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Generate and Download Animated Progress Indicators for Free… Nothing to install!
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Of course, finding the proper downloads means dealing with the ever-shifting and hopelessly confusing MSDN web site.
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A significant page that seems focused on .NET is this one:
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Imagine this: you type in a table name in SQL Server Management Studio, press Ctrl+9 and get all rows from that table displayed in the results pane. Or you press Ctrl+8 and instead of data rows, you get metadata about columns of that table.
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Perhaps it’s because sending error info to the server has been challenging in the past, or may be it’s because some developers are just not aware that JavaScript does have exception handling support…
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More progress indicators
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From within Internet Explorer, click on Tools and then on Internet Options. Now click on the Advanced tab, and under the Browser section make sure Enable Install On Demand (Internet Explorer) and enable Install On Demand (other) are not checked. This wou
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Both, BizTalk server and .NET Windows Workflow Foundation (WinWF) provide design tools to build a process workflow. So, what product/technology is right for you? Below are some questions I go through when making such decision on my projects.
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[converted to Unicode] Did you know that the “best practiceâ€� in terms of font sizes is to use em not px? Interested? Then read on…
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Welcome to System.Diagnostics.TraceSource class. TraceSource class allows you, for example, to output trace messages for one class but not another.
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There are several reasons that could cause a query or updates to take longer then expected. This could be due to network issues or it could even be due to the database design itself, but most of the time slow running queries are caused due to:
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Agile Manifesto (
http://AgileManifesto.org):
– Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
– Working software over comprehensive documentation
– Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
– Responding to change over following a plan
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Now, the answer to the question on the topic line is “No”. Yes, they both make it possible to create parameterized types which make it possible to create type safe collections. But
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The only “gotcha” is that those columns must be full-text indexed
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As a rule of thumb, make a best guestimate on the resulting object size, and initialize the StringBuilder with the double of that.
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The ?? operator defines the default value to be returned when a nullable type is assigned to a non-nullable type.
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Eliminate the impedance mismatch between data models and between languages that application developers would otherwise have to deal with new features available in the upcoming version of ADO.NET.
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The Immediate window is used at design time to debug and evaluate expressions, execute statements, print variable values, and so forth. It allows you to enter expressions to be evaluated or executed by the development language during debugging. To display
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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 a
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For example, the following “pullout quote” could be done by applying a simple style
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