(Suprotim Agarwal) The jQuery UI Tab Widget organizes content by breaking it into multiple panels, each having a header and content. We will start by seeing the default functionality of the Tab widget and then see some examples of how we can configure the Tab Widget to suit our needs.
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Configure Grunt in Visual Studio 2015
(Steve Smith) You can easily configure Grunt to perform client-side build tasks in Visual Studio 2015. Grunt is very similar to Gulp, and either one can be used with Visual Studio 2015 to perform a variety of tasks.
An introduction to the ASP.NET 5 Generic OAuth Provider
(Jerrie Pelser) Over the past 2 years I have been involved in the OWin Authentication Providers project, which enables developers to allow users of their ASP.NET applications to sign in with a wide range of services such as GitHub, LinkedIn, Yahoo and others.
Add Data Annotations to Entity Framework Models with Metadata or Buddy Classes
(Oscar Garcia) When using code generation (ORM), the model classes are automatically created by the tools. We usually try to edit the class and add annotations such as field requirements, formatting and messages.
What’s New in C# 6.0: Dictionary Initializers
(Peter Vogel) I recently did a column about how to create a simple collection class. In that column, I discussed collection initializers which let you add items to a collection when the collection is instantiated. Here’s a variation on the example I used in that column which loads two Customer objec
Getting Ready for Big Data: Prepping the Data Warehouse
(Lockwood Lyon) Using advanced analytics to analyze business data is common, especially in large companies with many customer-facing systems. As more and more data is made available the enterprise stages large data stores into the enterprise data warehouse.
Minimizing the Processing Cost of DB2 Traces
(Troy L Coleman) In a recent blog post, Denis Tronin discussed DB2 for z/OS performance monitoring.
Non Parallelizable operations in SQL Server
Simon Sabin) Anyone working on SQL Server will have banged their head against a wall at one point or another trying to figure why a query hitting millions of rows isn’t being done in parallel.
How to query Included columns and more index metadata
(Dennes Torres) I’m from the age when sp_help and it’s variants could give to us almost any information about the database objects.
Geek City: Point in Time Recovery for Operations on Memory—Optimized Tables
(Kalen Delaney) In my class in Budapest last week, someone asked if point-in-time recovery was supported for transactions on memory-optimized tables. I couldn’t think of a reason why not, but I had never tried it. And just because there is not a technical inhibitor to allow certain functionality, i