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The Chicago .NET User Group meeting for May will be discussing the technologies that collectively are called HTML5. Understanding what makes HTML5 will lay the groundwork for MVC4, Windows 8 and other technologies that utilize HTML5. The meeting will...
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Michael Learned, one of my fellow ALM Rangers, just has his post on “Do I need to branch” highlighted in Microsoft’s MSDN Flash. Michael is a Microsoft Senior Premier Field Engineer who is working on the Ranger’s Branching Guidance...
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If you are not familiar with OWASP site, I highly encourage you take a look at it. I think everyone can learn something by reading this site. More specifically, I wanted to concentrate on one of the top 10 mistakes, Insecure Direct Object...
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I recently uncovered a little issue with using entry controls that use unobtrusive JavaScript validation inside jQuery accordion control. When an error is shown, the accordion does not resize as it should, thus some controls fall off the accordion...
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As I mentioned before, I am going to write the last post about integrating Windows 8 Metro applications with Azure. First of, let’s take a look at securing our service with Forms Authentication. I blogged about that as well, and the only change...
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In this post I wanted to describe a solution to a specific problem I recently encountered. The problem is as following. I have a class with a set of dependent properties, such as start and end date or minimum / maximum numbers. I want...
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In February, Prasanna Ramkumar and I did presentation on the next version of Team Foundation Server and Visual Studion to the Chicago ALM User Group at Microsoft’s downtown office. We will be presenting at the Microsoft office in Downers Grove on...
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The first tip I published discussed how to execute an Oracle procedure with no parameters. In this tip, I will discuss a technique that works with IN parameters in an Oracle stored procedure. After many unsuccessful attempts at executing a stored procedure...
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I wanted to start a short series of posts, describing my experience in building simple Windows 8 Metro application using XAML, C#, and a service in Azure. The application is very simple, it is a going to be a famous quote app, where the user can...
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As the Code Camp is nearing its scheduled date of May 19th, we are still looking for more speakers. Our goal is to provide a wide variety of talks to serve many diverse interests of developers of Atlanta area. If you would like to speak, it is not...
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Today SQLFriends announced the first event outside of Chicago-land! In the comments of my last post Mike Donnelly (blog | @SQLMD) asked if there was interested in expanding. This was absolutely what was envisioned when I began and it...
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When working with Oracle, drivers are truly a pain to get working correctly. I will discuss my preferred choice and why for the following tools – SSIS, SSAS, and SSRS. SSIS Drivers Without much question, you should use the Attunity tools for working with...
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I love new SSDT (SQL Server Data Tools) product from Microsoft. I blogged about it a few times already. One thing that was bugging me though is the face that IntelliSense was not working for me at all. I have been ignoring that for a...
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Setting up functionality around your home has always been something that has intrigued me. Mike Riley is an incredible technology evangelist, developer and writer that I have had the pleasure of knowing for over the last 10 years. Mike recently had his...
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On my current project we recently started getting the following error while running integration tests as part of continuous integration build. System.InvalidOperationException: Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to obtaining a connection...
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Exciting news for developers in Atlanta! Atlanta annual Code Camp is almost here. It is scheduled to commence on Saturday, May 19th at Southern Polytechnic State University in Marietta, GA. This event is free to everyone that wishes to attend,...
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Minnesota SQL Server User Group Meeting Review (4/17/12) First of all, I have to thank the awesome speakers who presented at our user group meeting on Tuesday night, April 17. Mark Souza ( T | B ) for a great question and answer session. He was open...
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Just wanted to drop a quick note and let everyone know about some upcoming events that I’m involved with: Saturday, April 21, – SQL Saturday #118 Madison, WI – http://www.sqlsaturday.com/118/eventhome.aspx I’ll be presenting on Database Development...
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While attending a recent Windows Azure Quick Start, the presenter, Mike Benkovich (@mbenko) happened to show a table on his site with this keyword comparison between SQL Server and Oracle so I wanted to pass it a long. The Solution: A list of comparable...
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I’m a big fan of Caliburn.Micro and I hope that my presentation helped you become one too. Here’s the materials I used for the presentation: Slides on SlideShare, Code on Github Enjoy! Read More......
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As you may know, Magenic has been putting on Code Mastery events for quite some time. This is a free event, similar to Code Camp, but is put on by our company, We do it every year in all the cities where Magenic has an office. ...
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I blogged a long time ago on how to use WinDbg to find memory leaks in Silverlight application. Yesterday I had to face a variation of the problem, but this time I had to debug a custom issue. So, what we did is have customer create memory...
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I blogged a while back on shortcoming of getRowData function of jqGrid in edit mode. I also recently ran into an issue when getRowData was returning blank for a cell that contains select (dropdown) control in edit mode. So, I wrote a quick...
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There is one very interesting behavior of connection pooling feature in .NET framework / SQL Server that I learned yesterday. You can read the Connect issue here. Interestingly enough, default setting for TransactionScope object is to use...
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XMLA can be used to manage the structure of your multidimensional databases. While many developers use Visual Studio (BIDS), to deploy changes, as systems move to production or need to be more clearly managed, XMLA comes into play. Some of the most common...
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