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Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 - Performance

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:45:24 GMT

Microsoft provides free download for Virtual PC which is a helpful asset when developing applications in team environment as it provides an exclusive environment to develop/debug code without interfering other developers.

Dynamics - Virtual Machine Num Lock

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:02:37 GMT

Microsoft provides free download for Dynamics CRM 4.0 virtual demo machine. Microsoft Dynamics is a business management offering for financial, customer relationship management and supply chain.

Free SharePoint Designer 2007 Training

Tue, 26 May 2009 01:00:02 GMT

Microsoft made SharePoint Designer 2007 a free download as of April 1, 2009. SharePoint Designer 2007 is based on Miscrosoft FrontPage 2003 with more emphasis towards SharePoint enabled web-sites.

Silverlight 2.0 - Using Silverlight DataGrid to consume ASMX Web Servi

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:28:08 GMT

Microsoft released Silverlight 2.0 on October 13, 2008. Silverlight 2 provides cross-browser rich UI experience which developers can use to author media rich applications using .NET language (C#, Visual Basic etc) of their choice. The article will demonstrate working of Silverlight 2.0 enabled UI by creating an ASP.NET web-form with Silverlight DataGrid control consuming ASMX Web Service.

ASP.NET/LINQ to SQL - Building UI Layer

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:31:31 GMT

LINQ stands for Language Integrated Query which was introduced with .NET 3.5. LINQ provides the ability to write query as a first-class language construct using modern programming languages like C# and Visual Basic. This article will demonstrate working of LINQ to SQL enabled UI by creating an ASP.NET web-form with GridView control bound to the newly introduced LinqDataSource control.

.NET/SQL Server 2008 - Using Table-Valued Parameters with .NET

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:43:30 GMT

With the release of SQL Server 2008, Microsoft introduced a new parameter type called 'Table-Valued Parameters', which provided the flexibility for the SQL developers to send multiple rows of data to a stored procedure/function or inline T-SQL code. Table-Valued parameters can be used to transfer multiple rows of data without requiring the developer to construct custom string parsing routines, temporary table or multiple parameters which for a complex stored procedure can become difficult to maintain.

ASP.NET - Efficiently Importing DataTable

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:43:36 GMT

ASP.NET developers often use DataTable to store data received from SQL stored procedure, web-service, data access layer (DAL) etc.

SQL Server - Get Nth Highest using ROW_NUMBER() Function

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:10:05 GMT

ROW_NUMBER function was introduced in SQL Server 2005. ROW_NUMBER as the name suggests is used to calculate row numbers in the query result set. Prior to ROW_NUMBER developers relied on temporary tables and co-related sub-queries to accomplish the same, which often resulted in spaghetti code and overall bad query performance.

Only In A Database Can You Get 1000% + Improvement By Changing A Few L

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:01:04 GMT

Only In A Database Can You Get 1000% + Improvement By Changing A Few Lines Of Code

MOSS 2007 - Data Caching Vs List Iteration

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:02:48 GMT

MOSS developers most of the time need to retrieve data from SharePoint Lists. In one of the MOSS project I worked there were several provisioned .ASPX Pages which lacked in performance. The pages took more than usual time to render, on average a page displaying 1000+ List records (we are not discussing Pagination here) was taking approximately 2 minutes! Coming from ASP.NET/SQL background this was just unacceptable.

SQL Server - Using EXCEPT Operator

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 02:05:18 GMT

EXCEPT operator was introduced in SQL Server 2005. EXCEPT can be used to return distinct records from the left side of a query and which are not located on the right side.

SQL Server - Using INTERSECT Operator

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:09:07 GMT

INTERSECT operator was introduced in SQL Server 2005. INTERSECT can be used to return distinct records from the left and right side of a query. <a href="http://syedarizvi.blogspot.com/2008/08/sql-server-using-intersect_07.html">Full story</a>

SQL Server - Power of CASE function

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:07:12 GMT

Case statement can be used to introduce conditional logic. Case statement can be used to evaluate multiple statements and return one possible output. Case can be compared to Switch statement in modern programming languages like C#.

SQL Server - Common Table Expressions (CTE)

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:05:29 GMT

Common Table Expressions (CTE) construct was introduced with Microsoft SQL Server 2005. CTE behaves like a derived table but unlike derived table which has statement level scope CTE offers a procedure level.