Some of new features: Support for async unit tests (.NET 4.5 or Async CTP), for tests returning Task Support for generic theory methods New assert: Assert.Equal<T>(IEnumerable<T>, IEnumerable<T>) New assert: Assert.Equal<T>...

Cool feature of Windows 7/Windows 2008R2. Read more at Process exit monitoring with GFlags

Report Manager is not available in Azure Reporting, and I did not have portal installed. I've turned to PowerShell for help. Thanks to New-WebServiceProxy cmdlet, consuming SOAP is easy. $url = "https://myrsazureserver.mydomain/ReportServer/ReportService2010...

This is really cool. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2011/10/19/roslyn-ctp-available-now.aspx

I was playing with SOS and SOSEX debugging extensions and wanted to get whole help content, not just “command by command” Turns out, it is easy, since SOS and SOSEX authors kept it simple and embedded help as text resources. Basically you...

great presentation given by Dave Thomas (The Pragmatic Programmers) http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Developing-Expertise-Dave-Thomas

Miguel de Icaza about WinRT: "Microsoft has created a cool new UI library called WinRT and they have made it easy to consume from .NET, Javascript and C++ and if you adhere by their guidelines, they will publish the app on their appstore." Read...

New and improved Reporting Services features: Self Service Alerting Crescent Excel/Word renderers (Open XML) Much faster and more scalable Sharepoint Mode Read more here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlrsteamblog/archive/2011/07/12/sql...

"SharePoint mode full-page report rendering is either at par if not very close at par (differ by fractions of a second) with Native mode" http://blogs.msdn.com/b/prash/archive/2011/06/11/performance-of-ssrs-in-sharepoint-mode-reports-in-full-page-view...

it includes SQL Server 2005 SP3 cumulative updates 1 to 11, customer requested fixes and the SQL Server 2005 SP4 database engine support for DAC operations. some download links Service Pack: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID...

Svchost -> right-click -> Properties -> Threads Still, no way to know service I/O.

from PASS: http://prologika.com/CS/blogs/blog/archive/2010/11/09/crescent-on-the-horizon.aspx

Download page What's New For reporting services, enhancements include shared datasets and cache refresh plans; new data visualization report items; enhancements to Reporting Services features that were included in previous releases of SQL Server 2008;...

http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/reporting-services/ten-common-sql-server-reporting-services-challenges-and-solutions/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/downloads/default.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/subscriptions/downloads/default.aspx

Works in SSRS! http://prologika.com/CS/blogs/blog/archive/2008/05/14/intelligencia-query.aspx

Loading of 1TB under 30 minutes

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3BF4C5CA-B905-4EBC-8901-1D4C1D1DA884&displaylang=en

It is easy! Just create and compile SOAP proxy, and load it into PowerShell. Create instance, set credentials and URL. wsdl.exe /out:rs2005.cs http://rshost/reportserver/reportservice2005.asmx csc /t:library rs2005.cs [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom...

http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/30424/

Report Designer can be used to edit/preview reports produced by Report Builder. Here is how to do it: In Report Builder, save report to file. Launch Visual Studio Create new Report Server Project Create new shared data source...

Two new parameter properties are available in SQL 2005 Reporting Services: .IsMultiValue and .Count

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Report xmlns=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/reporting/2003/10/reportdefinition " xmlns:rd=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/SQLServer/reporting/reportdesigner "> <CodeModules> <CodeModule>System...

'===================================================================== ' File: HideParameter.rss ' ' Summary: Hides report parameter. ' May be helpful if parameter has query based default value ' Report Manager does not support this case ' '-...

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