Why GUIDs aren't so Good as SQL Server Primary Key

My informal poll of fellow developers reveals that by about a 4 to 1 margin, we are all using UNIQUEIDENTIFIER primary keys. Very Bad Idea.The GUID (UNIQUEIDENTIFIER) datatype is a wide column (16 bytes) and contains a unique combination of 33 uppercase and numeric characters. As the primary key it will be be stored in a clustered index (unless specified otherwise). it will be the page pointer

How to Drag Out Files Like Gmail

Ryan Seddon, aka the CSS Ninja, has a nice blog post up where he reverse engineers the new feature in Gmail where you can drag attachments from an email on to your desktop. Note that the feature only currently works in Chrome. Ryan begins with the following code:JAVASCRIPT:var file = document.getElementById( "dragout" ); file.addEventListener( "dragstart", function( evt ) {  

Microsoft Office Protocol Documentation

The Office protocol documentation provides detailed technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols (including extensions to industry-standard or other published protocols) that are implemented and used in Microsoft Office client programs to interoperate or communicate with Microsoft products. The documentation includes a set of companion overview and reference documents that

Burning Man Goes Open Source For Cell Phones

Today I bring you a story that has it all: a solar-powered, low-cost, open source cellular network that's revolutionizing coverage in underprivileged and off-grid spots. It uses VoIP yet works with existing cell phones. It has pedigreed founders. Best of all, it is part of the sex, drugs and art collectively known as Burning Man. ... The technology starts with the 'they-said-it-couldn't-be-done'

VLC 1.1.4 is released! PPA Ubuntu

VLC 1.1.4 is released, this is the fourth bugfix release of the VLC 1.1.x branch. This release comes especially to fix important security issue  that was discovered in most windows application, Linux in general is not affected by this security bug. So this new release is targeted for the windows platform. What`s new in VLC 1.1.4?Avformat fps displaying fix-TS,Fix an issue where some programs

Apertus, the Open Source HD Movie Camera

This article takes a tour of the hardware and software behind the innovative Apertus, a real world open source project. Led by Oscar Spierenburg and a team of international developers, the project aims to produce 'an affordable community driven free software and open hardware cinematic HD camera for a professional production environment' Read more: Slashdot Posted via email from .NET

Silverlight Media Framework 2.1

Release NotesThis is the official Release To Web (RTW) of the Microsoft Silverlight Media Framework 2.1. Notes:To use SMF with IIS Smooth Streaming you must download the IIS Smooth Streaming Client here: http://www.iis.net/download/SmoothClient The .CHM file in the API DOCUMENTATION download may need to be unblocked. Just right click on the file, select "Properties", and choose "Unblock".Fixes/

Analyzing Silverlight Memory Usage: Part 1 – Obtaining Measurements

A View from the TopSo you’ve decided that it’s time to optimize the memory footprint of your Silverlight application.  Before you’ll be able to do this analysis and optimization, you’ll need to understand a little bit about the way that Silverlight is structured. Though the Silverlight programming model that you’ve come to know and love is accessed via managed code, much of Silverlight’s

Gmail Priority Inbox Sorts Your Email For You. And It’s Fantastic.

Email overload has finally met its match. Tomorrow, Gmail is rolling out a new feature called Priority Inbox that is going to be a Godsend for those of you who dread opening your email. In short, Google has built a system that figures out which of your messages are important, and presents them at the top of the screen so you don’t miss them. The rest of your messages are still there, but you don’

Send and Read SMS through a GSM Modem using AT Commands

IntroductionThere are many different kinds of applications SMS applications in the market today, and many others are being developed. Applications in which SMS messaging can be utilized are virtually unlimited. Some common examples of these are given below: Person-to-person text messaging is the most commonly used SMS application, and it is what the SMS technology was originally designed for.Many

BITS Logging

The attached ZIP file contains scripts to both enable and disable logging for the Background Intelligent Transfer Service, or BITS. Both scripts must be run elevated so on Windows Vista or newer open an elevated command prompt and run these scripts. You may also right-click on the scripts and choose to Run as administrator. Read more: Heath Stewart's Blog Posted via email from .NET Info

