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Adding one file to multiple projects in a .Net solution

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:03:59 GMT

There are times when you want to have one .cs or any other file in multiple projects. This is how you do it.

SQL Server 2008 Extended Events - high performance eventing system

Fri, 29 May 2009 14:16:39 GMT

Extended Events are the new low level, high performance eventing system in SQL Server. They use less system resources and provide better tracking of SQL Server performance than previous methods like Perfmon and SQL Trace/Profiler events.

Free SQL Server 2008 Powerpoint dark template

Thu, 07 May 2009 19:25:59 GMT

Just what the title says.

Comparing SQL Server HASHBYTES function and .Net hashing

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:44:01 GMT

Hashing comparison in .Net and SQL Server and things you have to be careful about.

SQL Server - Find missing and unused indexes

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:46:42 GMT

How to find SQL Server indexes that should exists and those that shouldn't when performing index maintenance.

SQL Server Reporting Services licensing

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:03:09 GMT

Links to good licensing documents from Microsoft.

SSMS Tools Pack 1.5 is out with Window Connection Coloring

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:46:02 GMT

This new version of this popular SSMS add-in brings Window Connection Coloring feature and a few improved old features.

The day Google "died" and I used Live search for an hour

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:41:10 GMT

On Saturday 31st January 2009 at around 14:40 UTC something "historical" happened. Google stopped working for an hour. Every single search result was marked with "This site may harm your computer" and it redirected you to a warning site.

A Guide to Learning ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 1

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:46:04 GMT

Now that the ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate is available for download, how do you learn how to start using it to build applications? Here's Stephen Walther's guide to resources for learning about ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 1.

Building a Nant Script -- Part 1: Setting up the script

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:01:03 GMT

Learn how to setup your build script with Nant. You will learn the basics of using Nant to compile your application in this episode, which will be built upon in future episodes to build a more complex script.

Desktop Virtualization

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:42:11 GMT

The benefits of using desktop virtualization for a developer are quite compelling.

The simplest way to delete dupes and compare two result sets in SQL

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:52:33 GMT

The simplest and probably the fastest way to check for duplicates and compare 2 resultsets in SQL Server.

Introducing a new large scale ASP.NET MVC project framework: Unifico

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:31:06 GMT

Written in C# against MVC Beta and ASP.NET 3.5.1 the code currently recreates the account 'component' of the MVC example template with a simple SQL Repository. The ASP.NET Membership Provider is completely replaced with a component written against the Unifico Framework's pattern. In this example several things are achieved: * A Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) ready to be remoted through Windows Communication Foundation while using StructureMap to provide dependency injection from WCF. * A repository based data source also protected with dependency injection that is exposed through in a pipes and filters manor. LINQ to SQL is used within a particular repository implementation, but is in no way exposed to the service. * A Model View Controller (MVC) pattern is also used. The only objects returned from a service are models, and all controller activity is within the service itself. Virtual Paths are used to store the views within the component's assembly. * Utility methods have been developed to provide paging across the service interfaces while leaving the 'control' in the hands of the service. The paging methods support multiple filters and multiple sorts within any paging method for a general service. * The framework supports unit testing, however unit tests need to be added specifically for the account service. A project has been setup to show where this is done. * 'Form' Models are used for requests to a service to allow all validation for a request to occur within the service. The responsibility of form validation is retained within a service in this manor, and prevents outside code from creating models.

SSMS 2008 suggests missing indexes with actual execution plan

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:10:55 GMT

When you choose to Include the Actual Execution Plan in SSMS 2008 it suggest any missing indexes it thinks that are needed. Plus it also calculates the performance benefit from adding them. Pretty awsome!

Debugging With Tracepoints

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:31:04 GMT

Well, last week, while I saw John Cunninghams session at PDC 2008 about Visual Studio Debugger Tips & Tricks, I learned something new about breakpoints. The Visual Studio debugger has another feature called tracepoints.

What is Microsoft waiting for providing a decent path API?

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:31:13 GMT

I was recently browsing the code source of Managed Extensibility Framework and realized that this future part of .NET 4, full of tricky and advanced ideas, was naively relying on strings to describe files and directories paths. It seems that the version 4 of .NET will miss the need for a descent path API. There is the class System.IO.Path but it is feature limited, full of flaws and pitfalls (to not say bugs) and it fosters users to encode their paths into raw strings. It seems to me that using strings to encode paths is as primitive as using String.IndexOf("<tag>") to parse some XML.

Compressing JS files as part of your build process

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:16:02 GMT

Ideally, we want to develop using readable JavaScript files (even 3rd party files) and deploy compressed/obfuscated code. Our solution has simply been to apply a post-build task to our project. Here's what we did

Saving DotNetKicks

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:16:03 GMT

Keyvan wrote something about our popular social bookmarking site, DotNetKicks and talked about some spamming problems on DNK and discussed about saving DNK from this situation. A must read post for all DotNetKicks lovers!

Top 100 Blogs for Developers

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:46:02 GMT

Jurgen Appelo outlines 100 blogs developers should be paying attention to.

Advanced SQL Server 2005 Express Job Scheduling

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:29:39 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 21:16:21 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 20:31:13 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

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:12:40 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 23:31:29 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 16:05:42 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.