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Live Smooth Streaming: Retrieving the configuration settings via code

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:45:00 GMT

In my previous post, I explained how the Microsoft.Web.Administration API of IIS7 helped us to manage the Live Smooth Streaming Publishing Points programmatically. In this post I'm going to show you how, using the same API, you can retrieve the Live Smooth Streaming configuration settings.

The Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:45:00 GMT

What happens when you get a few web developers who like puzzles together? Check out Jeff Blankenburg's post on the Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever, and rise to the challenge!

What is Unit Testing?

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:45:02 GMT

good introductory article explaining what unit tests are (and are not) and why you should use them

SQL SERVER - 2005 - 2008 - Delete Duplicate Rows

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:00:00 GMT

This method is improved over the earlier method as it not only uses CTE and ROW_NUMBER, but also demonstrates the power of CTE with DELETE statement. We will have a comprehensive discussion about it later in this article. For now, let us first create a sample table from which we will delete records. A Must BookMark!

Maximum Number of Index per Table

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:45:03 GMT

One of the questions was - What is the maximum number of Index per table? I received lots of answers to this question but only two answers are correct. Let us now take a look at them.

OpenForum - A Free Forum for ASP.NET MVC Applications

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:15:01 GMT

One of the things that I really like about the MVC framework is that it offers some unique possibilities when it comes to third parties developing entire sub-systems that can easily be plugged into existing applications. Recently, I had some "down time" at my work and decided to take the opportunity to experiment with doing just that. Here are the results of that experiment. OpenForum is a forum that can easily be plugged into any MVC application with very little effort. In fact, there are only three steps to get OpenForum working with most MVC applications.

Profiling the Memory Usage of a .NET Application

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:45:02 GMT

Automatic memory management in .NET makes development a lot easier; however, it's still easy to introduce memory leaks into your application. For example, in a complex application, it's easy to forget to unregister event handlers, and these are notorious for holding on to objects which you don't need to keep in memory any more. This typically leads to an increase in memory usage which, if it remains unchecked and unresolved, can lead to your application exhibiting poor performance, or even running out of memory and crashing. This is where a memory profiler becomes necessary.

Never worry about ASP.NET AJAX's "d" again

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:30:00 GMT

Since a lot of people are having trouble with it, I want to share one method you can use to completely isolate your code from the ".d" problem. In this post, I will show you how to detect the ".d" and how you can completely isolate your $.ajax success handler from it.

Treating Warnings as Errors in Visual Studio

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:00:00 GMT

The compiler used by Visual Studio can produce errors when code cannot be built and warnings when it completes compilation successfully but there are areas of concern. To avoid warnings being missed or ignored, there is an option to treat them as errors.

Handy Regular Expressions - Zip/Postal code validation for US and Cana

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:45:03 GMT

Handy Regular Expression Zip/Postal code validation for US and Canada in the same expression for common form validation.

A Better SMTP Development Server

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:45:00 GMT

Looking for a way to test the email sending functionality of your application? There's no need to install a full-blown SMTP server - not as long as you have Antix SMTP Server for Developers in your bag of tricks.

JavaScript Shortcuts

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

Write more compact JavaScript with these two tips.

Testing E-Mail Functionality

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:30:00 GMT

If you are looking for a very robust testing utility for e-mailing applications, you need to get Neptune. This is a quick introduction to how Neptune works. Every software developer who has ever written software that sends e-mail of any kind will appreciate the features this little testing utility.

Exploring how to use Expressions w/ Spark

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:15:00 GMT

Exploring how to use Expressions w/ Spark. We are going to take a look at the various different ways you can use Looping Expressions with the Spark View engine.

.NET - IP Address Location In ASP.NET

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:45:02 GMT

Get client's ip address from a free online web query.

Session Attacks and ASP.NET - Part 2

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:00:00 GMT

In Session Attacks and ASP.NET - Part 1, I introduced one type of attack against the session called Session Fixation as well as ASP.NET's session architecture and authentication architecture. In this second post, I'll delve into a couple specific attack scenarios, cover risk reduction, and countermeasures specific to ASP.NET for protecting against session attacks in ASP.NET

Thread.Sleep is a sign of a poorly designed program.

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:15:02 GMT

Other than for debug code, Peter details why Thread.Sleep isn't for production code.

Recompiling Stored Procedures - All, Few or One at a time

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:30:00 GMT

Handy queries to show how to recompile all stored procedures at once, recompile a few or recompile one at a time

Application-wide action filters in ASP.NET MVC

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:30:02 GMT

Ever had a team of developers using your ASP.NET MVC framework? Chances are you have implemented some action filters (i.e. for logging) which should be applied on all controllers in the application. Two ways to do this: kindly ask your developers to add a [Logging] attribute to the controllers they write, or kindly ask to inherit from SomeCustomControllerWithActionsInPlace. If you have been in this situation, monday mornings, afternoons, tuesdays and other weekdays are in fact days where some developers will forget to do one of the above. This means no logging! Or any other action filters that are executed due to a developer that has not been fed with enough coffee. Wouldn't it be nice to have a central repository where you can register application-wide action filters? That's exactly what we are going to do in this blog post.

CLR Injection: Runtime Method Replacer

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:30:00 GMT

how the JIT compiles MSIL and create a utility that allow us to programmatically replace any JIT'ed method with another method at runtime. We will also create a debugging utility that will intercept JIT calls and print diagnostics information to the console.

Compiling Conditional Code into ASP.NET Websites

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

The following article demonstrates how to compile conditional code into your ASP.NET assembly.

ASP.NET MVC Tip 3: Implementing remote client-side form validation

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:45:00 GMT

Client-side form validation has become a de-facto standard for modern web applications. However, there are some validation rules which cannot be checked completely on the client side, for example because the validation depends on information stored in the server database. For those rules you need to implement remote client-side form validation. This article describes how to implement this so that you don't have to write any custom javascript for new validation rules.

Visual Studio 2010: Brief view at debug history

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:15:00 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 introduces also some new debugging features. One of them is debug history. Debug history enables you to track all the points on track of control flow and it also monitors activities that you cannot see otherwise. It makes debugging of hard to find problems much easier, I think. Of course, there are many other new and cool debugging features available.

Fast Add Reference Dialog for VS 2010

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT

I have spent a couple of days on implementing a fast add reference dialog box for Visual Studio. The time of adding a reference has been a great time to have some coffee, to have lunch, or even a way to save economy (remember, developer time costs money!).

http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/06/17/sql-server-list-schema-name-an

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:00:00 GMT

Just a day ago, I was looking for script which generates all the tables in database along with its schema name. I tried to Search@SQLAuthority.com but got too many results. For the same reason, I am going to write down today's quick and small blog post and I will remember that I had written I wrote it after my 1000th article.