Silverlight CRUD Operations Using WCF Service

This articles will demonstrates how to use Silverlight CRUD operations using WCF service. We are going to use Data Grid data control. Create a new Silverlight project using .NET framework 4.You will see project layout like this. Web project works like server project all database related classes and services, .aspx test pages, configuration file and other project has all .xaml pages controls. Now

New SIlverilght Video Tutorial: How to Create a ListBox with a Static Background

Someone from my Silverlight Email List emailed me and told me that he had been struggling trying to create a ListBox with a static background image. So, I made this short, 3 mintue tutorial I show you how to do it all in Blend. So, if you need a ListBox with a background image then watch the video located here: http://tinyurl.com/2g84vd8\Download the Source HereEnjoy! VictorRead more: Victor

Google Realtime Search Gets New Name, Its Own URL, And Kick In The Pants

  In a move that emphasizes the increasing importance of realtime search, Google has just given their realtime search function a kick in the pants, moving it from the lowly “Updates” sidebar on regular Google search to it’s own URL http://google.com/realtime, which was broken this morning but now seems to be redirecting to http://www.google.com/realtime?esrch=RealtimeLaunch::Experiment. In

Making Ubuntu look like Windows 7

   Although it won’t help Linux run Windows-specific software applications, this easy hack produces an Ubuntu desktop that looks and feels a lot like Windows 7. It’s particularly suitable for reviving older PCs or laptops on which the main activities will be web-browsing, email, document writing, and streaming music and videos from Pandora, YouTube, and elsewhere on the web. The process

WPF DataGrid Control - Performing Update and Delete Operations

  I was recently working on a requirement to perform Update and Delete operations on a WPF DataGrid control (similar to what developers do in a ASP.NET Grid control). The WPF DataGrid is an excellent control to bind with collections and provides various events to work with.   In this article, I have developed a small application using ADO.NET EF (Entity Framework) and WPF DataGrid. The script

LG putting 9.7-inch color, 19-inch flexible e-paper displays into production

   LG's shown off plenty of display prototypes that may or may not ever wind up in actual products, but it looks like two of them are about to get real -- a recent SEC filing has revealed that LG is expecting to put both a 9.7-inch color e-paper display and a 19-inch flexible e-paper display into mass production by the end of the year. Details beyond that are expectedly light -- including any

Создание изображений из элементов управления WPF

Существует достаточно распространенная задача, когда окно приложения или его часть необходимо сохранить как изображение. В WPF есть класс, который очень упрощает ее решение – RenderTargetBitmap. Он позволяет получить изображение любого элемента управления WPF (включая его дочерние элементы) в растровом формате. Рассмотрим пример использования данного класса и некоторые особенности. Сразу перейдем

Tips & Tricks: How to get the Screen Resolution in Silverlight ?

In this Tips & Tricks, I will show you the steps by which you can get the Screen Resolution of Client’s PC in Silverlight Application. It is quite simple. You have to just call the HTML DOM object to receive the handle of the screen and from that you can easily get the Screen Resolution. To get the Screen Resolution, you need to get the handle of the Window and you can get it from:

6 new Windows 7 Themes for you to enjoy

6 great new Windows 7 Themes available from the Personalization GalleryGirls Rock Gears of War 3 26Creative An Hsin Pu Tzu (more..)Read more: I'm PC Posted via email from .NET Info

Styling tips for common Silverlight controls

Microsoft Expression Blend comes with many Microsoft Silverlight controls that you can use to create a great user experience. You can also download controls from trusted sources.For more information, see Import a custom control by adding a reference. If you find a control that functionally fits your needs but doesn't look the way that you want it to, and if that control supports templates, you

Calling an asp.net web service from jQuery

As I have post it in earlier post that jQuery is one of most popular JavaScript library in the world amongst web developers Lets take a example calling ASP.NET web service with jQuery . You will see at the end of the example that how easy it is to call a web service from the jQuery. Let’s create a simple Hello World web service. Go to your project right click->Add –> New Item and select web

Smooth Streaming Primer

IIS Media Services, an integrated HTTP-based media delivery platform, delivers true HD (720p+) live and on-demand streaming, DVR functionality, and real-time analytics support to computers, TVs, and mobile devices. By offering a complete multi-format media delivery platform and a proven Web server, highly immersive websites can now be managed from a single Web platform: IIS. Smooth Streaming, an

