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Using Recursive SQL and XML trick to PIVOT(OK, concat) a "Document Folder...
I'm in the process of building out a Data Warehouse and encountered this issue along the way.In the environment, there is a table that stores all the folders with the individual level. For example, if...
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Top 4 Lame Tech Blogging Posts
From a consumption point of view, tech blogging is a great resource for one-off articles on niche subjects. If you spend any time reading tech blogs, you may find yourself running into several common,...
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Talking about TUO
I’ll be presenting with Matt Briggs, TUO programme manger, at the Microsoft Worldwide Government Solutions Forum on the 25th April.We will be providing an overview of Tell Us One and the journey of how...
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Database Development and Source Control
I have been working with Database Development and the aspects that come with it, the pain and the joy of moving from Dev to QA and then on to Production. Source Control has a place in Dev, and that is...
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Microsoft Press Deal of the Day - 5/April/2012 - Windows® Internals, Part 1,...
Today's Deal of the day from Microsoft Press at http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0790145305930.do is Windows® Internals, Part 1, Sixth Edition."Delve inside Windows architecture and internals—guided by...
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The latest IE6 usage
At http://www.ie6countdown.com/#list there is a list IE6 usage4 by country.The following countries have now reached the 1% or lower IE6 usage.Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic. Denmark, Finland, Mexico,...
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New DataCenter Options for Windows Azure
Effective immediately, new compute and storage resource options are now available when selecting data center options in the Windows Azure Portal. "West US" and "East US" options are now available, for...
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Kansas City will be getting a Microsoft Store
I have to admit, I am pretty excited about this. I am not sure about the dates, but the Oak Park Mall in Overland Park, KS will be getting a Microsoft Store very soon based on this article. I am...
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VS 11 Beta merge tool is awesome, except for resovling conflicts
If you've downloaded the new VS 11 Beta and done any merging, then you've probably seen the new diff and merge tools built into VS 11. They are awesome, and by far a vast improvement over the ones...
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Configuration Data in a Custom Timer job in Sharepoint 2010 : The...
I was planning for a custom timer job for which i wanted to store some configuration data. Was looking for some best practices, found a useful links on The Hierarchical Object store Store...
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Moving, moving, moving.
I'm moving my blog content to GeeksWithBlogs.com who have graciously accepted my application to host here. Over a period of time I'll be putting up my older posts from original sources to here (after...
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Using ConcurrentQueue for thread-safe Performance Bookkeeping.
Just a small tidbit that's sprung up today. I had to book-keep and emit diagnostics for the average thread performance in a highly-threaded code over a period of last X number of calls and no more....
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What’s ‘default’ for?
Sometimes there's a need to communicate explicitly that value variable is yet to be "initialized" or in other words - we’ve never changed it from its' default value. Perhaps "initialized" is not the...
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Adding JavaScript to your code dependent upon conditions
You might be in an environment where you code is source controlled and where you might have build options to different environments. I recently encountered this where the same code, built on...
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APress Deal of the Day - 6/April/2010 - Beginning Windows Phone 7 Development
Today's $10 Deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/9781430235965 is Beginning Windows Phone 7 Development"Starting with the basics, you'll master everything you need to produce...
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Kinect Hacking at Microsoft Developer Days 2012 Bulgaria
Last week I had a pleasure to speak at the Microsoft’s Developer Days 2012 in Sophia, Bulgaria. It was a great conference and I met lots of cool people there. I did a session about Kinect Hacking. My...
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How to work around a possible XNA Game Studio or Windows Phone SDK install...
I am not sure if you guys know Aaron Stebner. Aaron works at Microsoft, and has pulled thorns from my side many many times already. His blog is at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner and it is a gold mine...
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Driven2Distraction – New South African Developer Podcast
For those out there that are interested… I am now one of the hosts of the Driven2Distraction podcast. Being a fan of podcasts like .Net Rocks and Hanselminutes for years now, I have always wanted to...
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Biztalk :Tagidentifier for optional records
I am sure many of us must have faced this issue.Problem:My flat file schema has an optional record and marked with a tagidentifier. we would think that the input message without that optional record...
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Fixing the #mvvmlight code snippets in Visual Studio 11
If you installed the latest MVVM Light version for Windows 8, you may encounter an issue where code snippets are not displayed correctly in the Intellisense popup. I am working on a fix, but for now...
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