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Code for Scrolling Large Images on Windows Mobile Devices

Maarten Struys — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:06:27 GMT

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" more

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:06:27 GMT

How to Remove Disabled Virtual Network Adapters From the Parent Partition

John Howard — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:59:59 GMT

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..." more

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:59:59 GMT

Code Sample of Binary Http Binding

Nicholas Allen — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:32:35 GMT

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:.." more

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:32:35 GMT

SQL Auto-Shrink Should Be Off

Buck Woody — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:21:06 GMT

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..." more

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:21:06 GMT

Code for Maintaining State in Reporting Services 2008

Teo Lachev — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:10:38 GMT

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:" more

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:10:38 GMT

Designing View Models With MVC

Joe Ocampo — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:07:02 GMT

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..." more

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:07:02 GMT

Fix for Project 2007 Delivering Mixed Up Views

Brian Smith — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:03:01 GMT

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..." more

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:03:01 GMT

How to Check for a 4.0 Framework Install

Nicholas Allen — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:58:08 GMT

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:" more

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:58:08 GMT

References on SharePoint with SQL DB Mirroring and Failover

Simon Seagrave — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:56:14 GMT

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..." more

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:56:14 GMT

Azure Worker Role Development Tips

Jamie Thomson — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:28:18 GMT

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..." more

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:28:18 GMT

How to Virtualize Windows Essential Business Server

Ben Armstrong — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:10:24 GMT

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:" more

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:10:24 GMT

How to do Unit Testing with .NET RIA Services

Brad Abrams — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:09:04 GMT

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..." more

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:09:04 GMT

Re-Creating the Forefront Security for Exchange Scheduled Tasks

Sean Daniel — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:28:36 GMT

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..." more

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:28:36 GMT

Implementing .NET Framework New Type System.Tuple

Tom Kirby Green — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:27:15 GMT

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..." more

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:27:15 GMT

SQL Autoclose in PowerShell Code Sample

Richard Siddaway — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:04:17 GMT

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..." more

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:04:17 GMT

Silverlight Canvas Panel Example and Code

Deepak Kapoor — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:01:21 GMT

Deepak Kapoor writes, "...Panels are basic layout mechanism in both Silverlight and WPF...This gives us precise control over where our UI elements e.g buttons, text boxes etc. are placed. In this example we can see that different ellipses are placed on the canvas using x and y coordinates..." more

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:01:21 GMT

WPF Now Has Chart Controls

Darryl Schaffer — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:39:42 GMT

Darryl Schaffer writes, "WPF officially has charting controls now...There’s a new release of the WPF Toolkit:" more

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:39:42 GMT

Powershell Tip Working with TRUE and FALSE Comparisons

System Center Forum — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:12:11 GMT

System Center Forum writes, "I posted an updated Powershell script for a client to resolve rule-generated alerts in SCOM 2007, but also to illustrate an example of TRUE and FALSE evaluation in Powershell. The fact is, it’s really about $TRUE and $FALSE. Powershell has a more accurate notion of true / false than one might imagine..." more

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:12:11 GMT

Steps for Running Windows Embedded Standard on Hyper-V

Olivier Bloch — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:53:42 GMT

Olivier Bloch writes, "I am working on some labs and I needed to have a Windows Embedded Standard image running in a Virtual machine on top of Hyper-V. I felt like I would have a hard time doing this but at the end of the day it was really easy! So here are the 3 special steps..." more

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:53:42 GMT

Why Work With ObjectStateEntries Instead of the Objects Directly

Julie Lerman — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:42:46 GMT

Julie Lerman writes, "With the new POCO capabilities, the answer becomes more obvious. POCO objects will have no concept of the Entity Framework. They will not be inheriting from EntityObject or implementing any of EF’s interfaces. These classes will have no way to get at the properties or methods that..." more

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:42:46 GMT