Создание документации в .NET

Качественная документация – неотъемлемая часть успешного программного продукта. Создание полного и понятного описания всех функций и возможностей программы и программного компонента требует немало сил и терпения. В данной статье я рассмотрю некоторые практические аспекты создания документации для .NET компонентов. Предположим, что у нас готова или почти готова некоторая .NET библиотека для

LINQ To XML Tutorials with Examples

   A lot of developers over the past few months have requested us for tutorials focusing on LINQToXML. Although I have written a couple of them in the past, I decided to republish these tips in the form of a single post. In this article, we will explore 24 ‘How Do I’ kind of examples using LINQ to XML. I assume you are familiar with LINQ. If not, you can start off with LINQ by checking some

Interesting T-SQL problems

With this blog post I am hoping to start a new series of blogs devoted to the interesting T-SQL problems I encounter in forums during the week.The idea of this blog series came to me on Wednesday night when I thought I solved a complex problem... First ProblemThe first problem, I'd like to discuss, is found in this MSDN thread:Given this tableSalesDateTime SalesAmount2010-08-10 00:05:12 58.222010

HelpProvider in C#

HelpProvider HelpProvider control provides popup or online help for a control.  In this article, we will discuss how to use a HelpProvider control to implement help for controls in a Windows Forms application. Here are some of the useful methods of HelpProvider.SetShowHelp method specifies whether Help is displayed for the specified control.SetHelpString method specifies the Help string

Debug Your .NET Web Project With IIS Express [Tips & Tricks]

For those of us too impatient to wait for a hotfix for Visual Studio to natively support IIS Express, I've done some digging and found a way to [fairly] easily setup a debugging environment for IIS Express and VS 2010 (should work for VS 2008 also, though!). This assumes you are at least an intermediate user of .NET/IIS and Visual Studio. PrerequisitesDownload and install WebMatrix beta. This

Stepping into ASP.NET MVC source code with Visual Studio debugger

Using Visual Studio symbols and source files makes debugging much easier. I am specially happy about ASP.NET MVC 2 source files because I develop on ASP.NET MVC 2 almost every day. You may also find other useful symbols and source files. In this posting I will show you how to get ASP.NET MVC source to your computer and how to use it. 1. Debug optionsOpen options dialog and make sure you have

MvcContrib Template Gallery

Project DescriptionThis project is the MVC Template Gallery which is part of the MvcContrib project.This gallery is filled with project styles that work with the out of the box markup from the ASP.Net MVC project template. These were origionally part of the www.asp.net website but went away after a site redesign. Since they were licensed under a Creative Commons licences, we put them up here and

Managing View State in ASP.NET 4 Using the New ViewStateMode Property

IntroductionThe ASP.NET Web Forms model strives to encapsulate the lower level complexities involved in building a web application. Features like server-side event handlers, the page lifecycle, and view state effectively blur the line between the client and the server, simplify state management, and free the developer from worrying about HTTP, requests and responses, and similar matters. While

Listening to DependencyProperty changes in Silverlight

The dependency property system is a pretty nice concept. Receiving notifications for dependency property changes on an existing object is a very common scenario in order to update my view model or the UI. This is quite easy in WPF:// get the property descriptorDependencyPropertyDescriptor prop = DependencyPropertyDescriptor.FromProperty(TextBox.TextProperty, myTextBox.GetType()); // add change

Run Any Browser Directly from the Web

Want to quickly test your website in IE 6 or Firefox 2 or Google Chrome 5 or Safari 4 or Opera? Spoon is a cool website that lets you run specific versions of the popular web browsers directly in your web browser via a plugin. Great for geeks like me. Read more: Spoon Browser Sandbox Posted via email from .NET Info

Hackers accidentally give Microsoft their code

When hackers crash their systems while developing viruses, the code is often sent directly to Microsoft, according to one of its senior security architects, Rocky Heckman.When the hacker's system crashes in Windows, as with all typical Windows crashes, Heckman said the user would be prompted to send the error details--including the malicious code--to Microsoft. The funny thing is that many say

