(Kazi Manzur Rashid) For the last few days, I have been trying to get my hands dirty with the new ASP.NET MVC framework. I saw many discussions on some of the advanced topics like IoC Container/DI, View Engine, Controller factory and so on, but I could not find a simple application to harness the po
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Property Search
(Neil Knobbe) I was taking a look at working with a WPF application the other day when I found, what I thought, was a really neat feature of Visual Studio 2008.
Sharding and Time Base Partitioning
(Peter Zaitsev) For large number of online applications once you implemented proper sharding you can consider your scaling problems solved – by getting more and more hardware you can grow. As I recently wrote it however does not mean it is the most optimal way by itself to do things.
Exploring Secrets of .NET Diagnostics
(Michael Sorens) Diagnostics, also known as “program tracing,” is a crucial—and often overlooked and underappreciated—component of application development. I have long been an ardent believer in diagnostic support, and have written diagnostic systems from scratch for a diverse assortment of software
.NET Tip: Basic Data Manipulation with LINQ
(Jay Miller) LINQ provides a flexible means to work with your data that wasn’t available before. You now have access to SQL-like capabilites that you can apply to your own data types or to built-in data types. In this tip, you will learn how to sort your data and how to reshape the data that your LI
10 reasons to explicitly convert SQL Server data types
(Susan Harkins) SQL Server converts data types in two ways — the way it wants to and the way you tell it to. Most implicit conversions work the way you expect. It’s the surprise conversions that cause trouble. Unless you know exactly how SQL Server converts a data type, I recommend that you explicit
Dimension Attributes: Introduction and Overview, Part I
(William Pearson) In this, the third of several articles focusing upon dimensional model component structures as they are implemented within Analysis Services 2005, we will introduce attributes, another key component. Our examination will include: –An introduction to dimension attributes from a
Inside The Storage Engine: sp_AllocationMetadata – putting undocumented system catalog views to work
(Paul S. Randal) It’s been a long few days of building slide decks and other content and I just had to stop for a bit and take care of my internals-hacking withdrawal symptoms!
Monitoring and Recording DDL changes in SQL SERVER 2005
(Lalit Sharma) While executing the IT project of any significant size, auditing any structural change during the course of project is important. Project manager handling the team size varying from 5 developer to 50 developer cannot do all the activities. Another challenge is that client does not agr
Oracle BI EE 10.1.3.3/2 – Integrating Scheduler/Delivers into Other Applications
(Venkatakrishnan J) Let’s look at an important utility today that would enable Application developers to integrate BI Scheduler/Delivers into their application. That utility is called as SASchinvoke.exe. This enables end users to call/run ibots programmatically from any application(You dont have to