Internet Explorer 8 and Maximum Concurrent Connections
As defined in 1999 (RFC 2616) “clients that use persistent connections should limit the number of simultaneous connections that they maintain to a given server. A single-user client SHOULD NOT maintain more than 2 connections with any server or proxy. A proxy SHOULD use up to 2*N connections ......
SQLAuthority Author Visit - Ahmedabad SQL Server User Group Meeting - July 19 2008
Ahmedabad SQL Server User Group is just 2 months old chapter but it is getting extremely popular among enthusiastic IT professionals. I have joined this group and suggest all the developers of Ahmedabad and surrounding areas to join this group. It does not matter which application you are using but......
The Weekly Source Code 30 - Spark and NHaml - Crazy ASP.NET MVC ViewEngines
I've been getting more and more interested in how folks extend their applications using plugins and things. In my new ongoing quest to read source code to be a better developer , Dear Reader, I present to you thirtieth in a infinite number of posts of " The Weekly Source Code ." Spark......
IronRuby With ASP.NET MVC Working Prototype
In June, John Lam wrote about a demo he gave at Tech-Ed 2008 where he showed IronRuby running on ASP.NET MVC. He posted the code for the demo online, but it relied on an unreleased version of MVC, so the code didn’t actually work. Now that Preview 4 is out, I revisited the prototype and got it work......
SQL SERVER - Change the Port of Service Broker Configuration
Just two day ago, I wrote small note about SQL SERVER - Introduction to Service Broker.Yesterday I wrote article where Service Broker throws error due to it is using same port as other application SQL Server - Fix - Error : 9692 The _MSG protocol transport cannot listen on port because it is in use......
SQL Server - Fix - Error : 9692 The _MSG protocol transport cannot listen on port because it is in use by another process.
If you face following error the solution of this is very simple.Error : 9692 The _MSG protocol transport cannot listen on port because it is in use by another process.Above error comes up with Service Broker. Service Broker is used to send Database Emails. Read more about SQL SERVER - Introduction ......
Internet Explorer 8 Address Bar like Windows Vista
Yesterday I brought up the question if there could be a change to the address bar of the next version of Internet Explorer. Since I’m using Windows Vista I’m very happy with the new view of the path in explorer.exe. It is very easy to navigate to parent folders by simple clicking on the part of the......
SCREENCAST: Rendering Polygons from SQL Server 2008 on Virtual Earth
In this screencast, I build off of the concepts shown in my previous screencast and show you how to render a polygon on a Virtual Earth map using REST, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), LINQ to SQL, and the new geography data type in SQL Server 2008. To learn more about the GeoRSS utility li......
SCREENCAST: Saving Virtual Earth Polygons to SQL Server 2008
In this screencast, I show you how to draw a polygon on a Virtual Earth map and save it using ASP.NET AJAX, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), LINQ to SQL, and the new geography data type in SQL Server 2008. Screencast: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/keydet/Saving-Virtual-Earth-Polygons-to-......
SQL SERVER - Introduction to Service Broker
Service Broker is message queuing for SQL Server. It is used for sending emails and through Database Mails. You can read about SQL SERVER - Difference Between Database Mail and SQLMail here. Service Broker is feature which provides facility to SQL Server to send an asynchronous, transactional messa......
Will ASP.NET MVC be the main web UI platform for ASP.NET?
Microsoft folks are very enthusiastic ! We love to dig in to new technology and show off the cool work that we do and this has been VERY true of ASP.NET MVC. Unfortunately, sometimes our zeal get's misinterpreted. I'm getting lots of questions about the future of ASP.NET development as it p......
Maximum performance using Telerik RadGrid client-side data-binding with LINQ to SQL
As I mentioned in one of my previous posts with RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX Q2 2008 you can access the grid sort and filter expressions on the client.
While filter expressions toString() method will create SQL syntax representing current grid filtering now you have toDynamicLinq() method which will cr......
Proof of Concept: a simple DI solution for ASP.NET WebForms
Chris Tavares and I were chatting yesterday morning about an idea Chris had: building a simple, reusable Http Module that gives folks DI scoped to the Application, Session, and Request. Yesterday afternoon, during the p&p Dev team's weekly "Code Kata" we threw together a spike/pro......
SQLAuthority News - Ahmedabad SQL Server Usergroup Meeting
I will be attending Ahmedabad SQL Server Usergroup Meeting on July 19, 2008. I will be taking session about “SQL Server Best Practices“. I invite all of the SQL enthusiastic to stop by User Group Meeting and meet all the fellow developers, DBAs and members.Location : 401, TIME SQUARE, CG road, Op B......
Test Center preview: Microsoft`s " "Katmai" " is filled to the brim
Katmai, the code name for Microsoft's imminent SQL Server 2008 release, comes from an Alaskan territory know for volcanoes, which may not be the best symbol for a database. So far, however, Katmai hasn't blown up on me. And the lower-profile Katmai seems like a good follow-on to Yukon, the code nam......
ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 - Using Ajax and Ajax.Form
ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 is up on CodePlex . The Gu has all the exquisite Gu-Like Detail on his blog . If you take a look at the generated "changes" document, it shows a bunch of new stuff like AjaxHelpers and AjaxExtensions that set the stage for some interesting things the community could ......
Displaying Detail Records for User-Selected Master Records :: Saving the User's Search Preferences
Last week's article, Using a Dynamic IN Clause, showed how to display detail records
for a set of user-selected master records. This entailed creating a User Defined Function
(UDF) in the database that would translate a comma-delimited string into tabular data that could then be parsed by SQL'......
Displaying Detail Records for User-Selected Master Records :: Saving the User`s Search Preferences
Last week's article, Using a Dynamic IN Clause, showed how to display detail records
for a set of user-selected master records. This entailed creating a User Defined Function
(UDF) in the database that would translate a comma-delimited string into tabular data that could then be parsed by SQL's I......
Instinct Experiment Over…Back to Windows Mobile
Over the past few weeks I’ve been trying out the Sprint Instinct touch screen phone to see how I liked it. I wrote my initial review here and posted some tips and tricks on using the device here. The poor browsing experience on the Instinct finally led me to take it back to the store ye......
Notes on ASP.NET MVC CodePlex Preview 4
(If you want to skip all the blah blah blah, go straight to the release ) What I love about working with The Gu (aka ScottGu, the man with many aliases) is that he makes my life easier with his gargantuan and detailed blog posts covering the features of each release. This allows me to follow up and......
SQL SERVER - Readers Contribution to Site - Simple Example of Cursor
eaders are very important to me. Without their active participation this site would not be the community helping web site. I encourage readers participation and request that you help other users with your knowledge.I recently come across very good communication between two of blog readers. I want t......
Summer ASP.NET Missions
Spring is ugly in my job. From early March until late June I'm on the road. Conferences, Meetings, etc. Then when I finally get done my spring traveling.... There is "make up" work to do. I have to "make it up" to my two little princess and my wife. Work my way through a who......
Installing SQL Server 2008 RC0 & Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta on the same machine
I've been having some issues getting my VPC updated to SQL Server 2008 RC0 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta so I can record a couple screencasts on using Virtual Earth with SQL Server 2008. I swear I read through the readme docs:). However, I could not get Visual Studio 2008 SP1 to insta......
Are you a Silverlight rockstar? Get a killer job.
A great agency in Seattle, ramp group is looking for a rockstar Silverilght developer -- see JD below. Good luck!
Silverlight 2 Developer
Ramp Group
Bellevue, WA
www.rampgroup.com
Key skills: .Net Framework, C#, Silverlight 2.0, XML
Are you interested in working on a pr......
ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 Release (Part 1)
The ASP.NET MVC team is in the final stages of finishing up a new "Preview 4" release that they hope to ship later this week. The Preview 3 release focused on finishing up a lot of the underlying core APIs and extensibility points in ASP.NET MVC. Starting with Preview 4 thi......
SQL SERVER - 2008 - Introduction to SPARSE Columns - Part 2
Previously I wrote about SQL SERVER - 2008 - Introduction to SPARSE Columns. Let us understand the concept of SPARSE column in more detail. I suggest you read the first part before continuing reading this article.All SPARSE columns are stored as one XML column in database. Let us see some of the ad......
SQL SERVER - SP_CONFIGURE - Displays or Changes Global Configuration Settings
It is very good to know our server and its feature which are available for configurations. SQL Server 2008/2005/2000 always have many feature which can be enabled or disabled. One should atleast know what are the options SQL Server provides.If advanced settings are not enabled at configuration leve......
Three New Master Page Tutorials Published
Tutorials #6, #7, and #8 in my Master Pages Tutorial series on www.asp.net have been published. These tutorials examine the interaction between the master page and its content pages:
Interacting with the Master Page from the Content Page [VB | C#] - there may be times when the content page needs......
My Latest Silverlight Articles
Over the past few months I've been writing articles for the .NET Insight insight newsletter covering various ASP.NET AJAX concepts. You can read those article here. I've wrapped up that series and have started writing about Silverlight 1.0. Each week (or so) a new article will be ......
Sprint Instinct Tips and Tricks
In a previous post I discussed some of the pros and cons of the new Sprint Instinct phone that I recently purchased. I’ve had the phone for a few weeks now and still like it a lot overall. It’s not nearly as flexible as the PPC-6700 phone I had previously when it comes to installing so......
Displaying Detail Records for User-Selected Master Records :: Using a Dynamic IN Clause
The master/detail report pattern is used to display information in two database tables that share a one-to-many relationship. Typically the user is shown
a list of the master records and can pick one to view the corresponding detail records. Consider the Northwind database that models product in......