Sorting Algorithm Breaks Giga-Sort Barrier, With GPUs

Researchers at the University of Virginia have recently open sourced an algorithm capable of sorting at a rate of one billion (integer) keys per second using a GPU. Although GPUs are often assumed to be poorly suited for algorithms like sorting, their results are several times faster than the best known CPU-based sorting implementations. Read more: Slashdot Posted via email from .NET

Use a Dab of Vaseline to Take Vintage-Style Photos

The low-quality lenses and loose tolerances of vintage consumer cameras often gave photos a slightly distorted and dream-like quality. Capture that vintage-feel with little more than a dab of Vaseline.Early inexpensive consumer-grade cameras were manufactured with cheap materials and very loose tolerances which led to distortion on the edges of the photo and other effects. Photojojo, a DIY

Microsoft Co-Founder Launches Patent War

They're the everyday fixtures of the Internet experience: pop-up stock quotes on a website, suggestions for related reading near a news article, videos along the side of your screen.Now, Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen says he owns the technology behind all these ideas, and he's demanding that some of the world's top Web companies pay up to use them. A firm run by Microsoft co-founder Paul

.Net On Android Is Safe, Says Microsoft

With Oracle suing Google over 'unofficial' support for Java in Android, Microsoft has come out and said it has no intention of taking action against the Mono implementation of C# on the Linux-based mobile OS. That's good news for Novell, which is in the final stages of preparing MonoDroid for release. Miguel de Icaza is not concerned about legal challenges by Microsoft over .Net implementations,

Native ZFS Is Coming To Linux Next Month

Phoronix is reporting that an Indian technology company has been porting the ZFS filesystem to Linux and will be releasing it next month as a native kernel module without a dependence on FUSE. 'In terms of how native ZFS for Linux is being handled by this Indian company, they are releasing their ported ZFS code under the Common Development & Distribution License and will not be attempting to go

Skipping Traditional Recruitment, Going Straight To the Source

Out of necessity, reports Slate, tech startups are changing the way workers are screened and hired. Take database technology startup RethinkDB, whose old-school recruiting effort — job boards, external recruiters — yielded hundreds of resumes, dozens of phone screens, and numerous four-hour meetings with viable candidates, but no one who fit their criteria. 'They [recruiters] can't tell the

SQL Server - Understanding full power of CASE Expressions

Many programming languages like VB6 support IIF function which is used to return a value based on a particular expression/condition. In SQL Server the equivalent is to make use of CASE Expression, which is used to evaluate many conditions and return a single value. The following examples will give you some ideas on how to use CASE expression effectively declare @t table(emp_id int, emp_name

List of SQL Server Forums to ask your Questions

Forums is a great place to hold online discussions and look out for some amazing resources and useful tips. Here are the 8 best SQL Server forums (in no particular order) for DBA’s, BI and T-SQL Developers to ask your questions. These forums are definitely a place to hang around if you are serious in making a career in SQL Server Databases. SQL Server MSDN ForumsSQL Team Forums StackOverflow

.NET Collection Interface Hierarchy

Nearly everybody which uses .NET knows the Collection Interfaces and what they are good for. But it's still useful to see how they are hierarchical structured. Read more: Mattia Baldingers blog Posted via email from .NET Info

All-In-One Windows Development Samples (Updated on 2010-8-26)

Download: http://1code.codeplex.com/releasesThese are Windows Development code samples in All-In-One Code Framework.In the list, some languages do not have a link. For example,    Out-of-process COM Service (C++ | C++/ATL | C# | VB.NET) It means that the C++ and VB.NET versions are still under development. COM SamplesIn-process COM Server (C++ | C++/ATL | C# | VB.NET) Out-of-process COM Server (C

How to recover from USB errors ?

