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Change Server Url in Email for Reporting Services by rachitp

When you schedule something to run in the Reporting Services and when the report gets emailed to the requestors, by default, in the email, you'll see http://servername/reportserver/report.... So what happens that if you are on the network (which is most...
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Download sucks on Live Meeting by rachitp

Why the heck is Internet Explorer necessary to download a webcast/presentation? You really can't download (so called Microsoft Office Live Meeting High-Fidelity Presentation) using Firefox. Forget about just viewing it using IE. Does it really make sense...
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ASP.NET 4.0 ?? by rachitp

As Bertrand Le Roy has mentioned here . ASP.Net Ajax vNext being a part of ASP.Net 4.0. Damn! I have just started looking at ASP.Net 3.5/Silverlight stuff a few days back. :) I thought I can catch up always but things are going just too fast at Microsoft...
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Learning SQL Server Broker by rachitp

Working on some project, I have started delving a lot with Microsoft SQL Server Broker for 2005. I can see that the initial learning curve is very very steep and it's very easy to give up on SSB initially. But if you are like myself, learning SSB, be...
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Performance Object Showing Numbers instead of Names by rachitp

I noticed a problem in our Dev Window 2003 box with the Performance Objects (PerfMon). One of our Windows Services uses the Performance Counter API in the code. It was failing because of not being able to measure run the Performance Counter. In short...
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Windows XP Service Pack 3 by rachitp

The Windows XP Service Pack 3 is now available to download . It's 300MB+ in size. Happy downloading!
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SQL Server Service Broker & WCF by rachitp

I've started digging into SQL Server Service Broker 2005 and how I can use WCF with it. My current project requires some kind of reliable queuing and I've two choices: MSMQ & SSB. So, I'm trying to evaluate which way to go? There's a blog entry here...
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Search in All Stored Procedures Views by rachitp

For me, the following SQL syntax turned out very handy when I wanted to see where either a table or a view or a stored procedure is being referenced. I've so many stored procedures in one of the database(used/created by other users) and it became hard...
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Broken Windows Update with IE8 Beta1 by rachitp

I'm using IE8 VPC (XP) and am trying to see how Windows Update site looks, I get this. :) Of course, if I turn on "Emulate IE7" button, it works.
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Bad GUI Design by rachitp

This is the screen shot from MS Visio 2007 Pro. What if I don't want to save a copy, there's no CANCEL option. Even if I click on the 'X', it pops up the "Save As" dialog. Bad GUI design, isn't it? 
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