Walkthrough on creating WCF 4.0 Service and Hosting in IIS 7.5

ObjectiveThis article will give step by step walkthroughHow to create a basic WCF 4.0 Service?How to host WCF Service in IIS 7.5?Hot to test service in a client.Create WCF Service Create WCF service. Open visual studio select new project and then from WCF tab select WCF Service application to create a new WCF service.http://beyondrelational.com/images/service_and_hosting_iis.bmp Delete the

Visual Studio Integration SDK (Visual Studio 2010)

The Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) provides the user interface (UI) for standard components, such as compilers, editors, and debuggers. Features like Visual C++ and Visual Basic that are included with Visual Studio are themselves extensions of the IDE. The Visual Studio Integration SDK provides tools, samples, wizards, designers, and documentation that helps you develop

Top 10 Security Threats

The Internet is not a safe place. It is a war-torn wasteland; a landscape of viruses, script kiddies, hackers, and corporate spies out to gain access to the little oasis known only as your network. What’s a sysadmin to do? They say the first step to nullifying a threat is knowing it; let’s take a look at the top ten security threats facing sysadmins today! 1. Outdated SoftwareBy far one of the

Mole 2010 debugging made easy

If you never tried it, then my question is how do you live with yourself  Mole is an awesome debug visualizer which you can use inspect any .Net object while you are debugging.Mole also have some really cool WPF only features such as Visual tree and Logical tree visualization. You can search for a specific object in the object graph… I am not gonna say much more because all this info is already

WPF Visual Print Component

IntroductionOften we need to print the screen or some parts of the screen. This is pretty useful for printing graphic reports, like charts. In this article, we’re going to have a look at how to print a visual element with the WPF Visual Print. The essential part is serializing an XAML element to an XPS document, and converting the XPS document to a FlowDocument. Then we print and print preview

Come on, Feel the Noize–adding noise to your WPF applications

In contrast with all this things in the digital world are often much flatter and less visually interesting, without any of the suggestion of texture and the associations they bring. Complex textures (like leather) are usually best achieved with photos of real-world objects, but increasingly subtle use of digital noise is being used to create a little bit of visual variation to otherwise flat UIs.

Why Mono for Android?

I have gotten a few questions asking why a developer should use Mono for Android (aka MonoDroid).  I thought I would just do a brain dump on my thoughts on this.Java Developers are looking at MonoDroid and wondering "Why"?  They see that the core of Android is Linux, an open source operating system, with a bunch of passionette people behind it.  Java developers have a free runtime, they have a

SQL Server: Count Rows in Tables and its Size

In this post we will see how to count rows in all the tables of a database using SQL Server. A couple of months ago I had written a similar query Count Rows in all the Tables of a SQL Server Database using DBCC UPDATEUSAGE and the undocumented stored procedure sp_msForEachTable. However the rows returned using this approach could be inaccurate at times. I consulted my DBA friend Yogesh who told

Some things you might not want to do in T-SQL (but are funny anyway) - Mandelbrot ASCII Art

Today I’m sharing something I first posted two years ago: Something Pretty.Something PrettyA T-SQL script I came up with that displays the Mandelbrot set. (Tip: Hit Ctrl-T before executing) Read more: Greg's Cool [Insert Clever Name] of the Day  Read more: Mandelbrot Revisited.  Posted via email from Jasper-net

Web Platform Installer 3.0

OverviewThe Web Platform Installer (WebPI) is a simplified download/install experience for all of Microsoft’s free web products. It includes everything that you need to get up and running to build your web solutions – from servers, tools, and technologies, including the most recently updated products. You can also choose from your favorite Web applications and Web PI will download and install not