A USB client driver sends in and out transfers to its device. At times transfers to/from the device fail and the client driver needs to recover from the error condition. Failure may be due to a legitimate error response from the USB device (e.g. transfer failed with status USBD_STATUS_STALL_PID) or it may be unexpected (e.g. transfer failed with status USBD_STATUS_XACT_ERROR). Various articles do

IIS7 File Upload Limit

I encountered this while uploading a large file to an ASP.NET handler, seems like there’s a default limit of ~30MB for a single request in IIS7 on Windows 7.After some researching, I found that there’s a setting inside other than the regular limit in (god and MS know why the duplication). To fix that do one of the following:Option 1: Add to

Virtual Desktop

BackgroundMSDN defines desktop as “A desktop has a logical display surface and contains user interface objects such as windows, menus, and hooks; it can be used to create and manage windows.”http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682573(v=VS.85).aspx There is a Win32 functions for desktop management http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms687107(v=VS.85).aspx- CreateDesktop: creates a new

[Proof of Concept] Windows 7 ThemePack Builder (with three test/sample themepacks for you)

My name is Greg and I’m addicted to Windows 7’s wallpaper slideshows…With Windows 7 I’ve become somewhat addicted to new Theme’s, focusing on those that provide cool wallpaper slideshows. I started with those on the Windows 7 Gallery, but have since moved on (i.e. the Gallery was a gateway drug… ;) The problem since run into is that there are tons of “wallpaper” sites, posts, etc but few seem to

Display DDL Triggers in your SQL Server Database

To display DDL Triggers in your database (SQL Server 2005/2008), use the sys.triggers catalog view as shown below:-- Database-scoped DDL triggers in the current databaseSELECT name as TriggerName, create_date as CreationDate, type_desc as [TriggerType(SQLorCLR)], is_disabled FROM sys.triggersWHERE parent_class_desc = 'DATABASE'ORDER BY nameRead more: SQL Server curry Posted via email

10 things Beginning Silverlight and WPF Developers Need to Know

The 10 things are:9. How to Hand-Code XAML8. How to Use Expression Blend7. How to Write Value Converters6. Threading5. Async Programming4. An Architectural Pattern (like MVVM or similar) 3. The Layout System2. Dependency Properties1. Binding0. Our limitations, and when to call in a designer.Read more: 10REM.NET Posted via email from .NET Info

Windows Forms and WPF Interop: Sharing WPF Resources

With WPF applications where the resources should not be locally with the application but shared with multiple applications, the WPF resources can be added to a library. Using the MergedDictionaries property of a ResourceDictionary the resources from another assembly can be referenced, for global resources this is usually done within the App.xaml file. Having a Windows Forms host that makes use of

Get File Length over http before you download it

This is one of those forum questions that you “think” you know the answer to, and then you’re proven wrong.User wants to download a file from a remote site but they do not want to proceed with the download if the file is larger than 10MB. Make sense, right? I said there was no way to do this without downloading the file. I was wrong. Here’s how he solved his own problem: static void Main(string[]

NHibernate - prepare_sql and some considerations on mapping very long string fields

Recently I’ve switched some of my applications from NHibernate 2.1.x to NHibernate 3, everything was working fine until I encountered a ‘strange behavior’ with the mapping of long string fields (those that should be mapped to nvarchar(max) and varchar(max)...yes I use Microsoft Sql Server as my database engine): using the standard mapping the field are correctly mapped to nvarchar(max), but

MSBuild Extension Pack August 2010 Release

The MSBuild Extension Pack August 2010 Release is  now available to download.The August 2010 release containsversion 3.5.7.0 for those using .Net 3.5version 4.0.1.0 for those using .Net 4.0 This release contains the following high level changesNumerous documentation improvements13 new Task ActionsNew FTP TaskNew DNZip Task which removes the need for the J# Redistributable New SQL Logger (4.0.1.0)

Demonstrating CLR Side-by-Side Execution

Starting from CLR 4.0, multiple versions of the CLR can be loaded into the same process. This doesn’t mean that you can mix the 1.1 and 2.0 runtimes, but you can have CLR 2.0 loaded in the same process with CLR 4.0. This is great news for managed shell extension developers, managed COM object developers, and other library developers whose libraries are consumed by unmanaged code. The CLR Inside

OpenDLP

Overview OpenDLP is a free and open source, agent-based, centrally-managed, massively distributable data loss prevention tool released under the GPL. Given appropriate Windows domain credentials, OpenDLP can simultaneously identify sensitive data at rest on hundreds or thousands of Microsoft Windows systems from a centralized web application. OpenDLP has two components: a web application and an

Free Rainbow Tables

The goal of FreeRainbowTables.com is to prove the insecurity of using simple hash routines to protect valuable passwords, and force developers to use more secure methods.By distributing the generation of rainbow chains, we can generate HUGE rainbow tables that are able to crack longer passwords than ever seen before. Furthermore, we are also improving the rainbow table technology, making them

