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T4 Template for generate Table Script from XSD

ASP.NET Weblogs — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:48:00 GMT

The below T4 template will generate Create Table script from a XSD file. The Template will create a dataset from a XSD file and generate create table script from the dataset. 1 <#@ template language= " C#v3.5 " hostspecific= " True " debug= " True " #> 2 <#@ assembly name= " System.Core " #> 3 <#@ assembly name= " System.Data " #> 4 <#@ assembly name= " System.Xml " #> 5 <#@ output extension= " .sql " #> 6 <#@ import namespace= " System " #> 7 <#@ import namespace= " System.IO " #> 8 <#@ import namespace= " System.Xml " #> 9 <#@ import namespace= " System.Data " #> 10 <# PrepareToRender...(read more)

Dynamics CRM 4 Mobile Express Released!

ASP.NET Weblogs — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:07:00 GMT

Mobile Express for Dynamics CRM is now available for free from Microsoft. You can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=f592ec6c-f412-4fd5-9a80-cd3bcbd26d8b Here it is running on the iPhone Main Accounts Active Accounts New Account Read More......(read more)

Silverlight 3 is here!

Al Pascual: Blog — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:28:00 GMT

Finally after not that long of a wait the “rumors” were true, Silverlight 3.0 is here, the first release was at the Mix09, and now we already have a release. Microsoft proofs again they can move fast even being a huge corporation. Even when the Silverlight.NET website says that is Silverlight 3 Beta the links are to the release version of those applications. I guess they haven’t updated the site yet or will be updated tomorrow morning. The final version is a day ahead of the product launch event in San Francisco. http://silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight3/default.aspx You can get more information of the new feature on SharpGIS blog . Cheers Al var customPushPin=''; var addlInfo='More Information...'; var VEDT = VEDataType...(read more)

Everyman Links for July 9, 2009

Dave Burke — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:10:01 GMT

Fake Steve Jobs is back. I haven’t read Fake Steve in a while, but this article on the Chrome OS is as good as it gets. Choice bits are “You also may not have noticed, but nobody uses Chrome. Because Chrome is ***. Just utter, utter ***. Our guys on the Safari team even had special toilet paper made up with a Chrome logo on every sheet. That's how bad it is.” “How much more out of control and undisciplined can Google get? They've got Android, and nobody wants it. What's next? A Gmail-based operating system? Honestly, Google, is there anyone in charge over there? Is there anyone who knows how to criticize anything in that fucked up little Montessori preschool of yours?” Bing Moves. As you know, I’m a Bing Man now. Apparently Bing...(read more)

Waegis After a Year

Keyvan Nayyeri — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:46:05 GMT

These days I’m not having good days neither in the social life nor in the personal life, nor in the professional life, to talk about celebration and happiness, but as a coincidence, it’s also the time for birthday anniversaries of my sites, family members, and friends! However, after the fourth birthday anniversary of my blog, today I marked the first birthday anniversary of Waegis , my professional anti-spam service for modern spam types. I feel that the past year has gone fast to me, at least faster than ever, because I can’t believe it’s been a year since I launched Waegis and Phil Haack reported the first problem with user activation system in a few minutes! I’ve detailed some points about the service in my original anniversary post on Waegis...(read more)

Browser Detection with MS Ajax libraries

ASP.NET Weblogs — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:43:00 GMT

Most web developers use the navigator.userAgent to determine which browser is currently running your script. I've also seen this var IE = document.all ? true : false; But there is an undocumented library in the MS Ajax libraries for this... HEY PRESTO ----> Sys.Browser An example of this... if (Sys.Browser.agent != Sys.Browser.InternetExplorer) { //let's do something because we're not IE } Hope that helps someone! Enjoy....( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Comparing Two Arrays

ASP.NET Weblogs — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:19:18 GMT

I was looking at some old code today that was checking if two byte arrays had the same data in them. It was a simple loop that compared each element. I recalled my blog post from November of last year about comparing collections/arrays in MSTest and thought, "I wonder if LINQ has something similar"? As a matter of fact it does! IEnumerable<T>.SequenceEqual() does exactly what I was looking for. By default, it uses the type's default comparer, or you can supply your own. Very nice! Technorati Tags: .NET , LINQ Read More......(read more)

