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Self Service BI by rmoynihan

Project Gemini, the next release for SQL Server is to center around Microsoft Excel as its User Interface. Its got a new slice feature that allows you to create a pivot table and slice the data as you wish. Its quite powerful and easy to use for the non...
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Convert C# to VB or VB to C# by rmoynihan

Easily convert C# to VB or VB to C# using telerik's cod converter. You can paste code here and get a quick conversion http://converter.telerik.com/ or upload files or a zip here http://converter.telerik.com/batch.aspx
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Site Optimization by rmoynihan

If you are trying to optimize your site and reduce page load time and improve performance you can try the following, 1. Set Debug=false in the web.config 2. Enable compression on IIS 3. Use a HTTP compression module e.g telerik compression module - http...
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Report Manager in Firefox fix by rmoynihan

With SQL Server Reporting Services the reports have a very small height and you need to scroll down to view the whole report. To fix this you need to add the following property to the css file located at, C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSRS10.MSSQLSERVER...
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Microsoft Beta Exams by rmoynihan

Any new Beta exams offered by Microsoft will be posted here. They are a good opportunity to get certified for free or a trial run for the real thing. http://blogs.technet.com/betaexams/
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DocType Declaration by rmoynihan

The Doctype declaration should be the first line after the page/master page declaration. I had some user controls registered before this and I was getting some strange behavior with IE and some css. I had a few problems with the Telerik Dock controls...
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Windows Server 2008 as a workstation by rmoynihan

Windows Server 2008 works quite well for development. I have it running on Sony Vaio sr series. Follow these stepd to get it setup, http://weblogs.asp.net/israelio/archive/2008/02/21/windows-server-2008-as-workstation.aspx
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Pex - Automated White box Testing for .NET by rmoynihan

Microsoft Research are working on a new tool which can be added to VS for creating test cases for methods in a class. Pex finds interesting input-output values of your methods, which you can save as a small test suite with high code coverage. Pex performs...
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Overloadable Operators by rmoynihan

C# allows user-defined types to overload operators by defining static member functions using the operator keyword. In this example I am adding 1 to the result of the (+,-,*,/) operator. For the full list of overloadable operators go to http://msdn.microsoft...
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ADO.Net Data Services and AJAX by rmoynihan

Excellent way for retrieving data using ajax and the new ADO.Net Data Services. Data can be retrieved using JavaScript calls asynchronously making use of the success and failure methods. http://www.asp.net/learn/3.5- SP1/video-239.aspx The expand keyword...
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