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Dynamics AX 2009 - X++ Thread Development Examples

Brandon George — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:26:56 GMT

Brandon George writes, "...For examples I tried to do a multi-tree thread approach. Meaning I tried to spawn sets of threads in threads. This is not possible. For whatever reason, the first thread in the threaded, thread approach will execute, after that the other spwaned threads are stopped..." more

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:26:56 GMT

Syntax to Capture a Memory Dump Using Adplus 'hang' Dump

Steve Schofield — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:59:13 GMT

Steve Schofield writes, "...Here is the syntax to capture a memory dump using adplus (part of the debugging tools)...I've used this since IIS DebugDiag doesn't work on 64 bit of windows server 2008..." more

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:59:13 GMT

Code Copying Properties Between 2 Different Types

Shawn Cicoria — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:56:08 GMT

Shawn Cicoria writes, "...Here’s a little method that copies all the R/W properties (public) between 2 distinct class definitions: It’s called as follows..." more

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:56:08 GMT

Create Outlook Appointments from PowerShell

Buck Woody — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:14:50 GMT

Buck Woody writes, "...I've been toying around with a script to create a special set of calendar objects in Outlook that show when my SQL Server Agent Jobs are scheduled to run. I haven't finished yet, but I thought I would share the part that creates the Outlook Appointments...If you plan to play with this script, do it on an..." more

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:14:50 GMT

Test Drive Development TDD Constructive Criticisms

Brian Harry — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:13:34 GMT

Brian Harry writes, "...I’m not saying that it isn’t possible to build a good architecture following TDD. I’m saying that lots of people are already inclined toward piecemeal architecture and I believe literal TDD enables these natural tendencies too much...I like many of the goals of TDD but I don’t like some of the mechanism to get there..." more

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:13:34 GMT

Understanding the TCP Sequence of Steps for Socket Closing

Jane Lewis — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:27:13 GMT

Jane Lewis writes, "...So what do the “State” actually mean. And what is the significance of Close_Wait...As the TCP conversation is a ports and sockets sequence, to understand how to troubleshoot it and carry out root cause analysis...the explanation for a close_wait situation is..." more

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:27:13 GMT

Sample Ad-Hoc String Concatenation Using LINQ

Eric White — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:56:27 GMT

Eric White writes, "When writing example code or tools, I use the StringConcatenation extension method...I keep this method in the PtUtil.cs module...But when I’m writing an ad-hoc query, sometimes it’s not worth the effort to put that source file in my project...When I don’t need to interject a new line between each string, I use the Aggregate extension method as follows..." more

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:56:27 GMT

FluentPath: a Fluent Wrapper Around System.IO

Bertrand Le Roy — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:53:08 GMT

Bertrand Le Roy writes, "...Knowing all that, every time I need to use the stuff in System.IO, I cringe. So I thought I’d just build a more modern wrapper around it...here’s an example of what you can do with the new API...I’m using a Media Center extension that wants all video files to be in their own folder...Here’s the code for it:.." more

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:53:08 GMT

TechEd 2010 Birds-of-a-Feather Call for Proposals

Jeff Bramwell — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:33:12 GMT

Jeff Bramwell writes, "The Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) volunteer organizing team is now accepting proposals from discussion leaders for BOF sessions at Tech-Ed 2010 in New Orleans June 7-10...To submit a proposal visit...The deadline for proposal is Monday, April 5th...." more

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:33:12 GMT

Windows 7 Does a Good Job Limiting Malware Infection

Kerry Brown — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:22:07 GMT

Kerry Brown writes, "...The latest version is extremely hard to remove from XP. If Windows is running it’s near impossible. The malware gets into the system files and doesn’t let other programs run. I have to remove the hard drive and scan it with another computer. Then I re-install the hard drive...Windows 7 with the default security settings did a great job of limiting the infection and making it easy to remove." more