A simple include for ASP.NET

ASP.NET Weblogs — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:30:55 GMT

In yesterday’s post , I alluded to a simple include extension method that I like to use when I don’t care about designer support. In a comment, Andrew asked if I could share the code for it, so here it is. I never liked the regular way of including user controls in WebForms and how they require a registration and a declaration, both of which are more verbose than they need to be. A plain #include would work but is a little outdated (and if I’m not mistaken it’s not even available by default in IIS7). My Include method is quite similar to MVC’s RenderPartial except that it doesn’t deal with view data. It’s a plain and simple include. Just give it the relative path to a user control: <% this .Include( "Header.ascx" ); %> Here’s...(read more)

Silverlight 3 and Twitter

ASP.NET Weblogs — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:08:00 GMT

The Twitterworld or (Twittersphere or whatever silly *** someone made up today) was all abuzz about the release of Silverlight 3 today, and I was shocked at how quickly it made the trends and how overwhelmingly it was positive. I kind of knew it was coming already for various reasons (spelled NDA), but it makes me happy to see how excited most people are. I think that individually, the new features have been of average importance, but together, this is a really big deal release. My own pet excitement is attached to the out-of-browser feature, and to a lesser degree the H.264 support, but again, it's an overwhelmingly positive reaction. But of course the haters are, well, haters. There's a lot of noise and hate on Twitter in general,...(read more)

Minimizing unit Test Fragility – 8 features in Typemock Isolator to help

ASP.NET Weblogs — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:52:50 GMT

in continuation to my challenge (which no one had bothered answering, lazy web!) One of the things that inhibits unit tests in organizations is the idea of fragile tests. a Fragile test is a test that can easily break when the production code changes. That’s not to say that tests should never break as you change production code, but there are ways to minimize this effect so that when tests do break, they break for the right reason. the right reason is when a feature in production code isn’t working. the wrong reasons can be many and varied. Of the most common ones is the idea of over specification in tests. The more your test expects of your code’s internal implementation, the more “specified” it is, the more “expectations” it has on...(read more)

Silverlight 3 quietly released a day early

ASP.NET Weblogs — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:56:00 GMT

I don't see any official word yet, but here are the links to the binaries: Microsoft® Silverlight™ 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Microsoft Silverlight 3 Client Install Page I'm just hoping that I'll be able to multitarget for Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3 apps now. Read More......(read more)

Hiding the Recycle Bin

ASP.NET Weblogs — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:14:00 GMT

The SharePoint Recycle Bin is a very useful feature, but due to the lack of a separate permission structure, sometimes product owners want to hide it from their users. This can be done in a variety of ways, but I've found that the simplest is to create a new master page (usually from a downloaded copy of the one you currently use on your site) and find the following tag: <SharePoint:SPLinkButton runat="server" NavigateUrl="~site/layouts/recyclebin.aspx" id=idNavLinkRecycleBin" ... (there's a lot more) Simply add the Visible="False" attribute to the tag. This will hide the Recycle Bin link on the Quick Launch and allow you to retrieve it at any time. You won't need SharePoint Designer or Visual...(read more)

My Silverlight 3 preview up at StreamingMedia.com

ASP.NET Weblogs — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:11:00 GMT

The newest in my "Silverlight Guru" interviews with Troy Dreier is up now. It offers a concise overview of some of the big features we have coming for Silverlight 3 and with our encoding infrastructure. http://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=11268 And the previous installments are here: http://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=11188 http://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=11140 We're doing these roughly once a month, mainly driven by questions from the Streaming Media...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group Monthly Meeting 07/13/2009

ASP.NET Weblogs — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:54:17 GMT

Date: Monday, July 13, 2009 Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm Location: Tulsa Community College - Northeast Campus Street: 3727 East Apache, Tulsa Ok Bio: David McCollough is a Microsoft Certified Application Developer with more than 14 years experience developing software applications and is currently working for Microsoft Managed Gold Partner SpringPoint Technologies ( www.MySpringPoint.com ). He is currently the Vice President of the Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group. You can contact David through his blog: www.davidmmccollough.com Abstract: Multilingual SharePoint Publishing Sites A "lessons learned" deep dive from recent project experience where Variations were enabled to support the multilingual requirements of an Internet Portal. We will...(read more)

Preventing fragile tests – how can isolation frameworks help or hinder your goal?

ASP.NET Weblogs — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:06:58 GMT

One of the things that inhibits unit tests in organizations is the idea of fragile tests. a Fragile test is a test that can easily break when the production code changes. That’s not to say that tests should never break as you change production code, but there are ways to minimize this effect so that when tests do break, they break for the right reason. the right reason is when a feature in production code isn’t working. the wrong reasons can be many and varied. Of the most common ones is the idea of over specification in tests. The more your test expects of your code’s internal implementation, the more “specified” it is, the more “expectations” it has on the internals of the code. since internal code is more proone to change, so will...(read more)