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Thursday, August 31, 2006 7:02 AM

SYSK 189: The Footprint of SQL Everywhere

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
Posted by irenak | 2 Comments
Wednesday, August 30, 2006 5:19 AM

SYSK 188: Understanding AspNetHostingPermission…

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. For example,
Posted by irenak | 3 Comments
Tuesday, August 29, 2006 5:20 AM

The Person Behind The SYSK Blog

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 .
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Monday, August 28, 2006 5:18 AM

SYSK 187: The New Way to Get Configuration Settings

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,
Posted by irenak | 6 Comments
Friday, August 25, 2006 7:01 AM

SYSK 186: CSS as a Replacement of Tables? Yes! … part 2

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-flow (one
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Thursday, August 24, 2006 6:49 AM

SYSK 185: CSS as a Replacement of Tables? Yes!

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
Posted by irenak | 7 Comments
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 7:59 AM

SYSK 184: What Is CardSpace? The Reader’s Digest Version…

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
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Tuesday, August 22, 2006 5:17 AM

SYSK 183: Variable Number of Parameters – the Right and the Wrong Way

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
Posted by irenak | 2 Comments
Monday, August 21, 2006 5:29 AM

SYSK 182: SQL -- Are We There Yet?

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
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Friday, August 18, 2006 5:22 AM

SYSK 181: What Is a Greynet?

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. Greynets
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Thursday, August 17, 2006 5:33 AM

SYSK 180: Different Accessor Accessibility

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 than
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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 6:08 AM

SYSK 179: MSMQ Roadmap

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 reliable
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Tuesday, August 15, 2006 5:25 AM

SYSK 178: A Simple Way to Improve Performance of a Secure Web Site

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
Posted by irenak | 2 Comments
Monday, August 14, 2006 5:55 AM

SYSK 177: Formatting Numeric Data with Comma and Decimal Separators in SQL

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
Posted by irenak | 1 Comments
Friday, August 11, 2006 5:35 AM

SYSK 176: Recycling Only One Application Pool

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
Posted by irenak | 7 Comments
Thursday, August 10, 2006 5:08 AM

SYSK 175: Border for a <TR> Element Without a ColSpan or a Div

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 ; border-left : thin solid black
Posted by irenak | 6 Comments
Wednesday, August 09, 2006 6:34 AM

SYSK 174: What Does Stand-By Mode Have To Do With Display Device Driver?

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 finally
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Tuesday, August 08, 2006 5:06 AM

SYSK 173: Rediscovering the Immediate Window

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
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Monday, August 07, 2006 5:32 AM

SYSK 172: C# 3.0 is Not Part of .NET 3.0

.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 Windows
Posted by irenak | 3 Comments
Friday, August 04, 2006 6:26 AM

SYSK 171: MSDE Will Not Be Supported on Vista

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
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Thursday, August 03, 2006 5:20 AM

SYSK 170: Under the Hood of SQL System Objects

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 can view the
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Wednesday, August 02, 2006 5:25 AM

SYSK 169: Quick Access to SPS 2007 Mobile View

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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Tuesday, August 01, 2006 5:27 AM

SYSK 168: Why Developers Should Know About Memory Bandwidth?

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
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