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:22:07 GMT

PowerPack for Remote File Explorer in PowerGUI

Dmitry Sotnikov — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:17:55 GMT

Dmitry Sotnikov writes, "...a PowerPack which lets you browse file system of a remote computer and download files from it...This is based on PowerShell 2.0 remoting...Download the Remote File Explorer PowerPack or read more..." more

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:17:55 GMT

Code to Verify Installation of a Custom Device Using C#

Asaf Shelly — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:15:09 GMT

Asaf Shelly writes, "...Using my WinUSB C# component, I also needed to automatically install the driver if it is not already installed. The INF file defines a new device class by its GUID. This means that the class does not exist on the machine if the device is not installed. Here is the code:..." more

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:15:09 GMT

VS 2008 Add-in Debugs for XNA Game Studio Content Pipeline Extensions

Aaron Stebner — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:35:53 GMT

Aaron Stebner writes, "...a Visual Studio 2008 add-in that allows you to debug an XNA Game Studio content pipeline extension from within Visual Studio 2008 as you are developing it...Here are links with some additional information..." more

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:35:53 GMT

Tips on Product Transitions from VS 2008 to VS 2010 for Load Testing

Ed Glas — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:39:28 GMT

Ed Glas writes, "...If you licensed VS Team System Test Edition 2008 or Suite 2008 under SA, you can transition your license to VS Ultimate 2010 under the SA agreement. Similarly, if you purchased load agent licenses under SA we will also provide a transition from Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Load Agent to..." more

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:39:28 GMT

How to Configure Domain Controller Usage in Exchange 2007 CCR Geo-Clusters

Jeff Guillet — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:59:02 GMT

Jeff Guillet writes, "...Exchange 2007 Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) can be configured to span different geographic sites. These are sometimes called "stretch" or "geographically dispersed" clusters. In Windows Server 2003, special networking configurations need to be made to stretch a single subnet across the two geographically dispersed locations. This is made much easier using Windows 2008..." more

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:59:02 GMT

.NET Framework 4 Installation Failure

Jeff Bramwell — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:53:43 GMT

Jeff Bramwell writes, "If you attempt to install the .NET Framework 4 (RC – not sure yet if this will be an issue at RTM) or Visual Studio 2010/Team Foundation Server 2010 RC (which will install the .NET Framework 4 as a dependency) and the Windows Update service is not running, the install will fail. When installing Team Foundation Server 2010 without the Windows Update service running, then you may see a dialog like this one..." more

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:53:43 GMT

Code to Test Difference in ASP.NET Cache, Application and Sessions

Albert Pascual — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:47:05 GMT

Albert Pascual writes, "where is the best place to store user information, the application variable, the session state, cookies, database or the cache objects?...code below to test for yourself how Session, Application and Cache variables work..." more

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:47:05 GMT

Code for Transforming WordprocessingML to Simpler XML for Easier Processing

Eric White — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:35:22 GMT

Eric White writes, "...The following is a complete listing of the transform that produces the simpler XML shown at the beginning of this post. You can see that it doesn't take much code to do the transform – less than 90 lines of code for the entire example, and only 31 lines of code for the transform function. This example can be found in..." more

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:35:22 GMT

List of New Commands in SOS for .NET 4.0

Tess Ferrandez — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:09:39 GMT

Tess Ferrandez writes, "To find a list of all the commands sos has to offer you can run !help in windbg (if sos is the last extension that was loaded) and to get help (including examples) for a specific command you can run !help , for example..." more

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:09:39 GMT

Image Resizer Powertoy Clone for Windows 7 - Server 2008 R2

Jeff Guillet — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:05:00 GMT

Jeff Guillet writes, "One thing lacking in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is a native picture resizing tool. I find this surprising since Windows 7 is chock full of image and video eye-candy...easy to install image resizer for all versions of Windows available on Codeplex.com. The tool is available in both 32-bit and 64-bit version...[download]" more

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:05:00 GMT