(KeithMayer) There’s lots of tools that can be leveraged for automating Linux workloads on Microsoft Azure, including Azure Automation, PowerShell DSC for Linux, VM Agent Custom Scripts, Cloud-Init, XPlat CLI for Azure, Vagrant, Docker and third-party tools such as Chef and Puppet.
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Showing Images Using XML in MVC 4
The following procedure can be used to create a sample of showing images using XML in MVC 4.
Parsing HTML the Easy Way
(Peter Shaw) We all know the scenario: The boss has come downstairs and asked you to process some data for him. Sure you say, it’s no problem. Email me a copy of the data, and I’ll do what I need to then email you the results back.
Event accessors and Lock statements in C#
(Krishna Vamshi Goud) C# is an Object-oriented programming language. C# comes with simplicity, expressiveness and great performance to meet the programmer productivity.
IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Beyond the Basics
(Karen Orlando, Robin Badart, Andy Benbenek, Tiberiu Hajas, Dave Remkus and Christian Sonder) You have installed and performed the basic customization of IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center. You have collected performance data and generated reports. Now it’s time to learn the best ways to use the
Mixing $http Promises and $q Promises for cached Data
(Rick Strahl) If you use $http Promises in your Angular services you may find that from time to time you need to return some data conditionally either based on an HTTP call, or from data that is cached.
Have We Devalued SQL Server Consulting?
(Chris Bell) SQL Server has an amazing community. It freely provides information and training of SQL Server technologies via the internet and even in person events like SQL Saturday’s.
Fast Track Data Warehouse Reference Architecture for SQL Server 2014
(James Serra) I have previously blogged about the Fast Track Data Warehouse, a reference configuration optimized for data warehousing (see Microsoft SQL Server Reference Architecture and Appliances). That was version 3.0 of the reference configuration that was for SQL Server 2008 R2.
How to change the schema of a table
(Derik Hammer) The other day I set out to performance tune a database deployment. The company was getting ready to implement almost a year’s worth of database schema drift where major restructuring had occurred. One of the first things that I noticed was that they were moving a number of tables into
A First WPF Application for WinForms Developers: (3) Border, StackPanel and TextBlock
(Ged Mead) In this series of posts, I’m building a Word Finder application in WPF. As I work through it, I will highlight things you need to know as a Windows Forms developer. In Part 1, I introduced the WPF Window and Grid and in Part 2 I created a WrapPanel, added Buttons and created a simple St