Speeding Up FireFox When Using the ASP.NET Development Server from Localhost
I have long used FireFox as my default browser for surfing the web, but I typically test my ASP.NET pages on Internet Explorer for a couple of reasons:
Some of the larger software projects I work on are developing intranet applications, where all users' browsers are fixed (IE 6 for one client, I......
Using ScriptManager with other frameworks
ScriptManager is a useful control. It manages script references, removes duplicates, enables localization and debug/release modes, enables script combining and makes client-side component-based development easier (components register their script dependencies with ScriptManager without the page dev......
July's Toolbox Column Online
My Toolbox column in the July 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine is avaiable online. The July issue examines:
ScrewTurn Wiki - a wiki is a web application whose content is maintained by its users. Adding a wiki to your site is remarkably easy with ScrewTurn Wiki, a free, open-source ASP.NET wiki applic......
ASP.NET Ajax roadmap published
We just published our roadmap for ASP.NET Ajax. In this document we describe some of the proposed features that we are considering investing in future releases of ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Web Developer, and the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit. We really appreciate your feedback, so this document is in......
Techniques for Randomly Reordering an Array
While reading through some of Jeff Atwood's old blog entries, I stumbled across this gem:
The Danger of Naivete. In it, Jeff discussed the pitfalls the can befall a programmer
who implements a naive algorithm and calls it a day. Consider an algorithm to randomly reorder an array. If you have a ......
ASP.NET Podcast Show #119 - Using the History (Back) Functionality with the ASP.NET AJAX Web Services in .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta 1
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Pros and Cons of the Sprint Instinct Phone
There’s been a lot of hype over Apple’s new iPhone 3G coming out on July 11th as well as Sprint’s recently released Instinct phone. I was originally going to switch over to AT&T and get the iPhone but it meant switching my wife over as well since we need to be able to call each other wit......
Random Grammar/Style Question
When writing my Security Tutorials for www.asp.net, I often wrote sentences like the following: “To log in to the site, ...” Although sometimes I'd write it, “To log into the site, ...” and other times I'd use, “To login to the site...”
I can't say with certainty whether any one of these three are......
Examining ASP.NET's Membership, Roles, and Profile - Part 11
Many websites that support user account allow anyone to create a new account, but require new users to undergo some form of verification before their
account is activated. A common approach is to send an email to the newly created user with a link that, when visited, activates their account. Th......
The Economics Behind Writing Subsequent Editions (for Computer Trade Books)
The economics behind the college text book must be interesting. I've not written any textbooks, so my comments here are based more on assumption than knowledge, but what I but what always intrigued me - whilst a college student, at least - was how authors would release different versions of books a......
ASP.NET Podcast Show #118 - Paul on Peer-To-Peer with Windows Communication Foundation
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Pushing Data to a Silverlight Client with a WCF Duplex Service – Part II
In Part 1 of this series on pushing data to a Silverlight client with a WCF polling duplex service I demonstrated how service contracts and operations can be defined on the server. WCF has built-in support for duplex communication (two-way communication between a service and a client) but d......
Building Interactive User Interfaces with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX: Using the Timer Control
Microsoft's ASP.NET AJAX framework ships with a mere five Web controls: the ScriptManager and ScriptManagerProxy;
the UpdatePanel; the UpdateProgress; and the Timer. Previous installments in this article series have examined all but one control, the Timer.
As we've seen from the first installme......
ASP.NET Podcast Show #117 - Using the History Functionality with the ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel in .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta 1
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Pushing Data to a Silverlight Client with a WCF Duplex Service - Part I
Silverlight provides several different ways to access data stored in remote locations. Data can be pulled from Web Services and RESTful services and even pushed from servers down to clients using sockets (see my previous articles on sockets here, here and here). Silverlight 2 Beta 2 int......
Not NotNorthwind
Scott Hanselman, one of my favorite bloggers, has expressed his deep disdain for Northwind.
I'm just sick of Northwind. Sick to death of the Northwind Database. You know, this is the Products, Categories, Suppliers, yada yada yada sample database that you've been seeing in Microsoft demos since ......
Script reference profiler
ASP.NET Ajax 3.5 SP1 contains a new feature that enables the application developer to combine scripts in order to reduce the number of downloaded files. But in order to do that, the developer must have a way of discovering what scripts are being used in a page or application.
To make that easier, ......
Disabling a User Interface Element During a Partial Page Postback
When using Microsoft's ASP.NET AJAX framework and an UpdatePanel whose ChildrenAsTriggers is set to True (the default), anytime a user interface element
within the UpdatePanel would normally cause a full page postback, a partial page postback is performed instead. For example, clicking a Button......
Two New Master Page Tutorials Published
As I noted in an earlier blog post, in May the first of my Master Pages tutorials were published on www.asp.net. Two new master page tutorials were put online today:
URLs in Master Pages [VB | C#] - one challenge with master pages is that the master page and linked resources - image files, hyper......