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ScottGu: Introducing "Razor" - a new view engine for ASP.NET

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:30:51 GMT

"ASP.NET MVC has always supported the concept of "view engines" - which are the pluggable modules that implement different template syntax options. The "default" view engine for ASP.NET MVC today uses the same .aspx/.ascx/.master file templates as ASP.NET Web Forms. Other popular ASP.NET MVC view engines used today include Spark and NHaml. The new view-engine option we've been working on is optimized around HTML generation using a code-focused templating approach. The codename for this new view engine is "Razor", and we'll be shipping the first public beta of it shortly."

Mindscape's ORM, LightSpeed 3.1 has been released

Thu, 27 May 2010 09:45:52 GMT

LightSpeed 3.1 has been released and includes VS2010 designer support along with a slew of many new capabilities - the ability to link models together across several model design files (no more huge messy models, logically group them across files), support for saved designer views, core support for Class table inheritance, T4 code generation support, and a whole heap more to help developers deliver faster.

Latest jQuery and jQuery UI Theme links on Google CDN

Wed, 19 May 2010 12:12:00 GMT

I have often seen developers asking where to find the jQuery UI Library and the jQuery UI Themes on Google CDN. Well here's the list

Win the Latest Manning EBooks

Tue, 18 May 2010 02:15:52 GMT

Here's a chance for you to win copies of the latest Manning EBooks. There are 10 copies in total to be won of the following: ASP.NET MVC 2 in Action, jQuery in Action - 2nd Edition, C# in Depth - 2nd Edition, SQL Server MVP Deep Dives, and SharePoint 2007 Developer's Guide to Business Data Catalog.

SQL Server - FOR XML EXPLICIT and CDATA, XML and XMLTEXT attributes

Thu, 13 May 2010 17:29:23 GMT

This is the follow-up post on FOR XML EXPLICIT that I promosed in the previous post. We saw some of the basics of FOR XML EXPLICIT in the previous post. Let us see a few more interesting usages of FOR XML EXPLICIT in this post.

Understanding ALTER INDEX ALL REBUILD with Disabled Clustered Index

Thu, 13 May 2010 16:07:46 GMT

A Story of Disabled Index

Creating and Executing Parameterized Queries

Tue, 11 May 2010 20:39:37 GMT

In this post we'll discuss how we can execute parameterized queries in .Net. At times when you can't use the most recommended way to retrieve/update data through Stored Procedures, you can rely on parameterized queries. It is much safer and recommended than building a sql string dynamically, which is a bit more error prone as well as hard to maintain. Parameterized queries are queries that have one or more embedded parameters in sql statement which are also type safe. You build them separately and attach them into the sql statement.

Download Microsoft SQL Azure Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Wed, 19 May 2010 06:00:52 GMT

If you are struggling with a SQL Azure problem, one of the first resource to refer is the Microsoft SQL Azure FAQ document which presents a number of commonly asked SQL Azure questions along with a very detailed answer to each of them.

DFT 2 DFT

Thu, 06 May 2010 06:25:30 GMT

This article talks on various ways you can transfer data between 2 Data Flow Task in SSIS.

Get Latest SQL Query for Sessions

Fri, 07 May 2010 18:00:52 GMT

This is number one request from any developer regarding how to see what was the latest query for that session.

Getting Started with LINQ - Part 2 (Language Enhancements)

Mon, 10 May 2010 08:15:52 GMT

In my previous post I summarized Microsoft Language Integrated Query (LINQ). Briefly discussed about its components as well as showed some code examples to highlight the sql query type syntax it uses. When we talk about LINQ, we are talking about number of little features that were added in .net 3.0 framework which are the building blocks of the LINQ. In this post I will discuss these features a little further as follows. Object Initializers Collection Initializers Anonymous Types, Implicitly Typed variables (var keyword) Lambda Expressions Partial Methods Extension Methods

Open Data Protocol Visualizer Extension for VS2010

Wed, 05 May 2010 08:02:26 GMT

A How-To video on how to download, install and start working with OData Visualizer Extension for Visual Studio.Net 2010. Its a 10 min video presented by Muhammad Mosa http://mosesofegypt.net