Prius gets optional underhood, zombie-deterring noisemaker, sounds appropriately futuristic (video)

Electric vehicles and hybrids are here to save the environment (or at least kill your fuel bill), but if you listen to some people they're also here to mow down our pedestrians thanks to their ninja-like ways. Nissan's Leaf has already gone the way of sci-fi by offering a Blade Runner-inspired exterior soundtrackto make sidewalk replicants take notice, and now the Prius is joining in on the fun

VistaSwitcher is a beautiful Alt-Tab replacement

VistaSwitcher is a beautiful Alt-Tab replacement. It's aimed mainly at Windows Vista and 7, but it also works under Windows XP.You get a huge thumbnail of the destination window; it's far larger than the one that comes with the "stock" Alt-Tab. Another neat feature lets you Alt-Tab between the windows of just one application. It's kind of like pressing Win+[number] in Windows 7, but you don't

Facebook Says It Owns "Book"

The Chicago Tribune is reporting that Facebook has sued a tiny start-up called Teachbook.com over the use of 'book' in its name. The start-up, which has two employees, aims to provide tools for teachers to manage their classrooms and share lesson plans and other resources. 'Effectively they're bombing a mosquito here, and we're not sure why they want to do that,' Teachbook.com co-director Greg

Download 53 languages for Windows XP

Previously we have had a great page for downloading the latest language Interface packs for Windows 7 and Windows Vista, well we now have one for 53 available languages for Windows XP as well for all those users still running it. “You can download and install additional languages to view Windows XP menus, dialog boxes, and other user interface items in your preferred language. Additional

Help! !clrstack is not showing any method names

From time to time I get questions about missing method names in the sos !clrstack output, like this:0:019> !clrstack OS Thread Id: 0x5d0 (19) ESP      EIP 0f31f340 7c80bef7 [HelperMethodFrame_1OBJ: 0f31f340] 0f31f398 1449167a 0f31f3c4 144915e6 0f31f3f4 10d81b48 0f31f4b4 793e25cf 0f31f4bc 79366b3d 0f31f4d4 793e2734 0f31f4e8 793e26ac 0f31f678 79e7c0e3 [GCFrame: 0f31f678]Read more: If broken it is,

Boyer–Moore string search algorithm

The Boyer–Moore string search algorithm is a particularly efficient string searching algorithm, and it has been the standard benchmark for the practical string search literature.[1] It was developed by Bob Boyer and J Strother Moore in 1977. The algorithm preprocesses the target string (key) that is being searched for, but not the string being searched in (unlike some algorithms that preprocess

35 Best Free Chrome Extensions for Web Developers

It will take an awful lot of effort on Google’s part to tear most web developers away from their beloved Firefox, but with the number of web-developer-friendly extensions for Chrome on the rise, developers in increasing numbers are giving Chrome a try and some of them are not looking back. Chrome’s faster than Firefox, uses less CPU and comes with built-in Developer Tools (accessible by pressing

Inspecting Local Root Lifetime

The .NET GC determines which objects are reachable by constructing a graph of references, starting from a set of roots. One type of roots is local references that are stored on thread stacks. The GC relies on the JIT to supply it with information about the local variables in each active method, and uses that information to determine whether a root should be traversed. When all optimizations are

Awesomeness reminders

How great would you feel if a real person called you every day to tell you, "You're Awesome!"?With AwesomenessReminders, a real person will call you every day to tell you how much you rock. If you're not around, we will leave you a voicemail. Makes for a great gift - Give AwesomenessReminders to yourself, a friend, or your childSuper Fun - Our calls will leave you beaming and ready to take on

SQL Replication Agent will RETRY for 4085 Years

Have you noticed the SQL Server Agent Job RETRY  is set to 2147?  Well it is not, the dialog window just cuts off the rest of the digits. Actually the Replication Agent are set by default to retry 2147483647 times, once every minute.  That is over 4000 years!2147483647 = 35791394 Hours = 1491308 Days = 4085 Years.How does this impact Replication? Should a Replication Agent fail and the agent be

