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• Mar 12 Fri


Fix for SqlDeploy Task Fails

Steven Smith writes "...The short answer is that the account that your build server runs under needs to have the necessary permissions in SQL Server...If you’re certain the account has the necessary permissions, but you’re still getting the error, the problem may be that the account has never..."

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Clarifying the Ambiguous Term Solution Architecture

Sondre Bjellas writes "...I would like to air some ideas I have for the Solution Architecture talk and hopefully get some feedback...about the solution architect role, think about the role from a technical perspective, not a functional one. Here is a diagram that tries to illustrate some of the interactions..."

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Silverlight Discovery xap Caching in IIS

Ken Spencer writes "...I was having a problem where my SL app was not updating. Looked at the IIS settings and finally stumbled on Output Caching. To see if this would work, i added a rule for..."

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• Mar 10 Wed


Fix for Could Not Load Type Microsoft.Build.Framework.BuildEventContext

Steven Smith writes "...figured out that I’d missed a dropdownlist in the TeamCity project setup:...Originally I was using Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 for my MSBuild task. Changing it to..."

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How the Dynamic Management View (DMV) Works

Paul Randal writes "...There's no progress reporting from the DMV (or DBCC SHOWCONTIG) but if you look at the reads column in sys.dm_exec_sessions you can see how far through the operation it is. This method works best for DETAILED scans, where [you] can compare that number against the in_row_data_page_count for..."

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• Mar 8 Mon


1-TB Table Population - Network Optimization

Paul Randal writes "...I've been playing around with the network setup to make sure things are optimized, and this post will describe what I did and what effect it had...I kept the dat aon the faster SCSI array and the log on the slower SATA array...By separating the network traffic and moving to two iSCSI NICs, I removed the network bottleneck I had...and replaced it with..."

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Fix for Changing or Removing Visual Studio 2008 from DVD

Steven Smith writes "...If you installed Visual Studio 2008 on a 64-bit operating system, you may have trouble when you try ad add or remove functionality by inserting the disk (or remounting the ISO image). I believe this is because of the path used to install the 32-bit Visual Studio program. When you run the setup.exe off of the disk, you get this..."

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Code Sample Easing Animation with WPF and Silverlight

Christian Nagel writes "...With WPF 4 the animation classes support easing functions to change the animated values. The animation classes now defines the EasingFunction property of type IEasingFunction that allows assigning any object that implements this interface. The following code snippets animates an ellipse using the easing function from the ElasticEase class..."

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Expression Blend Pro Tip How to Add Your Own Sample Data Lists

Barry Gervin writes "...you can do edit a simple csv file...In your Blend program directory, you will find a “SampleDataResources” folder. Inside this you will find an Images folder...You can edit this file in excel and simply edit the values or..."

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How to Use a WPF ListView as a DataGrid

Paul Sheriff writes "...create a ListView that acts like a DataGrid. You are able to use a DataTable as both the source of the data, and for creating the columns for the ListView...You can download the complete sample code..."

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• Mar 4 Thu


List of America's Most Wired Cities

Jim Duffy writes "...Raleigh, NC, on top of it’s most broadband connected cities in the U.S.!...Taken from the [Forbes] article:...Raleigh is a great place to live and I’d like to invite everyone to move here, but I won’t. Too many people have already...and I don’t need anymore of you getting in my way on the roads..."

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SQL Server 2008 R2 - Free Learning Materials

Greg Low writes "...consumable bite-sized pieces of training. This involves videos, demos and hands-on-labs...released (for free) as part of the update to the SQL Server 2008 R2 Training Kit. You'll find details here:"

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Silverlight Whitepaper on NBC Sunday Night Football

Ken Spencer writes "...This white paper is awesome as it dives into smooth streaming with Silverlight and the bits and pieces that were used to get it working...."

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NBC Sunday Night Football Powered by Silverlight - Case Study

Ken Spencer writes "...Check out the new case study...The awesome support for smooth streaming is awesome. The video features are wild too. I did a demo for a customer and it took me 10 minutes to..."

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• Mar 3 Wed


Diluting the Value Proposition for Microsoft Surface as a Brand

Neil Roodyn writes "...It astounds me to watch a company that employs so many really intelligent people repeatedly make the same mistakes around something simple like branding...When Microsoft themselves allow research projects such as the Mobile "Surface" and SecondLight projects to use the Surface brand it dilutes the message...To make matters worse..."

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Tip on Opening Visual Studio Files as Administrator

Steven Smith writes "...The solution as suggested by...you can now go right into your project structure in Windows Explorer and open whichever solution or project files you want, and they will open in an Administrator privileged instance of Visual Studio, with the elevated privileges Azure and IIS require."

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Slick Silverlight Code for Merged Dictionaries

Ken Spencer writes "...If you need to change a resource dictionary its easy to swap them out. I like to define the dictionary in XAML (App.xaml) like so...This gives me a default dictionary and lets the designers work with it. Then in code we can clear the merged dictionaries and change them..."

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Read and Recommended: Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control

Christian Weyer writes "...fantastic official Microsoft guide. If you need to grok the concepts and technical details about how to do claims-based identity and access control on the Windows and .NET platform..."

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• Mar 2 Tue


What's Your Guess: In SQL Azure is Master Billable?

Guy Barrette writes "...Here’s a screenshot after I created a new database called Test...I was surprised that master is listed like a standard 1GB database and I feared that it might be billable...I went into my billings. Looks like only my Test database was counted as..."

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Eliminate Repetition with Action

Steven Smith writes "...But the significant improvement came in the area of logging the start/end of each method call, which I did by using an Action method. You can see in the original code there was a lot of repetition...I replaced each 3-line call with a single line method call that took in an Action parameter representing the method to invoke. The result is..."

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