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Jeff Nuckolls {Application Platform and Development Tools}

Here you'll find a little of everything as it relates to the Microsoft Application Platform (Biztalk, Visual Studio Developer tools, SQL Server, Windows, .NET development/architecture, etc...). I may even touch on WSS/MOSS from time-to-time. While my blogs are widely applicable to all verticals, I'm dedicated to the Education vertical (K-12 and Higher Education).

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New Azure screencasts and videos available
As we move towards commercial availability, the evangelism team have started to release the next round of training & readiness materials onto channel 9. See here to get started: http://channel9.msdn.com/azure/ to get started or check out the following Read More...
SQL Data Services in Education (Overview)
Having to host, manage, monitor, and scale databases comes at a cost.  In Education there is a almost a new need to host a new database daily with often unpredictable growth and scale requirements.  Image you want to post student achievement Read More...
Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation
I’m a retired US Marine Corps veteran of foreign wars, so when I bought this bottle of “Jarhead Red” wine the other day, I was touched by the underlining benefits.  The proceeds go toward the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation who provide educational Read More...
Software plus Services in Education (Overview)
With already tight budgets in Education, these hard economic times add an extra burden that force IT decision makers to be ever more creative to offset costs and turn IT cost centers into IT enablers for the Business of Education as well as the Teaching Read More...
Hyper-V error: "failed to remove snapshot" when deleting...
Interesting little error I got while attempting to Delete Snapshot Subtree in Hyper-V Manager . I was able to delete every snapshot, but the first one in my tree which would then throw this error message ( 'MySnapshot' unable to remove snapshot ...). Read More...
AShred
Ashred prank: Read More...
Unit Tests with Visual Studio 2008 (screencast)
Test Driven Development (TDD) has long been advocated as a "best practice" in software development. Without picking apart the details with this theory, I'll just summarize the concept: prior to jumping in with both feet, writing functional code, start Read More...
Web Tests in Visual Studio 2008 (screencast)
If you are interested in testing your web applications, Visual Studio offers a great way to do this without bolt-on or expensive 3rd party tools. Auto-record, configure, and even generate coded versions (C# or VB) of your web tests, then reuse with/without Read More...
Stream Silverlight apps in your blog created with Live Writer...
Here is a cool plug-in for Live Writer from James Clarke ( http://www.clarkezone.net/default.aspx?channelid=fe2866cb-00b9-4bff-bb11-1b3a88708a84 ). Notice I can now just select "Silverlight Streaming Application" from the Insert menu option. If you have Read More...
Changing Item-level permissions in a Sharepoint List (WSS 3.0) with Elevated Privileges
Most blogs, books, articles, etc... provide some nice sample code, but they all assume that the user is logged on to Sharepoint as a Site Admin or someone with "Full Control" privileges. :-) What if you need to do something to the currently logged on Read More...
ColdFusion to ASP.NET Migration
When considering a migration from ColdFusion to ASP.NET, you have several options to consider, I’ve touched on just a few here... Migration options: Re-write… which is really more like drag-and-drop and configure properties than it is re-writing code Read More...
Migrating from ASP to ASP.NET
Here I have compiled a list of resources to assist anyone interested in making a migration from classic ASP to ASP.NET. If you wish to skip the details below here are a few summarized pointers. In my humble opinion the easiest approach (using migration Read More...
Biztalk POP3 Adapter and WSS Adapter Example
After some extensive research I could not find a good example of how I could receive an Email via the POP3 Adapter for Biztalk Server 2006 R2 that completely parsed out the header content (To, From, Subject, CC, etc...) and the Body (I don't parse the Read More...
Visual Basic 6.0 IDE goes out of support
In just 1 week from today, on April 8, 2008, the Visual Basic 6.0 IDE will no longer be supported . If you haven't converted all your apps to .NET shame on you (I mean that in a pure-poor-humor sort of way, in fact it's widely recognized that migrations Read More...
Biztalk Adapter for SQL - Issues/Resolutions
Two things that you might encounter while you are attempting to create your schema for your SQL Adapter using the "SQL Transport Schema Generation Wizard": One thing that seems to be a common problem, is the SQL Transport Schema Generation Wizard diappears Read More...
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