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Jul 2 Thu
Code for Scrolling Large Images on Windows Mobile Devices
Maarten Struys writes "...I needed a simple solution to scroll a large picture inside a managed application....This is the complete code for this simple example"
How to Remove Disabled Virtual Network Adapters From the Parent Partition
John Howard writes "To date, I haven’t come across a script which removes disabled virtual NICs in the parent partition. So here is one such example...Obviously with any script which does destructive things, I urge caution and that you make careful note of your configuration..."
Jul 1 Wed
Code Sample of Binary Http Binding
Nicholas Allen writes "...all you need is a custom binding because we don’t include a standard binding with that configuration out of the box. Here’s a quick example of putting binary and HTTP together with either code or configuration:.."
SQL Auto-Shrink Should Be Off
Buck Woody writes "...shrinking a database can cause your Indexes to be fragmented, especially if it happens a lot. I never shrink my databases unless I have a huge deletion of data, and I know that the data won't come back. That's a pretty rare event, and when it does happen..."
Jun 30 Tue
Code for Maintaining State in Reporting Services 2008
Teo Lachev writes "Since Reporting Services is not Excel, you cannot reference arbitrary fields on a report. So, I had to cache the values from the detail section in a hashtable using custom code so the summary section could obtain these values when needed. The following embedded code gets the job done:"
Designing View Models With MVC
Joe Ocampo writes "For our application, the ViewModel is a central aspect of our MVC architecture. One of the first dilemmas facing MVC developers is to decide what the “M” in MVC means in ASP.NET MVC. In Rails, this is fairly clear, the M is ActiveRecord (by default). But in ASP.NET MVC, the “M” is silent! Its out-of-the-box architecture offers no guidelines nor advice..."
Fix for Project 2007 Delivering Mixed Up Views
Brian Smith writes "...we have a fix in the pipeline which should see the light of day in the August CU, but to help just in case others come across this we thought it worth getting this information out there (Thanks Rob). First some details, and then the suggested workaround. The problem and fix is for Project Professional 2007, but only in an Enterprise environment..."
How to Check for a 4.0 Framework Install
Nicholas Allen writes "Checking for the presence of the installation registry value is still a straightforward way of doing this reliably. A slight complication is that in 4.0 there has been a split into the full and client framework profiles...The registry keys for the client and full profiles are:"
References on SharePoint with SQL DB Mirroring and Failover
Simon Seagrave writes "Here’s a collection of good SharePoint SQL database mirroring links and articles I have found to be useful specifically around the area of failing over MOSS..."
Jun 29 Mon
Azure Worker Role Development Tips
Jamie Thomson writes "I’ve been doing a lot of messing around with Windows Azure the main focus of which has been exploring Azure storage (tables, queues, blobs) and how those things can be manipulated from Azure worker roles...Since then I’ve found some blog resources that would have been useful during development had I found them earlier so I’m linking to them from here..."
How to Virtualize Windows Essential Business Server
Ben Armstrong writes "...a document that outlines approaches and best practices for running Windows Essential Business Server in a virtual machine. You can grab it here:"
How to do Unit Testing with .NET RIA Services
Brad Abrams writes "...a very good overview of how to do Unit Testing with .NET RIA Services. I think this is an important benefit of adopting the RIA Services pattern. Check it out..."
Jun 26 Fri
Re-Creating the Forefront Security for Exchange Scheduled Tasks
Sean Daniel writes "If you’re using Forefront Security for Exchange with Small Business Server 2008, and you somehow managed to erase all of the scheduled tasks, you may also notice that Forefront never updates itself automatically, this is because the scheduled tasks kick off the updates. Before you do anything..."
Implementing .NET Framework New Type System.Tuple
Tom Kirby Green writes "...took at stab at implementing our own managed Tuple implementation it was interesting to read the musings of the pro's who've just implemented the 'official' version in .NET 4...the stuff on partial equivalence is particularly interesting..."
Jun 25 Thu
SQL Autoclose in PowerShell Code Sample
Richard Siddaway writes "...I’m doing a lot with SQL Server and PowerShell at the moment and it started me thinking that I could easily set this property in PowerShell. Create a server object and display the databases, selecting name and the autoclose property. Its boolean so we get true or false back. We can iterate..."
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