Monday, September 13, 2010

Link to: SQL Server 2008 – Change Edit Top 200 Rows and Select Top 1000 Rows to Select/Edit All

Link to: SQL Server 2008 – Change Edit Top 200 Rows and Select Top 1000 Rows to Select/Edit All

Link to: SQL Server 2008 – Change Edit Top 200 Rows and Select Top 1000 Rows to Select/Edit All

Posted: 13 Sep 2010 09:58 AM PDT

I can't pass up passing this along even though it's not Silverlight or WP7 or Lightswitch or ... One thing I've been dealing with is the 'Edit top 200' rows thing in SQL Server 2008, and have just been dealing with it for a few weeks since I uninstalled...( read more )...(read more)

Automating Deployment with Microsoft Web Deploy

Posted: 13 Sep 2010 01:40 AM PDT

This is the twenty-eighth in a series of blog posts I'm doing on the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. This blog post continues a series of posts I'm doing that cover the new improvements we made around web deployment.  In my first post in the deployment series I provided an overview of the new VS 2010 Web Deployment features. In today's post I'm going to be discussing Microsoft Web Deploy – which is a free server technology that enables a comprehensive publishing and deployment mechanism.  Web Deploy enables you to not only publish files – but also provision database schema/data, run database change scripts, set security ACLs, and more.  All of these deployment steps can be automated using Visual Studio. This post will provide a step...(read more)

Building my new blog with Orchard – part 2: importing old contents

Posted: 09 Sep 2010 04:43 PM PDT

In the previous post , I installed Orchard onto my hosted IIS7 instance and created the "about" page. This time, I'm going to show how I imported existing contents into Orchard. For my new blog, I didn't want to start with a completely empty site and a lame "first post" entry. I did already have quite a few posts here and on Facebook that fit the spirit I wanted for the new blog so I decided to use that to seed it. The science and opinion posts on Tales of the Evil Empire always seemed a little out of place (which some of my readers told me quite plainly), and the Facebook posts were blocked behind Facebook's silo walls even though they were public. You still need a Facebook account to read those posts and search engine can't go there as far...(read more)

Web Camp LA–Results of the agenda poll

Posted: 08 Sep 2010 05:41 PM PDT

For the Web Camp in LA we asked you what you wanted to hear about at the event.  This is always a bit risky because you end up not being able to please everyone but it was clear that there were some popular topics out there.  Here are the results: Phil, Jon and I spend time last week to come up with an agenda that attempts to combine some of the most popular topics, like jQuery, MVC 101, Data Access and Modelling as well as Ajax, and Client-side Validation.  We think we've done that pretty well and I'm please to present the agenda for Web Camps LA: Timing Session 08:30-09:00 Arrival & Registration 09:00-10:00 ASP.NET MVC Fundamentals: MVC 101 10:00-11:00 ASP.NET MVC Fundamentals: Data Access and Modeling with Entity Framework...(read more)

Overriding a .svc Request With Routing

Posted: 07 Sep 2010 08:05 PM PDT

I was drawn to an interesting question on StackOverflow recently about how to override a request for a non-existent .svc request using routing. One useful feature of routing in ASP.NET is that requests for files that exist on disk are ignored by routing. Thus requests for static files and for .aspx and .svc files don't run through the routing system. In this particular scenario, the developer wanted to replace an existing .svc service with a call to an ASP.NET MVC controller. So he deletes the .svc file and adds the following route: routes.MapRoute( "UpdateItemApi" , "Services/api.svc/UpdateItem" , new { controller = "LegacyApi" , action = "UpdateItem" } ); Since api.svc is not a physical file on disk...(read more)

Hanselminutes Podcast 230 - Continuous Deployment with Jon Tørresdal

Posted: 07 Sep 2010 11:59 AM PDT

This week Scott talks to Jon Tørresdal from Norway via Skype. Jon is an Architect for a Norwegian insurance company, and an editor for InfoQ. His agile team practice Scrum and Jon shares his experiences making web deployment a no-click affair. What are the tools and techniques you need to make your automated build automate deployment to a production web farm? NOTE: If you want to download our complete archives as a feed - that's all 230 shows, subscribe to the Complete MP3 Feed here . Subscribe: Download: MP3 Full Show Links from the Show No-Click Web Deployment - Part 1 No-Click Web Deployment – Part 2 – Web Deploy (a.k.a. msdeploy) Do also remember the complete archives are always up and they have PDF Transcripts , a little known feature...(read more)

Attention Denizens of Black Rock City

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 10:54 PM PDT

Our eye in the sky reports two angry evil (but devishly good looking) cyborg units, XSP 2000 and TRS-80, are fast approaching Black Rock City. They are considered very armed and dangerous. In fact, they are mostly armed and not much else. These cyborgs do not come in peace. I repeat, they are to be considerd hostiles. However, we've received a secret communiqué that reveals a weakness built into these cyborg models. Due to a lack of TDD during development, a bug in their FOF system (friend or foe) causes them to view anyone offering a frosty beverage to be a friend, not foe. Any attempts to engage with these hostiles will result in calamity unless you offer them an ice cold beverage. For the sake of your beloved city, I suggest stocking up....(read more)

