(Ben Nadel) Last week, I talked about loading GitHub Gist content after the DOM (Document Object Model) had loaded. This was a somewhat complex operation since the remote Gist Script tag uses document.write() in order to inject the Gist content into the calling document.
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Processing Documents in Bulk Using SharePoint 2010 and Open XML 2.0
(Bob McClellan) Learn to use the Open XML SDK 2.0 to generate specific documents, SharePoint 2010 to store those documents, Word Automation Services to convert them to XPS files to print, and .NET Framework code to send them to the printer.
SharePoint Designer Workflow Failed on Start (Retrying) issue
(Boris Gomiunik) Recently I’ve stumbled on a strange error in SharePoint. In the entire site collection I couldn’t start any workflow (nobody could). If workflows were set to start automatically, they would fail immediately with the message Failed on Start (Retrying)
Report Subscription in SSRS 2008 R2
(Arshad Ali) SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is a server based scalable and extensible platform for authoring, deploying, executing and managing reports based on a variety of data sources. SSRS allows us to create interactive, tabular, graphical (using data visualization controls) or free from
For SQL Server shops testing Azure cloud, it’s all about integrating data
(Beth Stackpole) Despite all the hoopla around cloud computing, Microsoft’s SQL Azure cloud platform will likely co-exist with on-premises SQL Server installations for some time. The hybrid deployment scenario means integrating data will present challenges to developers, especially since much of the
A Generic Equality Comparer for LINQ
LINQ operators generally use lambda expressions to control their processing and output. Some operators use IEqualityComparer implementations to compare values. This article describes a generic comparer, driven by delegates, designed for use in queries.
Getting Started with Mobile Web Development Using HTML5, jQuery Mobile and ASP.NET MVC 4
(Rachel Appel) Welcome to the first installment of the Web Development Report, a new online column at MSDN Magazine. Each month, current topics and issues in Web application development using technologies such as HTML5, ASP.NET, jQuery, Mobile Web and more will be discussed. The area covered this mo
Incremental Partition Statistics Review
(Randolf Geist) Here is a summary of the findings while evaluating Incremental Partition Statistics that have been introduced in Oracle 11g.
Growing Materialized View (Snapshot) Logs
(Hemant K Chitale) As I had noted about 4 years ago “Large (Growing) Snapshot Logs indicate that you have a problem”, if you have a Fast Refresh Materialized View that hasn’t been refreshed for a considerable period of time, you will find that the Materialized View Log (“Snapshot Log” in earlier ver
ADF Performance Marathon – 22 Hours Stress Test
(Andrejus Baranovskis) My goal was to test how scalable is ADF framework classical stack and if it can run for longer periods of time under constant runtime access. Experiment results – yes, ADF is scalable framework. There are people who complain about ADF performance, please leave your comment if