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Silverlight DataGrid Tip on Keeping Selected Row Fous State

Tim Heuer — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:09:34 GMT

Tim Heuer writes, "The scenario is the classic master-details scenario where perhaps you have a grid of data and when a user selects the row, the details are enabled in a form (or perhaps the child of the element) for editing. Maybe something like this..." more

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:09:34 GMT

Tips on Using Git with Windows

David Mohundro — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:05:42 GMT

David Mohundro writes, "you have two options for running git in Windows – msysgit or cygwin. I’ve used both, but I currently prefer using msysgit, mainly because when I’m on Windows, I want to use Powershell...After the install, you can verify things are set up correctly by pulling up powershell and typing get-command git. If everything was installed correctly, you should see something like this:..." more

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:05:42 GMT

Exchange 2010 Strange Error After Configuring Domain Controller

Peter De Tender — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:03:42 GMT

Peter De Tender writes, "..strange error message comes up whenever I started the Exchange Mgmt Console on my EX2010 server. Even after configuring a "fixed" configuration domain controller (from the EMC/select Server Organization/ on the right hand side "Modify Configuration Domain Controller" option is shown), the error still appeared. No matter what part of the GUI I was going through...After some digging in the profile, I found out the following file, which seemed to be the cause of the problem:.." more

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:03:42 GMT

Code Sample and Instructions WPF 4: Button Controls

Pete Brown — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:58:02 GMT

Pete Brown writes, "...one of the roadblocks folks new to WPF often hit: templating of controls. If you’re used to Windows Forms or even ASP.NET, where purpose-built controls exist for the common scenarios, doing something as simple as creating a flat image button can be somewhat daunting..." more

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:58:02 GMT

Query That Upgrades Configuration Manager Clients

Vitalie Ciobanu — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:17:22 GMT

Vitalie Ciobanu writes, "...Created a package and program with ConfigMgr client upgrade with custom command line parameters. Program command line is...Now, as system resources with older client version are members of this collection they will receive the advertisement and will silently install the latest ConfigMgr client. When the collection will have no system resources..." more

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:17:22 GMT

TechEd 2010 Count Down Gadget

Jeff Guillet — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:29:16 GMT

Jeff Guillet writes, "...Are you going to TechEd 2010 North America? Can't wait to visit New Orleans with all your fellow IT Pros? Well, get your geek on with the TechEd 2010 Count Down Gadget for Windows 7 and Windows Vista!...download the gadget..." more

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:29:16 GMT

Sample Code for Hyper-V ActiveX RDP Control

Ben Armstrong — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:05:44 GMT

Ben Armstrong writes, "...create a Remote Desktop connection directly to the virtual machine (not to the guest operating system) in exactly the same manner as when you are using the Virtual Machine Connection window in the Hyper-V Management Console. As this is an ActiveX control you can even use it in..." more

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:05:44 GMT

Collaboration is Driven by Corporate Culture not Technology

Joris Poelmans — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:02:15 GMT

Joris Poelmans writes, "...With a new web savvy generation entering the work force companies will need to provide the necessary tools and freedom to allow people to work in ways that you probably did not imagine. This will mainly require a shift in management style from command and control to collaborate and connect..." more

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:02:15 GMT

A Primer on DDD or Aggregate Roots

Joe Ocampo — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:54:34 GMT

Joe Ocampo writes, "...One of the most quoted, but most misunderstood ideas in DDD is the concept of aggregate roots...Is it just an entity with a screen in front of it? A row in a database?...I generally think of Aggregate roots as consistency boundaries...Keeping invariants satisfied strengthens the design and responsibility of the objects, as the logic that defines the Aggregate is then self-contained." more

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:54:34 GMT

Fix to Allow an Encoder Fallback with UTF8

Nicholas Allen — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:27:31 GMT

Nicholas Allen writes, "The original code for the WCF text encoder didn't preserve the configured fallback when the character set was UTF8. The UTF8 encoding web name was special cased as part of an optimization. Since the default encoder fallback implementation was an exception fallback, an exception would always be thrown for unconvertible characters regardless of the fallback implementation configured. After installing this fix you're able to customize the fallback..." more

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:27:31 GMT

Why SQL Partition Merge is Slow

SQL Storage Engine Team — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:32:51 GMT

SQL Storage Engine Team writes, "...There is a workaround for this when the partitions to be merged are mapped to the same filegroup. In the example above where the intention is to drop a partition it is clear that the destination partition is always empty. The workaround is to..." more

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:32:51 GMT

When to Use Anti-Pattern or Code Smell

Peter Ritchie — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:30:25 GMT

Peter Ritchie writes, "...I’ve seen the term Anti-Pattern used in a couple of places lately that describe scenarios where patterns are used incorrectly. Each and every pattern has a time and a place (a context). Outside of that context, it is not an anti-pattern. The term Code Smell is much better to describe inappropriate uses of patterns. For example..." more

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:30:25 GMT

How to Create Custom Web Services in Sharepoint 2007

Mostafa Arafa — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:47:45 GMT

Mostafa Arafa writes, "If you want to build your own custom Web services that will be hosted in a sharepoint instance, here is the complete walkthrough that you need to folow:.." more

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:47:45 GMT

Code Sample Viewing Access Table Definitions

Richard Siddaway — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:46:13 GMT

Richard Siddaway writes, "...how do we investigate the structure of the database. The first thing we need to know is the tables in our database...In this case we are using ADO (the older brother of ADO.NET). We need to create a COM object for the connection and open it using the path to our database. This will fail if..." more

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:46:13 GMT

TechEd 2010 Mobile Site Up and Running

Jeff Guillet — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:56:09 GMT

Jeff Guillet writes, "The Microsoft TechEd Team has created a TechEd mobile site designed in three versions to best suit your mobile device...(320 plus pixels)...(240 plus pixels)..." more

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:56:09 GMT

Private Cloud Security is no Security at All

Sam Johnston — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:33:26 GMT

Sam Johnston writes, "...don't take it for granted that private cloud offerings are secure, and in the unlikely event that the systems themselves are secure, don't assume you or your provider can run them in a more secure fashion than a "public" cloud provider could. Incidents like this go a long way towards realising one of my predictions for 2010...in that Private clouds will be discredited by year end..." more

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:33:26 GMT

Silverlight Code to Control the Out-of-Browser Window

Pete Brown — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:25:31 GMT

Pete Brown writes, "If your Silverlight 4 application is running with Elevated Permissions, you can control a fair number of aspects of the hosting out-of-browser window. You can change the size, location, make it top most, set window state and Activate it. Here’s some simple example code:" more

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:25:31 GMT

How to Increase VMBus Buffer Optimizing Network Performance to Guest VMs

Ben Armstrong — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:24:15 GMT

Ben Armstrong writes, "...how to optimize network performance inside of virtual machines by increasing the size of the VMBus buffers used by our network adapters...explaining the causes and implications of performance issues around virtual networking..." more

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:24:15 GMT

How to Install PowerShell within the WHS Console

Philip Churchill — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:18:45 GMT

Philip Churchill writes, "...takes you through installing PowerShell on Windows Home Server and launching the PowerShell command prompt from within the Advanced Admin Console UI..." more

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:18:45 GMT

WCF Fix for Partially Trusted Clients Using Windows Authentication

Nicholas Allen — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:17:39 GMT

Nicholas Allen writes, "...A client with restricted permissions may not be allowed to set the UnsafeAuthenticatedConnectionSharing setting. This causes a security exception to be thrown when the setting is accessed, preventing the request from being made. You're encountering this problem if you see the following exception...." more

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:17:39 GMT