Download: SQL Server system information

serverproperty('Edition') as [SQL server SKU], serverproperty('IsClustered') as [Is SQL server clustered], serverproperty('MachineName') as [Windows server name], serverproperty('InstanceName') as [SQL server instance name],

Download: ADO.NET Entity Framework and .NET 4 & Visual Studio 2010 Modeling Tools – Writing Code And Working with Entities to Add Data

Introduction This post builds upon our previous blog post about the ADO.NET Entity Framework. The goal is to leverage the Visual Studio 2010 modeling tools to write applications with the ADO.NET Entity Framework. We will explore: Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2’s Modeling ToolingWriting code t...

Download: Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework 2010-1-25: brief intro of new samples

Due to the Silverlight security consideration, before Silverlight connecting to socket server, client will first connect to server 943 port to acquire cross domain policy file and determine if access is permitted.  This sample demonstrate how to create a Silverlight accessible sock...

Download: Connecting to remote SQL Server Integration Service from SQL Server management Studio

Cannot connect to <Server_Name>. at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Environment.GetData(Request req, Object ci) at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Enumerator.Process(Object connectionInfo, Request request)

Download: Announcement: Haitian Creole support in Bing Translator and other Microsoft Translator powered services

10) What can we expect next? In the coming days expect to see support for Haitian Creole added to even more of our scenarios (Translation Bot, Translator widget, Office etc) as well as the AJAX API. Known issues and announcements can also be found on our forums.

Getting Started with the ASP.net MVC Framework – Installation and “Hello World”

ScottGu: ASP.NET MVC Framework (Part 0): What is it? ScottGu: ASP.NET MVC Framework (Part 1): Building an MVC Application ScottGu: ASP.NET MVC Framework (Part 2): URL Routing ScottGu: ASP.NET MVC Framework (Part 3): Passing ViewData from Controllers to Views ScottGu: ASP.NET MVC Framewo...

Will Modeling Services Work with My UML Tool?

At the first of the year I started a sweet new gig working on the Modeling Services Repository, focusing on the UML Domain. My nefarious plan (let’s hope I succeed) is to bring the perspective of Big IT to the development Modeling Services features.   As detailed on the UML Domain’s MSDN page,...

Download: Connecting to NAV Web Services from Javascript

Prerequisites Please read this post to get a brief explanation of the scenario I will implement in Javascript. BTW. Basic knowledge about Javascript and XML is required to understand the following post:-) Browser compatibility The sample in this post will work with Internet Explorer. I h...

Download: Extensibility Example: Adding custom namespaces in your code (part 1)

For Visual Studio 2010, we added a number of extensibility points to the Entity Designer. Property Annotations: This let's you add custom annotations to most of the items in your EF model (based on a new feature in the EF Runtime known as Structured Annotations).Model Generation: You can h...

Download: Security Advisory 979352 Posted: Vulnerability in Internet Explorer Could Allow Remote Code Execution

Customers can also set Internet and Local intranet security zone settings to "High" to prompt before running ActiveX Controls and Active Scripting in these zones or configure Internet Explorer to prompt before running Active Scripting or to disable Active Scripting in the Internet a...

Download: MSDN Flash Podcast 019 – Paul Foster discusses Windows Mobile Widgets

Widgets enable developers to build mobile applications using web development skills – HTML, Script and AJAX. Widgets are installed on the device and look like a native application with just enough device integration to use soft keys and interrogate device state…”

Download: Benchmark your BizTalk Server (Part 3)

Change 50 53 62 789 789 How BizTalk Server Implements Throttling What was SQL Server Doing During This Time SQL Server conveniently exposes information about the Buffer Pool through perfmon. From the SQL Server:Buffer Manager perfmon object look at the following counters:

Download: Now available - Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 SP4 Business Essentials Technical Demonstration Toolkit/VHD

Are you looking for a Business Essentials version of the Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 Technical Demonstration Toolkit? We are excited to announce the release of the Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 SP4 and FRx 6.7 SP10 Business Essentials Technical Demonstration Toolkit! This Technical Demons...

