The message is everywhere -- need an in-proc relational database for your “occasionally connected” mobile or desktop application, capable of query processing, transactions, persistence, and much more? Then consider using SQL Everywhere Edition of Microsoft...

If you’ve ever seen “insufficient trust for...” types of error message, this blog post may be interesting to you… AspNetHostingPermissionAttribute is a CodeAccessSecurityAttribute which controls access permissions in ASP.NET hosted environments...

Some of you have been following my blog for a while now… If you’re curious to see the face behind all these posts, check out the channel9 interview at http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=228442 .

In ASP.NET 2.0, you can use the new class – WebConfigurationManager – to access machine and application information. Better yet, there are a number of framework classes that allow for strongly-typed access of configuration section settings. For example...

Yesterday’s post ( http://blogs.msdn.com/irenak/archive/2006/08/24/717170.aspx ) described the four kinds of CSS type selectors. This post addresses the layout options and positioning via the float attribute. There are two kinds of layouts – in...

Did you know that you can design complex web pages without a single table by using cascading style sheets? Generally, this type of design results in smaller (as measured in downloaded bytes) pages, and (arguably as, if not more, importantly) pages that...

In April 2006, David Chappel wrote an excellent article “Introducing Windows Cardspace” available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/winfx/reference/infocard/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnlong/html/introinfocard.asp . The full article is 25 printed pages...

If you need to create a function that takes in a variable (unknown at creation time) number of parameters, what programming construct should you use? I’ve seen folks posting on the Internet solutions that use the __arglist keyword. Note: this calling...

Want to know how long it’s estimated to take for your SQL long running SQL command to finish execution? SQL 2005’s dynamic management view (DMV) sys.dm_exec_requests can help you estimate completion of long-running tasks. The example below gives you the...

Greynets are network enabled applications that are installed on an end user's system without permission from IT and are frequently evasive at the network level, using techniques like port agility and encryption to avoid being detected and blocked. ...

Did you know that you can now give different accessibility modifiers for get and set ? There are times when you need to allow clients of your class to retrieve data, but not change it… Now, you can define the set { … } property as more restricted...

When I found that searching on the Internet for “MSMQ Roadmap” resulted with zero matches, I knew I had to create this post. Quick recap – since 1997 application developers have been using Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ) in applications that needed...

If I had to choose one performance optimization technique for a web site that uses SSL, such that it gives me the biggest value compared to a relatively small effort (the proverbial low hanging fruit), the answer would be simple – improve cacheability...

The other day I was asked whether it’s possible to format numeric data to have commas every three digits to the left of the decimal point, and two digits to the right of the decimal point using SQL Server, e.g. 5000.125 to 5,000.13. The solution is quite...

iisreset command line utility is certainly a very useful tool for stopping a starting IIS. But if you need to recycle only one application pool either because want to minimally impact other running web applications, or you just want a faster reset time...

Need to have a table row that has a border around it? How about leveraging class selectors for this purpose: < html > < head > < style type ="text/css"> .rowgroup .leftmost { border-top : thin solid black ; ...

As I found out, a lot! This is one of those things that you might not think about, but that makes a lot of sense once you figure it out… After installing Windows 2003 Server on a laptop, and loading Toshiba Power Saver utility, I thought I would...

Many developers that started their programming carriers with Visual Basic have quickly come to appreciate the power of the Immediate Window. The documentation at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/f177hahy.aspx describes it as following: “The Immediate...

.NET 3.0 will be released with Vista . It will not contain C# 3.0, but will ship with C# 2.0. The major features of .NET 3.0 are: Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), and...

Yes, it is true – Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE) will not be supported on Windows Vista. So, if you’re using MSDE in your applications, consider migrating to SQL Server 2005 Express Edition (SQL Express) at the earliest opportunity. You...

Want to know what’s inside sp_help stored proc? How about TABLE_PRIVILEGES view? All the system objects definitions are now stored in the hidden read-only resource database (a.k.a. RDB) physically persisted in mssqlsystemresource.mdf. You...

Did you know that by typing http://servername/m you will be automatically redirected to http://servername/_layouts/mobile/mbllists.aspx ? You may see something like this rendered as a result: Home --------------------------------------------...

Similarly to a network bandwith, memory bandwidth is the amount of data per second that can be read from or stored into a semiconductor memory by a processor. Memory bandwidth is usually expressed in a multiple of bytes/second. There is an excellent explanation...