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Small Basic – Now with SilverLight

2010-03-09T00:37:00Z

Some very cool news from the Microsoft Small Basic team: (Quoted from MSDN blog, URL is posted below article) Monday, March 08, 2010 7:42 PM vijayeg Small Basic – Now with SilverLight One Program, Two Platforms! Did you know that with Small Basic v0.8 , you can write a program or a game and have it run identically on both your desktop and the browser? This makes it super easy to share your games with your friends (even those that may be running a Mac). In fact it is so easy that you can have your...(read more)

DiscountASP.NET Launches SQL Server Profiling as a Service

2010-03-06T23:53:55Z

DiscountASP.NET announces enhancing our SQL Server hosting with the launch of SQL Server Profiling as a service. SQL Profiler is a powerful tool that allows the application and database developer to troubleshoot general SQL locking problems, performance issues, and perform database tuning. With our SQL Profiling as a Service customers can schedule a database trace at a specific time of their choosing and offers a new way to help our customers troubleshoot. For more information, visit: http://www...(read more)

Free ASP.NET 4.0 Hosting (beta 2) Sandbox now available!

2009-11-12T23:01:00Z

November 12 *Free* ASP.NET 4.0 Hosting (beta 2) Sandbox now available! You have been asking for it, and it is finally available; a .NET 4.0 beta hosting sandbox! Signup is easy, just go to the DiscountASP.NET labs page and follow the link. The number of accounts on the .NET 4.0 beta server are strictly limited, so if you are interested you should sign up today. This is a public beta , so you do not have to be a current DiscountASP.NET customer to take advantage of the offer. We are including MS SQL2008...(read more)

Wow, Excel Q/A article overload

2009-09-23T23:46:00Z

Awesome post today from the Microsoft Excel team… Adding Every Other Cell in a Column Today’s author is Bill Jelen, author of 24 books on Microsoft Office Excel. He is a regular guest on TechTV with Leo Laporte and the host of MrExcel.com , which includes more than 300,000 questions and answers about Excel. Jenny asks "Is there a quick way of adding every other cell ?, I have a column of about 250 cells, and I have to select them manually using Ctrl. Can you help ?" Jenny, this is a matter...(read more)

Microsoft NAV 2009 Auto deployment to Client

2009-09-19T23:09:00Z

Freddy Kristiansen, PM Architect on the Microsoft Dynamics NAV team, just posted an awesome article about a very handy tool you can D/L right now called ComponentHelper. Scenario: When you install the RoleTailored Client on a number of clients, you might need to install a number of Client side components as well. This might not sound as too much of a problem when you need to install the client anyway – but lets say you install an ISV Add-on with a live customer, who already have 100 clients install...(read more)

Microsoft spotlight: MVP Deborah Kurata

2009-08-19T23:55:18Z

I’ve been keeping an eye on Deborah’s MSMVPS blog and am amazed. Deborah is posting some awesome code examples in both C# and VB. Take a look and be sure to subscribe to the RSS feed for more. Processing Files Using Anonymous Types Anonymous Types- An Introduction Defining Lists of Anonymous Types Counting Words in a String Using Anonymous Types Using Linq with Microsoft Word and Excel DAL- Save Data Using a Stored Procedure...(read more)

Announcing Sync Framework 2.0 CTP2

2009-06-04T23:14:00Z

Love the new Database features...Awesome! Announcing Sync Framework 2.0 CTP2 I am extremely happy to announce the availability of Sync Framework 2.0 CTP2 . Sync Framework 2.0 expands on the capabilities offered by Sync Framework 1.0: Adds features that cater to new scenarios or scenarios that were difficult to support. Reduces the amount of work required to develop providers. Supports more data sources with new built-in providers. The major new features included in this CTP are: New database providers...(read more)

PowerShell and SQL Server 2008

2009-06-04T11:28:00Z

The Msft Scripting Guys rock! ;-) First of all . . .Did you know you can Email your Microsoft Scripting questions to them? -> scripter@microsoft.com , Subject: "Hey, Scripting Guy!" Additional Resources • Hey, Scripting Guy! Archive by Category • Hey, Scripting Guy! Archive by Date • Hey, Scripting Guy! Download Now to the topic at hand. . . How Does Windows PowerShell Make It Easier to Work with SQL Server 2008? Hey, Scripting Guy! I am a SQL database administrator, and in the past...(read more)