Download: Simplifying Open XML WordprocessingML Queries by First Accepting Revisions

static void Main(string[] args) revisions have been accepted. if (para1 != null) Console.WriteLine(para1); Even though the RevisionAccepter class is written using LINQ to XML, this technique works equally well when used with the strongly-typed object model of the Open XML SDK 2.0:

Download: Cumulative Update Package 5 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1

SQL Server 2008 hotfixes that are included in Cumulative Update 5 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 365463 FIX: A memory leak may occur if you use a linked server query to retrieve a sql_variant column from a remote server in SQL Server 2005 or in SQL Server 2008

Download: The Great PHP on Windows Contest

Try your hand at PHP on Windows and win a complete 52" HDTV home entertainment system and the opportunity to present your creation to the crowd at php|tek 2010 in Chicago with an all-expenses paid trip! Have you tried to run PHP on Windows? No? 

Download: F# Interactive Tips and Tricks: Visualizing Data in a Grid

The demos in my F# talks use a number of coding snippets to acquire, generate and display data interactively. Some of these little snippets are not so well known, but they are useful :-) One pattern is displaying tabular data interactively using a DataGrid view. For example, this is used t...

Download: Updated DocumentBuilder to work with Dec09 CTP of Open XML SDK V2

The Dec09 CTP changed the way that you add a custom XML part.  It also changed the way that you query for and add hyperlinks.  Updated DocumentBuilder to use the changed API. Fixed a bug where images were copied one byte too short. There are upcoming tasks for DocumentBuilder, and the PowerTool...

Download: NOW AVAILABLE!! – Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 SP4 Business Essentials Technical Demonstration Toolkit/VHD

Posted 1/7/2010 Are you looking for a Business Essentials version of the Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 Technical Demonstration Toolkit? We are excited to announce the release of the Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 SP4 and FRx 6.7 SP10 Business Essentials Technical Demonstration Toolkit! This T...

Download: Creating PHP CRUD Apps with SQL Server on your Server or in the Azure Cloud

You can use these generated helper php files and forms as the building blocks for the database driven application that you would like to write against SQL Server. As you can see most of the PHP code you need to manipulate data from SQL Server has been taken care for you.

Download: iPhone and Cloud computing

iPhone applications are changing how customers interact with their data, documents, files. IPhone opens new opportunities for businesses to interact with their customers. The iPhone has changed how the mobile phone market is viewed. In this article, you will see how the iPhone is the too...

Download: Things to check when Kerberos authentication fails using IIS/IE…

Version Française When Kerberos authentication fails, it is always a good idea to simplify the configuration to the minimum (one client/one server/one IIS site running on the default port). In addition, some basic troubleshooting steps can be followed like using a test page to confirm...

Download: Government Mapping solution built with Silverlight 3 and Windows Azure + SQL Azure

Partner chose Windows Azure platform simply because the data shown on the maps is for the public, however your solution/application built using their framework can be hosted on your on-premise infrastructure too.  Once you get hold of the framework, you will be pleased that the applica...

Download: RemoteApp and Desktop Connection Feed Extensibility

In our earlier blog post, we introduced RemoteApp and Desktop Connections to enable users to have their RemoteApp and Desktop icons integrated on their Windows 7 start menu.  RemoteApp and Desktop Connections works with this new feature of Remote Desktop Web Access (RD Web Access)--th...

Download: Links for my intervention at Le Podcast High Tech – with Drupal user community Belgium

The Web Platform Installer The Microsoft Web Platform Installer is a tool that provides an installer for developer tools, (IIS) web server extensions, SQL Server database, PHP, and more on a Windows machine. So instead of having to download extensions, SDKs, tools and more from differe...

Download: MFCopy

Create the reader object from either a URL, a byte stream, or an existing media source instance. Select or deselect streams. Configure the desired output format for the streams. Seek to the starting position if desired. Process multimedia data by calling IMFSourceReader::ReadSample unt...

Download: Simple Rules To Stop Bad Guys

To help address this, we have released the Web Application Configuration Auditor (WACA). This is a free download that you can use on your servers to see if they are configured according to best practice. You can download it at this link.

