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Advanced SQL Server 2005 Express Job Scheduling

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:29:39 GMT

How to make run once, daily, weekly, monthly absolute and relative scheduling in SQL Server Express 2005 and 2008 without any 3rd party tools.

Update on Silverlight 2 - and a glimpse of Silverlight 3

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:16:21 GMT

ScottGu unveils the plans for Silverlight 3, shipping next year

Breaking changes to the String class in .NET 4.0

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:31:13 GMT

This change will affect the behavior of the String.StartsWith, String.EndsWith, String.IndexOf and String.LastIndexOf methods by changing them to perform an ordinal (byte-for-byte) comparison by default instead of a culture-sensitive comparison using CultureInfo.CurrentCulture. In addition, the default overloads of String.ToUpper, String.ToLower, Char.ToUpper and Char.ToLower will be changed to use CultureInfo.InvariantCulture instead of CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.

Exporting a Reporting Services report to multiple Excel tabs

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:12:40 GMT

Short demonstration on how to create a report so that it will export to more than one Microsoft Excel worksheet.

Suspicious DNK Accounts

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:31:29 GMT

Conclusion There is an incentive for publishers that use DNK to setup phony accounts that will help get stories from certain domains on the front page. So guess what happens ... it would appear that a certain number of people are doing this.

I KILL-ed you! Now can I go for a coffee break while you die?

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:05:42 GMT

Find out how long it will take for a rollback to complete in SQL Server with the help of a little know feature of the KILL keyword.

Free Winforms and ASP.NET Chart Controls

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:31:02 GMT

Directly from Microsoft

Handycons - a free, hand drawn social media icon set, By Janco

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:31:02 GMT

Handycons is a free, hand drawn social media icon set that contains 12 icons. Package contains icons for del.icio.us, Digg, Mixx, DesignBump, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Developer Zone, DesignFloat, Technorati, Twitter and RSS feed and Email icon, of course. All icons are available in four sizes: 16x16, 24x24, 32x32 and 48x48 pixels

Different ways how to escape an XML string in C#

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:43:42 GMT

XML encoding is necessary if you have to save XML text in an XML document. If you don't escape special chars the XML to insert will become a part of the original XML DOM and not a value of a node. Here are 4 ways of doing this that you may or may not know.

Scaling out SQL Server Reporting Services

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:28:28 GMT

Links to good resources for scaling out Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services for a high-volume, fault-tolerant environment.

Custom user configurable SQL Server Profiler events

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:00:07 GMT

SQL Server Profiler is a well known tool for tracing different activity that happens between your server and the clients connected to it. But very few people know that you can have custom events and trace them in the SQL Server Profiler.

Copy text from a MessageBox

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:31:02 GMT

How many times you wished you could copy text from the MessageBox. YOU CAN.

SQL Server - Restore a database backup via the command line

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:16:02 GMT

This article presents how an SQL Server 2005 database can be restored from the command line with one quick batch file. Ex: restore.bat LavaBlast

Some Thoughts on Oslo

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:31:10 GMT

The concept of modelling software in an abstract manner to ease the process of creating the real thing has been around for a while. And in all that time it's never really taken off in the mainstream. So it's pretty exciting to hear Microsoft has decided to give it a go - Microsoft have always been clever when it comes to examining the landscape, taking out the best bits, and building something that stands out from the rest. Let's hope they learn the lessons of others and produce something that's really different.

SSMS Tools PACK 1.1 - now with SSMS 2008 support

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:01:09 GMT

With this new version you can use it for SQL Server Management Studio 2008 and SQL Server Management Studio 2008 Express. Plus some extra features.

Disabling constraints on a SQL Server table

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:04:39 GMT

How to disable constraints on a SQL Server table.

Using Covering Indexes to Improve Query Performance

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:16:56 GMT

Link to a Simple-Talk article that discusses how you can include columns in the leaf nodes of nonclustered indexes to improve query performance.

Thought Driven Development a Methodology of Abile Development

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:46:03 GMT

Warning: This is a rant against TDD extremism! Sensitive TDD people better step out of this dark sleazy communist place right now! Why do I pick on TDD? Because it makes no sense. The development and design shall be driven by thought not by test. Yes some people are able to "think" better about their problems while using TDD. Kudos to them! But not all people are alike.

UK Software Consultant Nightmare: The IT Recruiting Agents

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:16:02 GMT

The definite guide to the tricks and tactics employed by some IT recruting agents that made the UK software consultant's recruting process a nightmare.

Using Reflection to Populate a ComboBox from an Enumeration

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:31:02 GMT

A short how to on how to use Reflection to Populate a ComboBox from an Enumeration.

C# Data Structures

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:56:34 GMT

Explore the data structures present in C#.Net and the basic idea on when to use each. You might find some that you didn't know about.

Asynchronous ASP.NET 2.0 Programming

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:40:16 GMT

One of the coolest features in ASP.NET 2.0 is asynchronous pages. This feature increase scalability by using thread-pool threads more efficiently.

SQL SERVER - Guidelines and Coding Standards Complete List Download

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:16:12 GMT

Coding standards and guidelines are very important for any developer on the path of successful career. A coding standard is a set of guidelines, rules and regulations on how to write code. Coding standards should be flexible enough or should take care of the situation where they should not prevent best practices for coding. They are basically the guidelines that one should follow for better understanding. The concept behind implementing coding standards and guidelines, is that the consistency and uniformity in programming so that if multiple people are working on the same code, it becomes easier to communicate, share with or understand each other's work. With the goal of promoting good coding standards and guidelines I have created document which can guide developers.

Reacting to Bad Query Plans Programmatically

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:26:05 GMT

This article covers how to deal with misbehaving queries through SQL alerts.

Not doing TDD is worst than doing it wrong in the beggining.

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:16:02 GMT

Check this out, and make a learn from it.