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  • Tool to export Microsoft project to website?

    - by Rory
    Just wondering does anyone know of a free/open source tool that take a Microsoft project file and export it to HTML? I know you can save a project file as HTML, so wanted a tool that would do this automatically? Maybe also displaying graphs/gantt chart as well? If not, any ideas of how I would write a program to do this, preferably in java? I know of Aspose.Tasks (http://www.aspose.com/categories/.net-components/aspose.tasks-for-.net/default.aspx), which can export projects files to gantt charts in png format, but it's not free and is only available in C#.

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  • Having trouble compiling with GDI+ (VC++ 2008)

    - by user146780
    I just simply include gdiplus.h and get all these errors: Warning 32 warning C4229: anachronism used : modifiers on data are ignored c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 1133 Warning 38 warning C4229: anachronism used : modifiers on data are ignored c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 1139 Warning 49 warning C4229: anachronism used : modifiers on data are ignored c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 1286 Warning 55 warning C4229: anachronism used : modifiers on data are ignored c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 1292 Warning 61 warning C4229: anachronism used : modifiers on data are ignored c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 2224 Warning 68 warning C4229: anachronism used : modifiers on data are ignored c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 2262 Warning 74 warning C4229: anachronism used : modifiers on data are ignored c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 2310 Warning 82 warning C4229: anachronism used : modifiers on data are ignored c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 2321 Error 112 fatal error C1003: error count exceeds 100; stopping compilation c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusmetafile.h 236 Error 1 error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusimaging.h 74 Error 7 error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusimaging.h 280 Error 8 error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusimaging.h 280 Error 94 error C2761: '{ctor}' : member function redeclaration not allowed c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusmetafile.h 195 Error 102 error C2761: '{ctor}' : member function redeclaration not allowed c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusmetafile.h 212 Error 110 error C2761: '{ctor}' : member function redeclaration not allowed c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusmetafile.h 231 Error 21 error C2535: 'Gdiplus::Metafile::Metafile(void)' : member function already defined or declared c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusheaders.h 813 Error 23 error C2535: 'Gdiplus::Metafile::Metafile(void)' : member function already defined or declared c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusheaders.h 820 Error 25 error C2535: 'Gdiplus::Metafile::Metafile(void)' : member function already defined or declared c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusheaders.h 829 Error 27 error C2535: 'Gdiplus::Metafile::Metafile(void)' : member function already defined or declared c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusheaders.h 923 Error 16 error C2535: 'Gdiplus::Image::Image(void)' : member function already defined or declared c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusheaders.h 471 Error 4 error C2470: 'IImageBytes' : looks like a function definition, but there is no parameter list; skipping apparent body c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusimaging.h 74 Error 89 error C2448: 'Gdiplus::Metafile::{ctor}' : function-style initializer appears to be a function definition c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusmetafile.h 76 Error 97 error C2447: '{' : missing function header (old-style formal list?) c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusmetafile.h 199 Error 105 error C2447: '{' : missing function header (old-style formal list?) c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusmetafile.h 218 Error 2 error C2440: 'initializing' : cannot convert from 'const char [37]' to 'int' c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusimaging.h 74 Error 72 error C2275: 'HDC' : illegal use of this type as an expression c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 2310 Error 76 error C2275: 'HDC' : illegal use of this type as an expression c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 2310 Error 80 error C2275: 'HDC' : illegal use of this type as an expression c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 2321 Error 84 error C2275: 'HDC' : illegal use of this type as an expression c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 2321 Error 92 error C2275: 'HDC' : illegal use of this type as an expression c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusmetafile.h 195 Error 100 error C2275: 'HDC' : illegal use of this type as an expression c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusmetafile.h 212 Error 108 error C2275: 'HDC' : illegal use of this type as an expression c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusmetafile.h 231 Error 60 error C2275: 'Gdiplus::MetafileHeader' : illegal use of this type as an expression c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 2224 Error 67 error C2275: 'Gdiplus::GpMetafile' : illegal use of this type as an expression c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 2262 Error 31 error C2275: 'Gdiplus::GpImage' : illegal use of this type as an expression c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 1133 Error 37 error C2275: 'Gdiplus::GpImage' : illegal use of this type as an expression c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 1139 Error 48 error C2275: 'Gdiplus::GpBitmap' : illegal use of this type as an expression c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 1286 Error 54 error C2275: 'Gdiplus::GpBitmap' : illegal use of this type as an expression c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 1292 Error 3 error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'IImageBytes' c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusimaging.h 74 Error 6 error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'id' c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusimaging.h 280 Error 73 error C2146: syntax error : missing ')' before identifier 'referenceHdc' c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 2310 Error 81 error C2146: syntax error : missing ')' before identifier 'referenceHdc' c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 2321 Error 93 error C2146: syntax error : missing ')' before identifier 'referenceHdc' c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusmetafile.h 195 Error 101 error C2146: syntax error : missing ')' before identifier 'referenceHdc' c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusmetafile.h 212 Error 109 error C2146: syntax error : missing ')' before identifier 'referenceHdc' c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusmetafile.h 231 Error 96 error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before '{' c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusmetafile.h 199 Error 104 error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before '{' c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusmetafile.h 218 Error 33 error C2078: too many initializers c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 1133 Error 39 error C2078: too many initializers c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 