Download: Migrating an Outlook Client to .NET Framework 4 in Visual Studio 2010

Download: Installing and Configuring Master Data Services 2008 R2 November CTP

Click “Web Configuration” in the left pane to configure a new IIS web application for MDS. The MDS web application can be created as its own web site (i.e., root application) or within another web site. For more information about the options on the Web Configuration page, see Web Configuratio...

Download: Windows 7, Server, Azure, Silverlight Tools to Integrate With Eclipse

Windows Azure Software Developer Kit (SDK) for Java Windows Azure Software Developer Kit (SDK) for Java is an open source project that consists of tools and resources to help bridge Java developers to Windows Azure.The Windows Azure SDK for Java is available for download at

Download: Introduction to WPF 4 Multitouch

Mixing and matching approaches: In WPF 4 raw-touch and manipulation are not mutually exclusive –this is different from Win32.  You can enable both raw touch and manipulation at the same time on any UI Element.  

Download: You encounter report server connection failure with below error message. Below is one of the instance which I witnessed while connecting through SSMS, it fails while using the server name (SERVERNAMEABC)

Error: ===== TITLE: Connect to Server ------------------------------ Cannot connect to SERVERNAMEABC. ------------------------------ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The attempt to connect to the report server failed. Check your connection information and that the report server is a c...

Download: PHP on Windows: workaround for a command-line error (MSVCR71.DLL is missing)

I’m currently writing a tutorial on how to install, test and use the PHP symfony framework on Windows Web Server 2008. In order to install it, I start from a raw Windows Server installation, with IIS role not enabled. I download Microsoft Web Platform Installer (WebPI) 2.0 RTM from this link,...

Deep Dive into the WF4 Designer Data Model: ModelItem and ModelProperty

On the left, you see the object itself.  For that object, there will be one ModelItem which “points” to that object.  You can call ModelItem.GetCurrentValue() and that will return the actual object. If you look at the ModelItem type, you will see some interesting properties which describe t...

Download: Enabling Tracing during TFS 2010 Configuration

I’ll repeat this several times in this post – the tracing we are enabling is for the Application Tier configuration tools only.  These steps take place on your Application Tier but in NO WAY do they affect the TFS services performance or behaviors – this includes the web services, build ser...

Download: Report Viewer in Visual Studio 2010

Beta 2 contains several important updates for the ReportViewer, such as using ASP.Net AJAX internally, supporting RDL 2008 features (tablix, rich text, gauge, etc.) in local mode, Word export, and better cross browser support.

Download: Should I have a SNAC with my cumulative update?

The answer is NO because if you install the “main” cumulative update package you get the bits that come in the SNAC package. You may wonder why it matters whether SNAC is updated on the server itself especially if you don’t run any applications on your server that use SNAC. Linked Server Queri...

Download: iPhone and Cloud Computing

Your syndication feed is now live. If you point a browser to this address, you will see an Rss feed published by your service app. Next step is to create a mobile app that will display that feed. iPhoneSeattle.com is a website listing a collection of iPhone application templates and makes it eas...

Download: Two birds, one stone [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 2 and DataVisualizationDemos update]

The October 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit came out on Monday and the Data Visualization assembly includes some nice updates. I discussed the details of the new release then and promised to revise my samples to run on the new bits. While I anticipated doing things separately, it tu...

Download: All-In-One Code Framework Release 2009-10-18: Brief introduction of new samples

·         Events of MediaElement (MarkerReached, MediaEnded, MediaOpened, MediaFailed, CurrentStateChanged) ·         Check if the application is already installed. ·         Direct2D: API for drawing vector graphics. ·         DirectWrite: API for text rendering.

Download: Silverlight Toolkit October

Read the complete list of changes in the Silverlight Toolkit October 2009 release from the July 2009 release. The October 2009 version is the 5th release of the Silverlight Toolkit, and targets Silverlight 3. The Silverlight Toolkit defines four Quality Bands that describe the stabilit...

