On the road less traveled: a DBA Roadmap review(marlonribunal.com)

submitted by Marlonr(704) 23 days, 14 hours ago

If you are a SQL Server DBA with 2-3 years worth of experience or even a mid-level SQL pro looking to advance his career and thinking that he could use an advice or two, you owe it to yourself to purchase this seminar. read more...

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Who Are The Sysadmins In This SQL Server? (marlonribunal.com)

submitted by Marlonr(704) 24 days, 15 hours ago

When you're working on a sql server database, it is critical who has complete of your server. read more...

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Touch Friendly Design – Bringing Life to Lists(professionalaspnet.com)

submitted by docluv(1575) 6 months, 16 days ago

Yesterday I talked about how creating traditional <A> driven navigation can be problematic in today’s touch first world. In yesterday’s demonstration I pointed out how using hyperlinks and a traditional menued navigation scheme can lead to user error when touching a target. Today I wanted to extend my thoughts by showing how even using a hyperlink in a list of links can be just as problematic. read more...

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Touch Friendly Design–Making Touchable Targets(professionalaspnet.com)

submitted by docluv(1575) 6 months, 16 days ago

The way we design application clients has radically changed in the past couple of years with the proliferation of SmartPhone and tablets with touch screens. Touch is the newest common user input methodology. Sadly it seems to be broadly ignored by the developer majority. By this I want to call attention to the way we design modern web and native mobile applications, which tends to retain aspects common to legacy web sites. read more...

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Making a Mobile MVC Music Store Part 3: Creating The Controllers and V(professionalaspnet.com)

submitted by docluv(1575) 1 year, 1 month ago

This is part 3 of a series creating a mobile web version of the MVC 3 Music Store. In this installment the core controllers and views are created. read more...

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Fix for the ever-growing Search and Replace Dialog(connect.microsoft.com)

submitted by yesthatmcgurk(4063) 1 year, 9 months ago

MS just released a fix for the ever-growing Search and Replace dialog for Visual Studio 2010. Been waiting for this since RTM! read more...

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Oh, look! ASP.NET MVC 3 preview 1 released!(www.microsoft.com)

submitted by yesthatmcgurk(4063) 1 year, 9 months ago

The blogs are silent, but preview 1 of MVC 3 just became available on Microsoft's downloads page. read more...

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Final release for Silverlight 4 tools includes WPF fixes!(karlshifflett.wordpress.com)

submitted by yesthatmcgurk(4063) 1 year, 11 months ago

The final release of Silverlight 4 tools includes fixes that affect all WPF users, specifically those who are experiencing issues with design time data. Update today! read more...

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Use T4 templates to declare you dependency objects(www.scottlogic.co.uk)

submitted by yesthatmcgurk(4063) 2 years ago

Okay, while that's cool enough (kill me if I have to wade through another code file chock full of DP BS), this article contains details about using the DTE from within T4 templates and other nuggets that will enrich your code beyond this subject alone. read more...

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MetaGen: Use T4 templates to remove reflection from your code!(danielvaughan.orpius.com)

submitted by yesthatmcgurk(4063) 2 years ago

Why should you care? Ever implement INotify*Changed? Smell all those strings? Or have you ever {Binding I_Hope_This_is_Spelled_Right}? With a simple little T4 template you can rid your code of these nasty smelly strings! read more...

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Get A Second Shot On Microsoft Exam(dbalink.wordpress.com)

submitted by Marlonr(704) 2 years ago

There are many reasons why people do not take the Microsoft Certification Exams. Let’s face it. Some people do not believe that taking these exams and passing them do not add value to their career. Let us not talk about these people right now. Let’s talk instead about the people who actually believe in the value that these exams can add to their worth as professionals – about people who are continuously after the pursuit of perfecting their craft. If you can identify with the latter, we need to talk. read more...

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ScottGu acknowledges Tiny Face Man from the VS 2k8 installer(twitter.com)

submitted by yesthatmcgurk(4063) 2 years, 1 month ago

No need to click through; here is his comment in full: "Not sure why there are people in the posters. At least the freaky smile guy in VS setup is gone w/ 2010 - he will haunt us no more :)" read more...

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SSRS Weekday EMail Subcription(dbalink.wordpress.com)

submitted by Marlonr(704) 2 years, 1 month ago

One of the most useful features of SQL Server Reporting Services is EMail Subscription. Managers want their critical reports delivered to them via email for one reason: convenience. They want daily reports delivered to them first thing in the morning. Some want the daily frequency for some other reasons. What is common among these guys is that they don’t want to receive these daily reports on the weekend, which makes sense. read more...

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Today’s Link: Free EBook Introducing SQL Server 2008 R2(dbalink.wordpress.com)

submitted by Marlonr(704) 2 years, 1 month ago

Grab your FREE eBook now before it becomes unavailable online! read more...

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Step by step guide for upgrading from TFS 2010 RC to RTM(geekswithblogs.net)

submitted by yesthatmcgurk(4063) 2 years, 1 month ago

Full, step by step guide to upgrading from RC to RTM (final release). Use this guide if you have source in TFS 2010 RC that you want to keep after installing the RTM. read more...

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How to run, ON THE CHEAP, an IIS7 hosted website on Amazon EC2(learn.iis.net)

submitted by yesthatmcgurk(4063) 2 years, 1 month ago

Its beautiful.... This article shows step by step, with clear instructions and lots of images, how to host your asp.net website on Amazon's EC2. I'm shocked at how easy it is. 1) Create account 2) Select image 3) do a little dance 4) publish your website to the cloud read more...

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