Using Open XML SDK 2.0 to Create Office Solutions on Windows 7 (blogs.msdn.com)

published 4 hours, 51 minutes ago, submitted by zhiming(1120) 10 days, 8 hours ago

With Open XML SDK 2.0, it becomes much easier to create Microsoft Office (2007 and 2010) based solutions with managed code than to work with VSTO (Office runtime for Visual Studio through interop) directly. The December 2009 Community Technical Preview (CTP) of the SDK, available for download here, is supported on Windows 7, Vista, XP and Windows Server 2003 and 2008. You can watch this 8-minute video to learn more about how to work with the SDK, including three handy tools for developers here. read more...

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Enterprise Library 5.0 and Unity 2.0 Roadmap (blogs.msdn.com)

published 5 hours, 36 minutes ago, submitted by jbarnes(3419) 7 days, 9 hours ago

Now that the release of Visual Studio 2010 is just around the corner, the next thing to consider is when will the updated release of Entlib ship? Check out this blog post by Grigori Melnik where he reveals that April 14, 2010 is the magic target date…http://blogs.msdn.com/agile/archive/2010/01/20/announcing-enterprise-library-5-0-and-unity-2-0-roadmap.aspx For those of you who may not be familiar with what Enlib is - The Microsoft Enterprise Library is a collection of reusable software components (application blocks) designed to assist software developers with common enterprise development challenges. read more...

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JSON Performance in .NET with Binary Data (testing...) (james.newtonking.com)

published 6 hours, 21 minutes ago, submitted by JamesNK(2955) 1 day, 17 hours ago

Binary data and text file formats (JSON, XML) don’t tend get along. To be included in JSON or XML binary data has to be encode into a text friendly format, generally base64, which creates overhead both in the time spent encoding/decoding binary, and the extra size of the text encoded data in the message. In our test we’ll compare serializing a message with binary data using common .NET serialization methods and compare the result. read more...

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C# 4.0 New Features, Videos, Articles and Books (www.devcurry.com)

published 8 hours, 36 minutes ago, submitted by mopen(1034) 12 hours, 6 minutes ago

I was collecting some learning material on C# 4.0 and stumbled across some useful videos, articles and documents available on C# 4.0. I am just listing a few of them. Check them out! read more...

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Reporting in NoSQL (blog.wekeroad.com)

published 10 hours, 6 minutes ago, submitted by johnsheehan(4520) 3 days, 17 hours ago

One question that comes up a lot in conversation, however, is “dude what about reporting – you can’t do that with NoSQL very well now can ya?” and the answer is “yes, correct. You can’t”. As with all things programming: right tool for the right job. read more...

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Query Optimization - Interesting Observation of Compute Scalar before (dotnetkicks.com)

published 16 hours, 51 minutes ago, submitted by pinaldave(6373) 2 days, 13 hours ago

SQL SERVER – Stream Aggregate Showplan Operator – Reason of Compute Scalar before Stream Aggregate February 5, 2010 by pinaldave | Edit I keep a check on the questions received from my readers; when any question crosses my threshold, I surely try to blog about it online. Stream Aggregate is a quite commonly encountered showplan operator. I have often found it in very simple COUNT(*) operation’s execution plan. If you like to read an official note on the subject, you can read the same on Book Online over here. The Stream Aggregate operator groups rows by one or more columns and then calculates one or more aggregate expressions returned by the query. Click more for further story. read more...

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Alvas.Audio 7.1 has been published. (alvas.net)

published 19 hours, 51 minutes ago, submitted by alvasnet(254) 4 days, 12 hours ago

Whats new (version 7.1): Writes ID3 tag version 1 from MPEG Layer3 streams. Writes INFO metadata(similar mp3 tags) from Wave streams. Checks audio signal silence... read more...

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How to Convert Hex to Decimal - A simple puzzle (blog.sqlauthority.com)

published 2 days, 11 hours ago, submitted by pinaldave(6373) 7 days, 19 hours ago

How to Convert Hex to Decimal - A simple puzzle? Let us see if you have answer to this simple puzzle. read more...

1 comment | category: Database | Views: 356

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.NET 4.0 and System.Collections.Concurrent.ConcurrentQueue (www.codethinked.com)

published 3 days, 11 hours ago, submitted by pitadev_aj(270) 4 days, 9 hours ago

The ConcurrentQueue is a simple (in use, not in construction!) and yet very powerful addition to your parallel programming toolset. If you need thread-safe FIFO operations, then you can throw your locks away and start using the ConcurrentQueue today. read more...

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ASP.NET MVC 2 RC 2 Released (haacked.com)

published 3 days, 12 hours ago, submitted by johnsheehan(4520) 3 days, 19 hours ago

After receiving feedback from our last release candidate back in December, we decided it would be prudent to have one more release candidate that incorporated the feedback. You can read the release notes for everything that changed, there’s not a whole lot. read more...

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Windows Azure Drive (aka X-Drive) (blog.maartenballiauw.be)

published 4 days, 11 hours ago, submitted by maartenba(5585) 6 days, 11 hours ago

With today’s release of the Windows Azure Tools and SDK version 1.1, also the Windows Azure Drive feature has been released. Announced at last year’s PDC as X-Drive, which has nothing to do with a well-known German car manufacturer, this new feature enables a Windows Azure application to use existing NTFS APIs to access a durable drive. This allows the Windows Azure application to mount a page blob as a drive letter, such as X:, and enables easily migration of existing NTFS applications to the cloud. This blog post will describe the necessary steps to create and/or mount a virtual hard disk on a Windows Azure role instance. read more...

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A deeper look into AutoMapper: Custom Type Resolvers (www.dimecasts.net)

published 5 days, 6 hours ago, submitted by dwhittaker(12k) 5 days, 13 hours ago

AutoMapper is a framework which uses a convention-based matching algorithm to match up source to destination values. In this episode we are going to learn how to use type resolvers. Type resolvers allow you to perform custom value mapping in a very simple and elegant way with very little code read more...

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Gherkin style specification testing in .NET (ryanlanciaux.com)

published 7 days, 1 hour ago, submitted by dengar007(3069) 7 days, 11 hours ago

Behavior Driven Development is something that has interested me for quite awhile. I have constantly tried to write my tests as clear and concise as possible but once I saw Cucumber for Ruby that became the new standard for what I was trying to achieve in .NET. This is where SpecFlow comes in. read more...

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.NET 4.0 and System.Collections.Concurrent.ConcurrentStack (www.codethinked.com)

published 7 days, 3 hours ago, submitted by pitadev_aj(270) 7 days, 9 hours ago

The ConcurrentStack is an excellent new tool in our parallel programming toolset which allows us to get the LIFO behavior we want, all without having to worry about locking. read more...

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Did you know about db4o - a brilliant object oriented database? (www.hieu.co.uk)

published 7 days, 8 hours ago, submitted by gerpx(404) 10 days, 9 hours ago

Forget about XML for small and middle sized apps. Use simple, straight forward OO persistence (db4o it's all objects!) read more...

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Validating a variable length list, ASP.NET MVC 2-style (blog.stevensanderson.com)

published 9 days, 10 hours ago, submitted by glennen(235) 10 days, 1 hour ago

Steve Anderson follow up article on how to validate a variable elgnth list in MVC 2. read more...

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