Every new project brings its own challenges and pitfalls. New projects also give you a chance to be creative in finding solutions, and try new things. This keeps it interesting, and allows you to learn new things. And sometimes, the things you avoided for all these years, turn out to be your best op
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Do not trust vmstat IOwait numbers
(Peter Zaitsev) I’ve been running a benchmark today on my old test box with conventional hard drives (no raid with BBU) and noticed something unusual in the CPU utilization statistics being reported.
MVC 5 with EF 6 in Visual Basic – Code First Migrations and Deployment
(Mike Brind) This tutorial is the fifth in a series of 12 that teach you how to build MVC 5 applications using Entity Framework for data access and Visual Basic. This tutorial covers how to enable Code First Migrations and then deploy your database to Windows Azure.
Looking At $compile() And MaxPriority In AngularJS
(Ben Nadel) The other day, I was looking through the AngularJS documentation for funzies (thug-life!) and I happened to notice that the $compile() service took some optional arguments, one of which was called “maxPriority”.
SharePoint 2013 CAML Query for Item ID with JQuery
(S P) In this article we will look into how to get items from a list based on the value of “ID”.
HTML5 Now
Dilip reminds us that the Single Page Application is not the invention of HTML5. Rather, HTML5 enables single page applications to be created much more easily. I worked on a project 13 years ago using Classic ASP; not ASP.Net. This application had a series of properties that were hierarchical in nature allowing the user to drill into more detail. At […]
Developing Report Models – (Part 1)
Developing Report Models – (Part 1) Author: Basit A. Farooq A report model is a metadata description of a data source. It contains a business model of a data, a physical model of the underlying database, and a mapping between the two. The business model, also known as a semantic model, describes the data by using familiar business names, usually...
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Copying duplicate files with SQL FIleTables
(John Pertell) I was going to write about security on FileTables in SQL but I thought I’d write a quick post about creating duplicate files first. This topic came up as part of a general discussion I was having recently on general FileTable usage.
WPF Base Classes – ToggleButton
(Richard Carr) The seventy-fifth part of the Windows Presentation Foundation Fundamentals tutorial describes the base class for the CheckBox and RadioButton controls. ToggleButton includes the functionality required to identify the state of these toggleable controls.
Category and Sub Category in single Drop Down List (DDL) in MVC
(Abhimanyu Kumar Vatsa) In this article you will learn how to create a Drop Down List in MVC that can display States and its associated Districts in a single Drop Down List. You will learn this step by step.