Getting Started with LINQ

Thu, 06 May 2010 15:00:52 GMT

In this we'll continue to discuss how to go about the SQL Server Data Access using various technologies. This post will discuss Microsoft Language Integrated Query, otherwise known as LINQ. I will discuss how it can be used to accomplish the same tasks we have discussed in previous posts. But before that it surely requires a good introduction to start with. LINQ was introduced with .net 3.0 as one of the language enhancements. It uses generics, which was introduced in .net 2.0, thoroughly to accomplish what it was designed to do. LINQ is designed to query virtually any kind of data source which implements IEnumerable<T> interface. It allows you to query the data by emulating the SQL query expressions using any .net language you are comfortable with. Isn't that amazing!!

What is AdventureWorks? - The known and the Unknown Story

Sun, 02 May 2010 01:17:24 GMT

The known and the Unknown Story

Setting default member in role playing dimensions

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:38:02 GMT

Today I got a call from one of my colleagues asking how to set a default member for a dimension attribute . I was a little surprised as I thought setting a default member is quite straight forward and was even more surprised to learn that the dimension had processed successfully but the cube had failed with errors.

ScottGu: April 30th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio 2010

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:02:21 GMT

Good collection of ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC and Visual Studio 2010 -related links.

Creating solution file from a SSAS database

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:34:52 GMT

Jason demonstrates how to generate a solution file from an SSAS database.

Jobs speaks: Why Flash is dead and thats OK.

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:52:14 GMT

As a Computer Science Professor at the University of Colorado and as an author of an iPhone and iPad book, iPhone and and iPads for Absolute Beginners I agree with what Steve Jobs posted a coupel hours ago on his website: In essence he explained why Adobe Flash is a 15 year old relic. Adobe is too big and too entrenched in its narcissism to understand low power 620MHz ARM CPU or for that matter understand or listen to anybody but for themselves. Jobs is saying here: Its old technology, uses too much power, cannot be trusted, crashes Macs and . hey . nobody misses it. Specifically he said that "Flash was created during the PC era - for PCs and mice,"

SQL SERVER - GUID vs INT - Your Opinion

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:15:52 GMT

Take your side. State your case. Learn the reality.

Silverlight 4 - Trim Text in a TextBlock and display Ellipses instead

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:04:09 GMT

What happens when you have text that does not fit its container? Let's see. <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White" Margin="40"> <TextBlock Name="tb" Height="20" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Text="This sentence is too long to fit in here" Width="100"> </Grid>

No-SQL - MongoDB - From introduction to high level usage in C#

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:45:52 GMT

A good introduction to using MongoDB from C#

Mindscape releases VS2010 designer for LINQ to SharePoint 2010

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:54:16 GMT

SharePoint 2010 was released today and one great new feature is LINQ to SharePoint. Unfortunately, working with LINQ to SharePoint involves command line tools and XML configuration. Mindscape Visual Tools for SharePoint provides a VS2010 integrated designer to drag and drop and manage the objects you wish to query. This post talks about the features and offers the first 50 sign ups a FREE copy of the product.

SQL Server - Case Sensivity and Accent sensivity determined by a Colla

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 05:11:15 GMT

Sql server 2005/2008 support Unicode characters so you can present your data in any language so for example if your Database collation is (a Latin) and you want to store Arabic language words ,you need to define Unicode data type columns like(nchar,nvarchar,ntext) to stored your data properly and to avoid the question marks problem (???) except if your database collation is Arabic and in this case it does not need to define your columns as a Unicode type because you can use the type like(char,varchar,text) to store Arabic language because in this case the collation is responsible to display your character language.

SSRS reports using embedded images

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 04:39:11 GMT

this post demonstrates how to use embedded images on your report based on a condition...

Too many indexes, Is it a problem?

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 04:33:24 GMT

We discussed in previous posts, how important to create index on your tables or views. However, next question will come to you what is number of indexes that you can create or will the be a performance decrease on number of indexes you create? In all...