MVC Sample Project Demonstrating multiple techniques

Project DescriptionThis project represents my 4th ASP.NET/MVC project on which I was working. Clients requirements were two forms with a lot of business rules/calculations which would be available to the public; a secure logon and input table and backing database to put data which would be used for certain calculations; the user form needed to provide feedback on calculations as they typed (ajax/

Microsoft Dynamic IP Restrictions for IIS 7.0

The Dynamic IP Restrictions Extension for IIS provides IT Professionals and Hosters a configurable module that helps mitigate or block Denial of Service Attacks or cracking of passwords through brute-force by temporarily blocking Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of HTTP clients who follow a pattern that could be conducive to one of such attacks. This module can be configured such that the

New Themes !

Our friends over on the Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering blog recently announced some great new features in the Excel, Word, and PowerPoint Web Apps. Among the new goodies are some brand new themes that you’ll find in the Select Theme dialog when you create a new presentation on SkyDrive. We’ve also re-organized the gallery in a way that we believe will better suit your needs: Read more: The

Five Best Music Discovery Services

Streaming your existing music collection is a neat trick, but music discovery, by comparison, is a much more impressive feat. Never before has it been easier for the average person to find and listen to such a diverse and wide-reaching body of music. This week we're taking a look at the top five music discovery services used by Lifehacker readers to find new artists, albums, and genres to keep

Nature Sounds is an awesome ambient noise generator

   Usually, when I need to focus in a distracting environment I just put on my earbuds and head over to SimplyNoise. But SimplyNoise is a bit too simple at times; it just generates a "wall" of white, brown, or pink noise. It can oscillate the volume a little bit, but that's just about it. That's not a flaw – it's how SimplyNoise was designed. But what if I want some atmosphere to go with my

Rustock Botnet Responsible For 40% of Spam

More than 40 percent of the world's spam is coming from a single network of computers that computer security experts continue to battle, according to new statistics from Symantec's MessageLabs' division. The Rustock botnet has shrunk since April, when about 2.5 million computers were infected with its malicious software that sent about 43 billion spam e-mails per day. Much of it is pharmaceutical

SQL Server - Understanding the behavior of @@TRANCOUNT when querying from a client application

As you know, @@TRANCOUNT is used to inform you about the number of live transactions active at point. If you want to retrieve it's value using an application, you should be careful about the behaviour of the returned value. Let us consider the procedurecreate procedure get_countasselect @@TRANCOUNT as trancountConsider the VB code that calls the procedurePrivate Sub Form_Load()Dim con As New

How you make a dll file which contains the icon set like "SHELL32.dll"

1. Open New project as Class Library 2. After Opening the file will show like:3. Now open a file4. Native ResourceTemplete File5. Then Add resource6. Import Icon7. Now again add resource for set version InformationRead more: C# Corner Posted via email from .NET Info

Disable a submit button during Post Back

Most of the programmers facing the issue of, how to handle multiple button submits by user at the same time. This article will help you with a small sample. You can restrict multiple button submission by using method ClientScript.GetPostBackEventReference (for more information, please Bing/Google). #source

Synchronizing group row headers with column headers in Silverlight DataGrid

Grouping in the DataGrid in Silverlight is quite easy. What is not so obvious is how to change the caption of the column name on the group row. It turns out that you could use the LoadingRowGroup of the DataGrid: theGrid.LoadingRowGroup += (s, e) =>{    e.RowGroupHeader.PropertyName = "A custom caption";}The original value of the e.RowGroupHeader.PropertyName is the PropertyName of the

Database assisted denormalization

Let us say that I have the homepage of the application, where we display Blogs with their Post count, using the following query:select    dbo.Blogs.Id,    dbo.Blogs.Title,    dbo.Blogs.Subtitle,    (select COUNT(*) from Posts where Posts.BlogId = Blogs.Id) as PostCount from dbo.Blogs Given what I think thoughts of denormalization, and read vs. write costs, it seems a little wasteful to run the

Developing A ‘touchy’ Twitter browser – Using Visual Studio 2010 + Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch devices beta

  Microsoft recently released Microsoft Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch Beta. It seems that the next version of Microsoft Surface will provide a development model that is consistent along the lines of WPF and Silverlight – Promising infact..   The Microsoft Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch Beta is a set of controls, APIs, templates, sample applications and documentation currently available

