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Using a SQL Prompt snippet with template parameters
As part of my product management role I regularly attend trade shows and man the Red Gate booth in the vendor exhibition hall. Amongst other things this involves giving product demos to customers. Our...
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Old School Wizardry Tip: Batch File Comments
Johnny, the Endangered Keyboard-Driven Windows User Some of my proudest, obscure Windows tricks are losing their relevance. I know I’m not alone. Keyboard shortcuts are going the way of the dodo. I...
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APress Deal of the Day - 13/Apr/2012 - Pro WPF and Silverlight MVVM
The APress $10 deal of the day for today is "Applied WPF 4 in Context" (http://www.apress.com/9781430234708) starts with a simple introduction to WPF and then shows a complete WPF application from...
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Microsoft Press Deal of the Day - 13/April/2012 - Building Enterprise...
Today's deal of the day from Microsoft Press at http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0790145309686.do is Building Enterprise Applications with Windows® Presentation Foundation and the MVVM Pattern"Simplify...
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Stuxnet - how it infects
Except from the CNET article.http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-57413329-52/stuxnet-delivered-to-iranian-nuclear-plant-on-thumb-drive/?part=propeller&subj=news&tag=linkvThe Stuxnet worm...
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SSIS Debugging Tip: Using Data Viewers
When you have an SSIS package error, it is often very helpful to see the data records that are causing the problem. After all, if your input has 50,000 records and 1 of them has corrupt data, it can...
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Love and Hate Outlook autocomplete, Outlook 2010/Exchange 2010
I think that almost every Exchange admin can concur with me that the Outlook autocomplete cache is one of those things you love but at the same time also hate. Users mostly love this function, except...
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TechEd 2012 Closing Party at Universal’s Island of Adventure
Awesome news! The TechEd 2012 Closing Party is at Universal’s Island of Adventure theme park this year. The party is on Thursday, which give you a reason not to leave the conference early and...
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ORA-00900 Super Easy Fix (for some cases)
Here is a really easy fix for some ORA-00900 errors. Well at least the one I saw the other day. This was something that I did not come across when searching either. I found lots of other ideas on what...
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Open and close quotes
Was troubleshooting issues today where our open and close quotes weren’t showing up correctly and found that it was because we were using the wrong character codes. We were using “ but should...
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Think before you animate
Animations are becoming more and more common in our applications. With technologies like WPF, Silverlight and jQuery, animations are becoming easier for developers to use (and abuse). When used...
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Translate jQuery UI Datepicker format to .Net Date format
I needed to use the same date format in client jQuery UI Datepicker and server ASP.NET code. The actual format can be different for different localization cultures.I decided to translate Datepicker...
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Visual Studio 10 crashed when tried to open one of solutions
Visual Studio 10 crashed when I tried to open one of my solutions. Closing Visual Studio and rebooting the machine didn’t help.The error message that was logged(see below), didn’t give any useful...
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Do not expose enum in WCF response
We had a backward compatibility problem in WCF client, when in Service application a new value was added to one of enums. We discussed different ways to avoid this backward compatibility issues, and I...
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Membership Provider Parte 1
Asp.net ha sido una de las tecnologías creadas por Microsoft de mas rápido crecimiento por la facilidad para los desarrolladores de crear sitios web. Una de las partes de mayor importancia que tiene...
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Specify Linq To SQL ConnectionString explicitly
When modifying Linq to Sql data model in Visual Studio 2010, it re-assigns ConnectionString that is available on developer’s machine. Because the name can be different on different machines, Designer...
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Disable messages “Login failed for user” in Event log
I’ve noticed multiple messages in EventLog on my machineLogin failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON'. Reason: Token-based server access validation failed with an infrastructure error. Check for...
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Dump an arbitrary object To Html String
For debugging purposes me and my collegue wanted to dump details of the arbitrary object, and created function that uses LINQPad Dump functionality (thanks to http://stackoverflow.com/a/6035014/52277...
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Weekly Cloud Roundup 2012-15
Filtering the informative, insightful and quirky from the fire hose of cloud-based hype. Irving Wladawsky-Berger provides some great insight into The Complex Transition to the Cloud, sharing his views...
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F10 not working in WPF
At least seemingly.Lately I stumbled across strange WPF behavior. I wanted to catch F10 keydown event. As it turned out it is not so obvious task. Read more in article
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