Android and Windows Phone 7: Part 2 – Emulators - WP7
One of the key components of a mobile development environment is the emulator that will allow developers to test their applications (to... more »
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Running Rails 3 on Windows
This is a tutorial about setting up Ruby 1.9.2 and Ruby on Rails 3.0 on Windows. It includes setting up SQLite3 and using it as your... more »
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Is Silverlight becoming a niche technology?
A lot of reactions started on Twitter this morning following the publication of the article titled “The Future of Silverlight” on the... more »
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Visual Studio 2010 Database Projects Guidance
VS 2010 database project guidelines enlighten the scenarios and different approach of using the VS 2010 tools more effectively and... more »
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Speed Dating - Using time compression instead of MDX Cubes to deliver rapid data analysis
The term “data warehouse” may have originated because it once took a literal warehouse to hold all the servers you needed to store a few... more »
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Top 3 Performance Problems in Custom Microsoft CRM Applications
Last week I got engaged with a company that built a custom application on top of MS CRM. In their testing lab they experienced very slow... more »
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DateTime.Now in v4.0 Causes Dynamic Memory Allocations
DateTime.Now's new implementation in v4.0 appears to be more memory-consuming than in previous releases. Even though the Int32 boxings... more »
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Android and Windows Phone 7: Part 1 – setting up the environment
I recently got to work with an Android device, so I decided to start working with Android development tools, to see how far I can get... more »
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How to make same height of cell across tables
We always have this case specially using DataList control in ASP.NET as if its asked to use Table format; it creates table in which... more »
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Climbing the Visual Studio 2010 Team System and Lab Management learning curve � A getting started Guide
Microsoft has this great product that sounds too good to be true. It allows software development and product lifecycle workflows that... more »
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Esent: The Decade-Old Database Engine That Windows (Almost) Always Had
What is Esent, you ask? It’s a database engine. No, not like SQL Server, it doesn’t do the T-SQL language. But it is an ISAM database,... more »
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TSQL Tips and Tricks - Different ways to know the server name
This post shows different ways of determining the server name from TSQL.
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TSQL Beginners Challenge 15 - Reverse the order of words within a sentence
This challenge is to reverse the order of words within a sentence. Most of us must be familiar with reversing the order of letters within a word.
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Communicate between two user-controls using Event Aggregator in Silverlight
I found many posts in the asp.net, silverlight.net fourms regarding communication between user-controls, so i thought to blog a bit about... more »
IE9 W3C Geolocation Support
Research on IE9's support for the W3C Geolocation API: http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html W3C Geolocation is supported by most... more »
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Making your Content Scrollable
Every now and then, your application may require your users to scroll through a boatload of content. The following video shows an example... more »
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Experience IN, OR and UNION ALL
In this post I am sharing my experience regarding a query that can be written using either IN, OR or UNION ALL with you. It is based on... more »
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VS2010 Parallel Stacks - Debugging enhancement in VS2010
Parallel Stacks is one of the debugging enhancements in VS 2010 IDE that helps in debugging parallel programming. When you press F5 for... more »
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SQL Server Compact Edition - SqlCeCmd tutorial part three
This is the third part of a 3 part series with some examples of sqlcecmd usage. The first part is here and the second here. This third... more »
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10 reasons to switch to WPF
WinForms still coexists with WPF in .NET Framework and Visual Studio. Despite the fact that it is still used, it starts to become quite... more »
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Article: Programming your first XNA 4.0 game for PC, Xbox 360 & Windows Phone 7: Pong
I’d like to introduce the XNA framework to you with this very simple and straightforward tutorial. We will see what XNA is and how its... more »
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Windows 7 Sensors and Location Resources
The Windows 7 Sensor and Location platform provides a unified approach to how an application interacts with ambient data. The Sensor... more »
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Performing a Right Outer Join with a Left Outer Join clause
Most of the interviewers I have seen tend to prefer people with better problem solving skills rather than better knowledge on a... more »
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SILVERLIGHT Tutorial: Styles in Silverlight
In this article I will describe how to create styles and apply them to different elements in Silverlight in the same way we are using CSS... more »
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Paul Allen on a Lawsuit Rampage
Paul Allen, a co-founder of Microsoft, is claiming that 11 companies violated patents that he owns.
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