Download: Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 with F# is now available, plus matching F# CTP Update for VS2008

This release also includes final, relatively modest improvements to the F# Core Library. These include simplifications to F# asynchronous programming. For example, using asynchronous programming with WPF, Silverlight and ASP.NET components is now even easier, as described in the re...

Download: Microsoft Updates Ajax Library Preview

The update includes a new, simplified code syntax for creating client controls, a new client-side script loader that dynamically loads Javascript files, and better jQuery integration. For more information, see Announcing Microsoft Ajax Library (Preview 6) and the Microsoft Ajax Mi...

Download: Microsoft Ajax Library ( Preview 6 ) released

We have just released a significant update of the Microsoft Ajax Library (Preview 6).  This provides a set of new capabilities to the client-side AJAX library, and can be used with any version of ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC projects.  The major new capabilities are:- Better Imperative Syntax: A...

Download: Things to know before developing MS XML applications.

To create a XML DOM object we use code like this “Dim xmlDoc As New Msxml2.DOMDocument30” If you are writing a .net application try to use System.XML instead of MSXML. As using MSXML with .net application is not supported. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290761

Download: BUG: Outlook: Word: A signature to death!

I have been working lately with this customer who was trying to create new signature files under %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Signatures folder which will be used by Outlook 2007 (SP2) but what we discovered is that whenever they try to use it, it used to crash Outlook. This was the content of the H...

Download: .NET Voice Recorder

In this article I demonstrate how to record from the microphone in .NET, with support for setting the recording level, trimming noise from the start and end, visualizing the waveform in WPF and converting to MP3. Mark Heath http://mark-dot-net.blogspot.com/ Code It: Download Run It: Down...

Download: MSDN Flash Podcast Show 010 – Paul Jackson on Memory Mapped Files in .NET Framework 4.0, using Oslo and learning to love the web again thanks to ASP.NET MVC

It is an interview with Paul Jackson which is meant to be about the article he wrote on Memory Mapped Files in .NET Framework 4.0 but tends to go off in different directions – but we both certainly enjoyed doing it :-) I was interested to hear how he was getting on with Oslo and why he was revisitin...

Download: Seen at REMIX: WebsiteSpark and Web Platform Installer 2.0

When you choose to install an application from the Web App Gallery the Web PI will automatically check for any dependencies like the database, certain IIS extensions, and so forth. This applies to ASP.NET applications but also for any PHP open source application that is part of the gallery....

Download: The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 11 – SQL Server Stored Procedures – Repost

Begin by going to Visual Studio’s View menu and selecting Server Explorer. I recommend connecting to the database instance posted within SQL server. Notice the stored procedure appears in the server explorer to the left, highlighted in blue.

Download: The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 8 – The Garbage Collector – GC – Repost

It is not trivial for the garbage collector know if an application is using an object or not. The older an object is, the longer it will survive. Recall that this object referrers to our main form. This may cause your application to the CPU starved and it will perform poorly.

Download: Versioning Protocol of Astoria II

The rule of thumb here is we require the requesting DSV to be 2.0 for all new URI constructs ($inlinecount, $count, $skipToken, $select), and the response DSV will be 2.0 if the content is incompatible with V1 response. For example, for Server Driven Paging, when the server truncates the res...

Download: How to Manage Microsoft StreamInsight with PowerShell

PS C:\> $server | gm                     ---------- ----------                                                  ----- All Events Count                                    19 All Events Memory (bytes)                           249856

Download: Merging Text & Photos into a Word Document using Open XML SDK

Installing the Open XML SDK As I mentioned yesterday, manipulating the package directly with the System.IO.Packaging classes gets a little bit tricky when you have to start adding embedded images and objects and linking them together. Instead, it’s easier to use the Open XML SDK to do this...

A CSS Photo Gallery

Isolation in Maestro

Inspiration from the Web Domains domain D1 object obj = new object(); string str = "Hello!"; Agents domain D1 object obj = new object(); string str = "Hello!"; domain D1 object obj = new object(); string str = "Hello!"; domain D1 object obj = new object(); string str = "Hello!";

Why are thread safe collections so hard?