REBOL: Obscure Programming Language of the Month

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One of the things I routinely do when adding a new class library project, is remove all references and just add them back in as I need them. That is NOT a good idea for Visual Studio 2010. When I DID need System.Core, and went to add it back, this is what I got: "A reference to 'System.Core' could not be added. This component is automatically referenced..."After some Googling I found this article

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The WinAppDbg python module allows developers to quickly code instrumentation scripts in Python under a Windows environment.It uses ctypes to wrap many Win32 API calls related to debugging, and provides a powerful abstraction layer to manipulate threads, libraries and processes, attach your script as a debugger, trace execution, hook API calls, handle events in your debugee and set breakpoints of

Introduction to Java programming

   This two-part tutorial introduces the structure, syntax, and programming paradigm of the Java™ language and platform. You'll learn the Java syntax you are most likely to encounter professionally and Java programming idioms you can use to build robust, maintainable Java applications. In Part 1, J. Steven Perry guides you through the essentials of object-oriented programming on the Java platform

Google Translate Kit

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Once in a while I come across code that I didn’t fins in the internet … mainly because it’s for local use ;) This is one of these times :)This code is the T-SQL version of the algorithm  that checks the given Israeli CardID , and adds a leading Zero , if need one ( like in my personal case ) , and calculates the “Check Number” ( SIFRAT BIKORET ) , if it’s missing. I needed this for an SSIS

WP7: Windows Phone 7 Jump Start Sessions

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  SELECT is our bedrock, our foundation, our now-and-forever T-SQL multitasker…and it’s one of the most complicated structures available to us.  Here are a few things worth knowing about it, from the basic to the obscure. More-or-Less Basic Structure.   There’s tons more that can go into the SELECT statement, of course, but the basic structure is: WITH SELECT FROM

What is the difference in <%: variable%> and <%= variable%> in ASP.NET MVC?

With many folks adopting ASP.NET MVC as well as Visual Studio 2010, there is a fairly confusing change if you are one of those people who doesn’t engage in the alpha and beta phases of new product releases from Microsoft or any other vendor, for that matter. The issue of <%: vs. <%= has had a great deal of discussion around it in the years leading up to the Visual Studio 2010 release.  This new

Step-by-Step Tutorials for Office Applications and Windows OS

Accessibility training documentation for Office applications and Windows OS.Read more: MS Download Posted via email from .NET Info

Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 1 Training Kit

The Visual Studio LightSwitch Training Kit contains demos and labs to help you learn to use and extend LightSwitch. The introductory materials walk you through the Visual Studio LightSwitch product. By following the hands-on labs, you'll build an application to inventory a library of books. The more advanced materials will show developers how they can extend LightSwitch to make components

40 Windows Apps Said To Contain Critical Bug

   About 40 different Windows applications contain a critical flaw that can be used by attackers to hijack PCs and infect them with malware, says HD Moore, chief security officer at Rapid7 and creator of the open-source Metasploit penetration-testing toolkit. Gregg Keizer reports that the bug was patched by Apple in its iTunes software for Windows four months ago, but remains in more than three

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   The Nmap Project recently posted an awesome visualization of the top million site icons (favicons) on the Web, sized by relative popularity of sites. This project used the Nmap Scripting Engine, which is capable of performing discovery, vulnerability detection, and anything else you can imagine with lightning speed. We saw last month how an Nmap developer downloaded 170 million Facebook names,

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NewsBlur is a very beautiful feed reader that's laden with tons of JavaScript, but it utterly lacks any form of documentation. It's an open source project by the talented Samuel Clay, who has been working on it for 15 months now. He's currently working on an iPhone version, but the regular version is very impressive in itself. The sources are hosted over on GitHub, and the project uses the Django

How to JTAG your Xbox 360 and run homebrew

I will be going over how to install XBR and Xell onto your Xbox 360.  Installing XBR allows you to do many things such run unsigned code(homebrew), install any sized hard drive(even 3.5in desktop hdds!), ftp into your box, and custom dashboards.  There are endless possibilities with being able to run any code you want.  You are able to modify Xbox 360 games to run custom maps and cheats.  You can