1139 Error 50 error C2078: too many initializers c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 1286 Error 56 error C2078: too many initializers c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 1292 Error 62 error C2078: too many initializers c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 2224 Error 69 error C2078: too many initializers c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 2262 Error 75 error C2078: too many initializers c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 2310 Error 83 error C2078: too many initializers c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 2321 Error 29 error C2065: 'stream' : undeclared identifier c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 1133 Error 35 error C2065: 'stream' : undeclared identifier c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 1139 Error 46 error C2065: 'stream' : undeclared identifier c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 1286 Error 52 error C2065: 'stream' : undeclared identifier c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 1292 Error 58 error C2065: 'stream' : undeclared identifier c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 2222 Error 65 error C2065: 'stream' : undeclared identifier c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 2262 Error 71 error C2065: 'stream' : undeclared identifier c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 2309 Error 79 error C2065: 'stream' : undeclared identifier c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 2320 Error 88 error C2065: 'stream' : undeclared identifier c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusmetafile.h 75 Error 91 error C2065: 'stream' : undeclared identifier c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusmetafile.h 194 Error 99 error C2065: 'stream' : undeclared identifier c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusmetafile.h 211 Error 107 error C2065: 'stream' : undeclared identifier c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusmetafile.h 230 Error 66 error C2065: 'metafile' : undeclared identifier c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 2262 Error 28 error C2065: 'IStream' : undeclared identifier c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 1133 Error 34 error C2065: 'IStream' : undeclared identifier c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 1139 Error 45 error C2065: 'IStream' : undeclared identifier c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 1286 Error 51 error C2065: 'IStream' : undeclared identifier c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 1292 Error 57 error C2065: 'IStream' : undeclared identifier c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 2222 Error 64 error C2065: 'IStream' : undeclared identifier c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 2262 Error 70 error C2065: 'IStream' : undeclared identifier c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 2309 Error 78 error C2065: 'IStream' : undeclared identifier c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 2320 Error 87 error C2065: 'IStream' : undeclared identifier c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusmetafile.h 75 Error 90 error C2065: 'IStream' : undeclared identifier c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusmetafile.h 194 Error 98 error C2065: 'IStream' : undeclared identifier c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusmetafile.h 211 Error 106 error C2065: 'IStream' : undeclared identifier c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusmetafile.h 230 Error 30 error C2065: 'image' : undeclared identifier c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 1133 Error 36 error C2065: 'image' : undeclared identifier c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 1139 Error 59 error C2065: 'header' : undeclared identifier c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 2224 Error 47 error C2065: 'bitmap' : undeclared identifier c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 1286 Error 53 error C2065: 'bitmap' : undeclared identifier c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 1292 Error 12 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'PROPID' c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusheaders.h 443 Error 13 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'PROPID' c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusheaders.h 444 Error 14 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'PROPID' c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusheaders.h 445 Error 15 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'PROPID' c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusheaders.h 453 Error 41 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'PROPID' c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 1244 Error 42 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'PROPID' c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 1247 Error 43 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'PROPID' c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 1250 Error 44 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'PROPID' c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 1262 Error 9 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IStream' c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusheaders.h 384 Error 10 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IStream' c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusheaders.h 395 Error 11 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IStream' c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusheaders.h 405 Error 17 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IStream' c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusheaders.h 505 Error 18 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IStream' c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusheaders.h 516 Error 19 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IStream' c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusheaders.h 758 Error 20 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IStream' c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusheaders.h 813 Error 22 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IStream' c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusheaders.h 820 Error 24 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IStream' c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusheaders.h 829 Error 26 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IStream' c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusheaders.h 855 Error 40 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IStream' c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 1156 Error 63 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IStream' c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 2242 Error 86 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'byte' c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdipluspath.h 133 Error 5 error C2059: syntax error : 'public' c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusimaging.h 74 Error 77 error C2059: syntax error : ')' c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 2316 Error 85 error C2059: syntax error : ')' c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusflat.h 2327 Error 95 error C2059: syntax error : ')' c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusmetafile.h 198 Error 103 error C2059: syntax error : ')' c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusmetafile.h 217 Error 111 error C2059: syntax error : ')' c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0\include\gdiplusmetafile.h 236 I tried updating my sdk to 7.0 but it did not help. I'm not even making any calls to the API. Thanks

