ignore (SpellC......
ASP.Net Worker Process and ISAPI
The process within ASP.Net Application runs. Where asp.net application request is processed and response sent back to client, that process is known as worker process.
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Poll on Moving Subtext To ASP.NET 3.5
How many of you out there who use Subtext host it on a hosting provider who does not have ASP.NET 3.5 available? I’d like to make the next version of Subtext 2 take a dependency on 3.5. Note that it wouldn’t have to take a dependency on SP1. Just ASP.NET 3.5 proper as I believe most hosting provide......
Fun with T4 templates and Dynamic Data
T4 templates have been a pretty popular topic lately. If you have no idea what they are, don’t feel bad, I didn’t either only a couple weeks ago! In a nutshell, it’s a simple template processor that’s built into VS and allows for all kind of cool code generation scenario. For a bunch of information......
SQLAuthority News - Download Tools and Documentation for SQL SERVER
SQL Server 2008 Report Definition Language SpecificationThe goal of Report Definition Language (RDL) is to promote the interoperability of commercial reporting products by defining a common schema that allows interchange of report definitions. An important aspect to understand is that RDL is a sche......
The Weekly Source Code 37 - Geolocation/Geotargeting (Reverse IP Address Lookup) in ASP.NET MVC made easy
First, let me remind you that in my new ongoing quest to read source code to be a better developer , Dear Reader, I present to you thirty-seventh in a infinite number of posts of " The Weekly Source Code ." I'm working on a side-project with Rob Conery , Dave Ward and others and I wan......
Video of my TechEd presentation of Common Issues in ASP.NET and how to debug them with Windbg
My TechEd presentation “Common Issues in ASP.NET and how to debug them with Windbg” is now up on channel 9, so if you want to watch it, here you go http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/MSDNSweden/Vanliga-fel-som-grs-med-ASPNET-och-hur-du-hittar-dem-med-WinDbg/ Have fun, Tess Read More......(read more)...
A Google Chart API Custom Server Control
Last week's article, Creating Charts with the Google Chart API, looked at how
to use Google's free Chart API to generate line, pie, bar, and other types of charts from an ASP.NET page. The Google Chart API is callable via a
URL that contains the chart type, size, data, and other parameters in t......
ASP.NET MVC on IIS 6 Walkthrough
I’ve seen a lot of reports where people have trouble getting ASP.NET MVC up and running on IIS 6. Sometimes the problem is a very minor misconfiguration, sometimes it’s a misunderstanding of how IIS 6 works. In this post, I want to provide a definitive guide to getting ASP.NET MVC running on IIS 6.......
DotNetNuke Raises Venture Capital
Earlier this week we announced that DotNetNuke has raised venture capital from a syndicate of tier 1 venture capital firms, August Capital and Sierra Ventures. Considering the current state of the global economy, this announcement is a huge vote of confidence in our product and community, and a tes......
Getting Started with the ASP.NET 3.5 Chart Control
I think it’s safe to say that charting is a key part of many applications run on company Intranets. People like to see data visually as opposed to viewing it in rows and columns sometimes (especially higher level managers). While there are many 3rd party solutions available that provide......
Microsoft Web Platform Installer Release Candidate – Now works with XP and Windows 2003!
I'm going to blatantly steal Bill Staples words since they were so good :) "I’m excited to announce the availability of the Release Candidate version of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Web PI). Web PI is a free tool that makes it simple to download and install the ......
Should HTML be considered as a data format?
As HTML is becoming more and more semantic, at least in intent, and all styling is moving into CSS, one has to wonder what it is now representing. It seems like it is now a format for unstructured data (a.k.a. rich text), in the same sense that XML and JSON are formats for semi-structured and struc......
Tip # 30: Did you know... Ajax Extender controls UI behaves differently in VS 2008 than in VS 2005
In VS 2005, you can drag and drop an extender control anywhere on the design surface. However, in VS 2008, you can drop an extender only on an ASP control which the extender can extend its functionality. When you drag an extender and hover it over a control...(read more)...
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New ASP.NET Charting Control:
Microsoft recently released a cool new ASP.NET server control - <asp:chart /> - that can be used for free with ASP.NET 3.5 to enable rich browser-based charting scenarios: Download the free Microsoft Chart Controls Download the VS 2008 Tool Support for the Chart Controls ......
Simplifying the edit in place behavior
Last week, I wrote about building a simple behavior to edit text in place. Almost at the same time, Nikhil was building a similar component for Silverlight, but it was considerably simpler because instead of substituting a label for the textbox on blur, he was just changing the border so that the t......
SQL Resources
Last week, we launched SQLFeeds.com, a community-moderated site focused on providing SQL developers and DBAs with high signal-to-noise SQL content. If you have a favorite source of SQL wisdom, please add it to the sites feed list (which you can do anonymously from the home page). If you......
