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Love projects with undocumented work. Here is a simple routine to find the stored procedures with a given text. declare @text varchar(100) set @text = 'REVSERV' select object_name(object_id), definition from sys.sql_modules where definition like...
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This post is part of a series. Part 1 Part 2 (this post) Implementing a POST HTTP Verb Call In this post we're going to cover what it takes to implement a PUT into our REST Service that we defined in Part 1 of this series. First of all, what is the POST...
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I was working recently on a SharePoint Workflow project and was exploring some of the Office SDK samples. The latest Office SDK ( http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6D94E307-67D9-41AC-B2D6-0074D6286FA9&displaylang=en ) includes...
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The DFA creation code in Sotue is well underway. I have more to do on the DFA front (namely, supporting exclusive character classes), but I have been happy with the results I have seen to this point. With this work well underway, I can finally turn to...
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Body: So I've been looking through the new (as of 5 Nov 2008) SharePoint Guidance on Microsoft.com at www.microsoft.com/spg . It's not immediately obvious, but if you click on the last (right-most, at least in left-to-right languages) breadcrumb, you...
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After some research into a Service Reference problem I was having with Silverlight I came to find out (but not officially) that VS2008 DOES NOT use SvcUtil under the hood to get its service reference. It uses its own internal implementation of a proxy...
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I recently created a small 10 minute recording on how to create a WCF REST ful service. This screen cast has been published on Dime Casts .NET here. This is part 1 of the series in which I go into how to create a WebGet based WCF RESTful service. This...
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As I mentioned back in this post , the initial phase of work needed to allow Sotue to recognize data in input streams is to build a state machine that input characters can move through as they are read. If the state machine ends up in what is called an...
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I just returned to work from an unplanned 3 month medical leave. Had I known that I was going to be away from work for 3 months before my medical mishap occurred I may have done some additional things on that last Friday that I had worked. Of course you...
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My current client has a BI group that writes SSRS reports. In the "legacy" ALM tool they built, they used VSS, nAnt,Cruise Control and a product called "Visual Intercept" to "build" (actually just extract RDL files) and a...
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I'm going to try a new thing out on my blog. It's called the "Technical Timeout" ... its a small time to take a break from Technology and get a laugh or two. With that said, here is Technical Timeout, Part 1. Introducing.... Terry Tate - Office Linebacker...
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Over the last couple of weeks I was asked to setup a filter off an ODBC source (going against and Oracle database server and have to use the ODBC source – using that instead of a SQL Server Linked source and SQL Server Table Tabular List source). I was...
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Here is a simple SQL to get the date of a stored procedure creation and modified date SELECT name, create_date, modify_date FROM sys.objects WHERE type = 'P' AND name = ' STORED PROC NAME'...
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I'm a big Simpsons fan - and one of the appeals is watching Homer do something really stupid that he should have known better and exclaim "D'oh" when the inevitable happens. So there's nothing more painful when you end up "pulling...
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The Store Locator I built for ASP.NET has been getting a lot of traffic over the last year and requests have been coming in for new features like crazy. To manage this project a little more effectively, I've decided to move the project to CodePlex . You...
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There is nothing I enjoy more than helping out the technical community and my colleagues. There are different ways that I do this. I talk to people about technology to share my excitement and knowledge about what I know, have read, or done. Besides talking...
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Ok I took a bit of time off from the blogging. Just got into some really interesting work with a new client and have been holding off on sending out some links to some great content that I have come across over the past month. I am also in the process...
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I was trying to figure out today the WPF's equivalent to old WinForms functionality that allows a developer to change cursor shape. For example, if you have a control that may take a second or two to load, you want to change cursor shape to hourglass...
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After Thursday’s sessions ended I was invited to a dinner thrown by Red Gate software. I’m in their “Friends of Red Gate” program, which basically means I show their tremendous software to customers or at user groups. It’s been an easy relationship...
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Another fun filled day at PASS started with a session from Kalen Delaney. The room was packed and she was discussing query plans. I had heard a good bit of the content before but it was still interesting to finally see her present live. ...
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Body: Assuming you require your users to fill out a form to request a new site or site collection, one more thing that you may want to ask them for is one or more distinctive keywords that describe the site content. You could then take these and turn...
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If you're doing any kind of Silverlight work you're bound to get "Error on page" in Internet Explorer. Here's what I'm talking about. You fire up your app in the browser window and BLAM. Screen is empty and you get the "Error in page" error. Double click...
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On my current project the client has been dabbling with BizTalk 2006 R2 in a very unsupported configuration with Windows Server 2008, and SQL 2008. In previous posts I talked about Windows Server 2008 and some challenges installing BizTalk on this OS....
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A quick post about today’s sessions so far…Ted Kummert’s keynote was interesting in how sparse his details were. Aaron has a good overview of his talking points – I won’t bother retyping. I guess I was expecting at least one big “woo hoo”...
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When people talk about lack of adoption of "XP" (aka Extreme Programming) practices, one of the chief problems people have with it is the idea of "Pair Programming". There are more times than I can count where I have been in conversations,...
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