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Free IIS URL Rewriter 2.0 RTW

Ward Ralston — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:39:04 GMT

Ward Ralston writes, "...URL Rewriter makes Web addresses simple for customers to remember and search engines to find.,,There are now several new scenarios available...URL Rewriter permits Web administrators to easily replace the URLs generated by a Web application in the response HTML with..." more

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:39:04 GMT

Microsoft Readies Open-Source Analytics Framework for Silverlight

Mary Jo Foley — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:31:41 GMT

Mary Jo Foley writes, "...The framework is designed to allow developers to integrate Web analytics into Silverlight applications. It will be able to track out-of-browser and offline applications, as well as support multiple analytics services from various third-party vendors..." more

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:31:41 GMT

Unpatched Vulnerability in IE7

Dan Griffin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:28:05 GMT

Dan Griffin writes, "If you’re running Win 7, you’re okay. If you’re running IE8 on a previous version of Window, you’re okay. Otherwise.." more

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:28:05 GMT

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

If Timestamp is Deprecated, Why do None of the Current db Tools Support Rowversion

Julie Lerman — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:37:24 GMT

Julie Lerman writes, "...If you were to look up the timestamp data type in the SQL Server 2008 documentation, this is waht you will find within the topic article: “The timestamp syntax is deprecated. This feature will be removed in a future version of Microsoft SQL Server...Yet, I care a lot about this because I use timestamp fields in the sample database for..." more

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:37:24 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

ASP.NET Website on the Move Again

Scott Hanselman — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:41:47 GMT

Scott Hanselman writes, "...This is the first of a series of updates to the site we'll be making this year...[here}" more

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:41:47 GMT

Windows Home Server as a Small Business Server

Philip Churchill — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:21:06 GMT

Philip Churchill writes, "...some of the most important features that apply to small business owners. This is a great read for any small/micro business owner..." more

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:21:06 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

VS 2010 Load Tests and a Powerful Solution for Performance Analysis of Java Applications

Ed Glas — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:45:33 GMT

Ed Glas writes, "...The integration is now even deeper with VS 2010. With VS 2010, you can drill straight from a specific slow Web page in a load test to the dynaTrace truePath for that page. The truePath shows the performance breakdown for the page, detailing which tiers of the application were slow for that page. This enables you to jump..." more

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:45:33 GMT

Code to Determine Whether a String is Contained Within a String Array

Scott Mitchell — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:29:20 GMT

Scott Mitchell writes, "...I need to write a bit of code that does one thing if a particular string is found within an array of strings and something else if it is not ignoring differences in case...here it is:..." more

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:29:20 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

First Bit of Information Coming Out On XNA Game Studio 4.0

Aaron Stebner — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:05:10 GMT

Aaron Stebner writes, "...about the upcoming XNA Game Studio 4.0 release and support it will provide for developing games for Windows Phone 7 Series, Xbox 360 and Windows...check out some of the links..." more

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:05:10 GMT

Strengthening Your Domain: Encapsulated Collections

Jimmy Bogard — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:00:55 GMT

Jimmy Bogard writes, "...When I create an Order, the domain model takes care of the relationship between Customer and Order without any additional manipulation. If I publicly expose a collection class, I’m opening the doors for confusion and future bugs as I’ve now allowed my system to tinker with the implementation details of the relationship. It’s my belief..." more

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:00:55 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

Understanding File Configurations on Your Virtual Hyper-V Machine

Ben Armstrong — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:48:16 GMT

Ben Armstrong writes, "...Hyper-V has a concept of the “virtual machine data root” and the “virtual machine snapshot root”. These are the locations where the virtual machine configuration (.XML) and saved state (.BIN & .VSV) files are stored. For example..." more

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:48:16 GMT

Visual Studio Color Settings

Keith Elder — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:38:55 GMT

Keith Elder writes, "Here’s what my environment looks like. I use a dark theme...If you’d like to try this theme out then download the file below. Within Visual Studio go to Tools->Import and Export Settings to import. The changes will be immediate." more

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:38:55 GMT