SQLAuthority Author Visit - Ahmedabad SQL Server User Group Meeting - November 2008
It is time again to announce SQL Hour - SQL Server User Group Meeting for November 2008. This time it is going to be one really interesting event. Our User Group is growing and getting more interesting. Lots of new SQL Server enthusiastic have contacted me recently for User Group meeting. It is the......
Configuring SharePoint Forms Authentication using SQL Server
In this article, Steven demonstrates the steps required to configure forms authentication in SharePoint using SQL Server as a database engine. He begins explaining the idea behind the article and then examines the configuration of SQL Server including the creation of the database, establishment of ......
SQL SERVER - Interesting Observation about Order of Resultset without ORDER BY
Today I observed very interesting little thing about SQL Server and I felt that I should share this with my readers.I ran following two queries and found that I am getting different result-set. When I carefully observed I found that actually the result was same but order of the records returned is ......
SQL SERVER - 2008 - Download and Install Samples Database AdventureWorks 2008
The following sample databases are currently available for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008:The AdventureWorks OLTP database supports standard online transaction processing scenarios for a fictitious bicycle manufacturer (Adventure Works Cycles). Scenarios include Manufacturi......
Putting more than one behavior on one element
Microsoft Ajax has the interesting ability to combine more than one component onto a single element. In the previous talk, I alluded to this possibility and one of the commenters (Tiamat) asked me to show how this is done. Here is an example that combines the new EditInPlace behavior I showed yest......
Sing it brother Frans!
http://weblogs.asp.net/fbouma/archive/2008/11/21/baby-sitter-framework-2-0-change-tracking-in-the-ef-v2-it-s-still-your-problem.aspx
So, I'm tooling around the web this morning and I came upon Frans Brouma's post about change tracking in EF. Let me say that I don't like EF so far, but that's......
SQL SERVER - Simple Use of Cursor to Print All Stored Procedures of Database Including Schema
I love active participation from my readers. Just a day ago I wrote article about SQL SERVER - Simple Use of Cursor to Print All Stored Procedures of Database. I just received comment from Jerry Hung who have improved on previously written article of generating text of Stored Procedure.DECLARE @pro......
Building a neat edit in place behavior
For the purposes of my next post, I built a neat little edit in place behavior and I thought it deserved its own post. It does a pretty good job at showing how easy it is to build a clean behavior using ASP.NET Ajax. It’s always good to go back to the basics… In this post, I’ll show you how the beh......
jQuery Intellisense in VS 2008
Last month I blogged about how Microsoft is extending support for jQuery. Over the last few weeks we've been working with the jQuery team to add great jQuery intellisense support within Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008 Express (which is free). This is now available to......
SQLAuthority News - SQL Server White Paper: SQL Server 2008 Compliance Guide
Organizations across the globe are being inundated with regulatory requirements. They also have a strong need to better manage their IT systems to ensure they are operating efficiently and staying secure. Microsoft is often asked to provide guidance and technology to assist organizations struggling......
Deep Zoom without Silverlight
In a move that I wouldn’t have bet a dollar on, Live Labs released a purely JavaScript Deep Zoom client. You read that right, what was so far one of the nice features only found in Silverlight is now available in an open web, standards-based version.
Seadragon.embed("451px", "338px", "http:/......
New Version of Error Logging Modules and Handlers (ELMAH) Available
ELMAH is a free, open-source library created by Atif Aziz for logging errors that occur in an ASP.NET application. I've written about ELMAH many times before; its one of the first things I setup when creating a new ASP.NET application. A new version - ELMAH 1.0 BETA 3 - was recently released.
With......
One thing you didn’t know about ASP.NET unless you’re David Ebbo
David has an excellent post about a pretty cool ASP.NET feature that you almost certainly don’t know about. I had no idea for sure. Check it out.
http://blogs.msdn.com/davidebb/archive/2008/11/19/a-hidden-gem-for-control-builder-writers.aspx
UPDATE: and there he goes again...http://blogs.msdn.com......
Taken the Team System Plunge
Ok, so Microsoft's Team Foundation Server has been available for
several years. We've stuck with a couple of open source source control
/ project management apps. John keeps moving things around and trying
new stuff. I've just stuck with the evil SourceSafe because it was
simp......
Creating Charts with the Google Chart API
I've always wondered how the phrase "A picture is worth a thousand words" came about. I like to think that it was coined by some mid-level manager
viewing a sales figures report that consisted of metrics from the past 1,000 days. After scanning this long list of numbers, he found, at the
bottom......
delicious_prog : ASP.NET AJAX > The UpdatePanel Control > Working with PageRequestManager Events http://tinyurl.com/5s72dk
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tobin : @merejames I would but we prefer desktop clients here :P I am trying to convince the guys to do a little ASP.NET MVC stuff :)
tobin : @ merejames I would but we prefer desktop clients here :P I am trying to convince the guys to do a little ASP.NET MVC stuff :) Read More......(read more)...