Writing a collection which is mutable, thread safe and usable is an extremely difficult process.  At least that’s what you’ve likely been told all through your schooling.  But then you get out on the web and see a multitude of thread safe lists, maps and queues.  If it’s so hard, why are there s...

Possible solution for error 25015 with data error (cyclic redundancy check) during .NET Framework 2.0 setup

MSI (s) (A1!B0) [12:34:56:111]: Product: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 -- Error 25015.Failed to install assembly 'C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Microsoft.Visual Basic.dll' because of system error: Data error (cyclic redundancy check).

Traversing in the Open XML DOM

For the past few posts, I have been concentrating on showing you guys solutions to real world scenarios. Today, I am going to change pace a bit and continue Ali's discussion on the basics of the Open XML SDK. In this post I am going to cover the basic techniques of traversing in the Open XML DOM tr...

Playing with JSON

In the end, I did a couple of different Silverlight examples including leveraging the JsonObject and LINQ. Then I ended up doing samples in raw JavaScript, MSAjax, Prototype and JQuery. Finally I ended it all up by mixing JQuery and Silverlight. That was fun and remarkably simple.

Go to MIX09

Current sessions include (see details here): Building an Optimized, Graphics-Intensive Application for Microsoft Silverlight (Seema Ramchandani). Building Data-Driven Scalable AJAX Web Pages Building Microsoft Silverlight Applications with Eclipse (Shawn Wildermuth) C# fo...

Download: HoverNodeStyle not applied with partial postback

The TreeView control has built-in Ajax capabilities when it comes to dynamically fill it nodes; this is done through the PopulateNodesFromClient: Sometimes, it is not practical to statically predefine the tree structure due to data size or custom content that depends on user input. Be...

Download: Silverlight Basics #1: Introduction for dummies

As you have probably already heard, Silverlight is yet another technology for creating websites. More accurately, it is a browser plugin that hosts Silverlight applications. Yet another buzzword on the list: HTML, CSS, ASP.NET, JavaScript, DOM, AJAX, ActiveX, Flash etc. And now: Silver...

Web Hosting Roadshow slides and all the links

To start I would like to highlight some of the resources regarding PHP integration: LINQ for PHP by Maarten Balliauw MS Ajax Library for PHP Technologies ASP.NET ASP.NET Ajax Silverlight – get started with the needed tools and the learning videos on this site Windows Live services Windows...

Back from DevTeach, Montreal

I also attended a really entertaining session that Steven Forte did called "Data Access Smack-down" where he walked us down memory lane starting in the early days of Microsoft data access and ending with demos of the latest developments like Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services (A...

Deep zooming Seadragon with Ajax

Seadragon Ajax was written from the ground up in Javascript to add Deep Zoom to your website.  And you can even embed the viewer if you want too!  The picture below is from PDC of a bunch of the Coding4Fun gang.

Hey, Canadian Web Developers! Does This Sound Familiar?

Over the past few weeks, I've been working hard on the content for the Web Developer track of Microsoft Tech•Days Canada 2008. Looking at the lighter side of this space, I took a break to come up with a few observations. Are you a Web developer? If so, you’re gonna to love Microsoft Tech•Days Ca...

Patch: Updated AJAX Control Toolkit release

But we wanted to make sure we kept some focus on our AJAX Control Toolkit users.  As such, we pulled together some top-requested bug fixes as well as all the fixes we've recently gotten from our users, and have released the 20229 version of the Toolkit.  Thanks to all of our users that have been...

Download: .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 have been released

Concurrent with the .NET Framework v3.5, we've also released Service Pack 1 (sp1) for the .NET Framework 2.0, and sp1 for the .NET Framework 3.0.  The Service Packs are strict subsets of the v3.5 capability.  NET Framework v3.5 NET Framework v2.0 (x64) SP1 NET Framework v3.0 SP1

Download: ASP.NET AJAX v1.0 Ships

Head over to http://ajax.asp.net for the v1.0 download, the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit, the ASP.NET AJAX Future January CTP as well as sample applications and more. Technorati tags: microsoft, asp.net, ajax, atlas.