GridView with Sort Arrows and Showing Header When Empty

Posted: 28 Aug 2010 07:02 PM PDT

One of the common things people want to do when displaying data with grid controls is to have the little up and down arrows next to the header columns to indicated what direction the data is being sorted in. You see this in Windows Explorer and many other programs. This has been traditionally something that is difficult to do with the GridView control in ASP.NET. If you search the internet you will find a variety of hacks to do this: Matt Berseth: Building a VS2008 Styled Grid with the GridView Control 4 Guys From From Rolla.com: Improving the Sort Arrows GridView Control Some of these implementations have various limitations such as they don't work if you use AutoGenerateColumns = true. In .NET 4 we addressed these problems by adding a couple...(read more)

Building my new blog with Orchard – Part 1

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 08:58 PM PDT

Several people have asked me if I would move my blog to Orchard . There are actually several challenges with this that have nothing to do with Orchard itself, but suffice it to say that right now I'm not really considering it. On the other hand, for a long time I've been wanting to create a second, more personal blog about movies, books, video games and opinions to clearly separate the software stuff from the rest. I've been posting several times on science , games and even on politics here but it always felt a little wrong and I felt obligated to tone it down seeing that this blog has a clear association with my employer, Microsoft. Anyway, the release of Orchard 0.5 looks like the perfect opportunity to create that new blog. I have big plans...(read more)

We’re Not Paid To Write Code

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 11:36 PM PDT

On Twitter yesterday I made the following comment : We're not here to write software, we're here to ship products and deliver value. Writing code is just a fulfilling means to that end :) All I see now is blonde, brunette, redhead. For the most part, I received a lot of tweets in agreement, but there were a few who disagreed with me: While I agree in principle, the stated sentiment "justifies" the pervasive lack of quality in development Doctors with this mentality don't investigate root causes, because patients don't define that as valuable That's BS. If you live only, or even primarily, for end results you're probably zombie. We're here to write code AND deliver value. I have no problem with people disagreeing...(read more)

PersistedSelection in Data Controls in .NET 4

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 09:55 PM PDT

We did a variety of small feature items across the data controls when we were working on .NET 4 and I'm going to do a couple of blog posts on some of this new functionality. When we were building Dynamic Data we made small enhancements to the data controls but they only worked when you were using Dynamic Data. In .NET 4 we took this functionality and made it work across all of our core data controls. Persisted Selection When using our data controls that support paging like GridView and ListView there is some funky behavior today. If the user selects the first row of data and then moves to the next page the first row of the data is selected. This behavior seems weird, especially when you are in a master detail scenario where you show the details...(read more)

Web Camps L.A.– Sold Out in 48 hours (UPDATED)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 04:29 PM PDT

****UPDATED 8/27/2010 2:20pm**** We have upgraded to a bigger room and there are currently tickets available for the Web Camp in LA. If you were on the wait list you will be automatically assigned a ticket.  If you've not yet signed up – make sure you do quickly ! We released the tickets just under 48 hours ago and Web Camp LA is sold out!  That's good and bad news, right?! For those of you who haven't yet signed up, don't be too distressed.  We are currently looking for a bigger room so that we can release some more tickets .  I'll post an update once we've secured the room – fingers crossed! Remember we are crowdsourcing the agenda – here's the poll results so far.  Looks like jQuery and ASP.NET MVC 101 is out in front...(read more)

Why aren't my WP7 ApplicationBar icons Displaying?

Posted: 13 Sep 2010 07:36 AM PDT

This is a real quick post about how I had problems with the ApplicationBar icons at the Windows Phone 7 Unleashed event last weekend, and how I resolved it with help. Take a quick look, you won't forget it later, and trust me, it will save you some time...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Client Developer Roundup 041 for 9/13/2010

Posted: 12 Sep 2010 11:52 PM PDT

This is Windows Client Developer roundup #41. The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF , Silverlight , Visual C++, XNA , Expression Blend , Surface , Windows 7, Windows Forms,...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Client Developer Roundup 041 for 9/13/2010

Posted: 12 Sep 2010 11:52 PM PDT

This is Windows Client Developer roundup #41. The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF , Silverlight , Visual C++, XNA , Expression Blend , Surface , Windows 7, Windows Forms,...( read more )...(read more)

Fixing Mixed-up Zune Imports of CD Tracks -- and WP7

Posted: 12 Sep 2010 11:13 PM PDT

I know I'm being a little proactive here, since it'll be months before real users have WP7 devices in their hot little hands, but... If you're a Zune or ZuneHD user, you probably already have had this problem, and WP7 folks will as well. The problem happens...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for September 12, 2010 -- #946

Posted: 12 Sep 2010 09:48 PM PDT

In this Issue: Michael Washington , Mike Talbot , Kunal Chowdhury , Nigel Sampson , Shawn Wildermuth , Andy Beaulieu , Beth Massi , Joost van Schaik , Beat Kiener ( -2- ), and priozersk . Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight Flip Control – page flipping...( read more )...(read more)

How Large Should Your Windows Phone 7 Apps Be?

Posted: 12 Sep 2010 01:02 PM PDT

I was having a conversation with Chris Tavares of the Patterns and Practices group (the Prism guys). We were talking about the future of Prism (et al.) and the topic of the Windows Phone 7 came up. While MEF, Prism and Unity might make an appearance on...( read more )...(read more)

Step-by-Step Guide to Silverlight Shape Controls

Posted: 12 Sep 2010 10:02 AM PDT

In my previous post " Introduction to Shapes in Silverlight 4 " I introduced you with various types of Shapes available in Silverlight 4 and informed you that, I will post an article describing each one of them and here it is.   In this article,...( read more )...(read more)
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