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  • SQLAuthority News – Feature Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP4

    - by pinaldave
    If you are still using SQL Server 2005 – I suggest that you consider migrating to later version of the SQL Server 2008/2008 R2. Due to any reason, you wanted to continue using SQL Server 2005, I suggest that you take a look at the Feature Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP4. There are many different tools and features available in pack, which can be very handy and can solve issues. Microsoft ADOMD.NET Microsoft Core XML Services (MSXML) 6.0 Microsoft OLEDB Provider for DB2 Microsoft SQL Server Management Pack for MOM 2005 Microsoft SQL Server 2000 PivotTable Services Microsoft SQL Server 2000 DTS Designer Components Microsoft SQL Server Native Client Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services 9.0 OLE DB Provider Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Backward Compatibility Components Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Command Line Query Utility Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Datamining Viewer Controls Microsoft SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Management Objects Collection Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Notification Services Client Components Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Upgrade Advisor Microsoft .NET Data Provider for mySAP Business Suite, Preview Version Reporting Add-In for Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Microsoft Exception Message Box Data Mining Managed Plug-in Algorithm API for SQL Server 2005 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Data Mining Add-ins for Microsoft Office 2007 SQL Server 2005 Performance Dashboard Reports SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer Download Feature Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP4 Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.sqlauthority.com) Filed under: SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Documentation, SQL Download, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Service Pack, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology

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  • When importing an Access table into Excel, a look-up column is showing all values as numbers

    - by user3651997
    I have a basic Access to Excel question that has me frustrated. I have two Access 2010 data tables. One is a list of managers. The primary key is a manager ID (which is an autonumber because managers can have the same name), and each row also has manager name, manager email, etc. The second data table is a list of departments. The primary key for each row is a unique department code, and the foreign key is a manager ID (autonumber). I used the Look-up Wizard to create this connection. However, Access does not show the manager ID in the foreign key location. It shows Manager Name like I requested when I used the Look-up Wizard. Now I am trying to import the second table (departments) into Excel 2010. I clicked import from Access, chose the Department table, and everything popped into Excel. BUT, the Manager Name column is showing Manager ID instead. So I have a list of numbers instead of names. How can I make Excel show what I see in Access? Thanks!

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  • 10 Quick Tips to Get the Most from Microsoft Office

    - by Lori Kaufman
    We have published some useful tips and tricks for getting the most out of Office 2010 and 2007. This article compiles 10 of the best tips and tricks we have covered. How to See What Web Sites Your Computer is Secretly Connecting To HTG Explains: When Do You Need to Update Your Drivers? How to Make the Kindle Fire Silk Browser *Actually* Fast!

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  • How to Add the Windows Calculator to the Quick Access Toolbar in Microsoft Excel 2013

    - by Lori Kaufman
    Do you use the Windows Calculator to perform quick calculations while building spreadsheets in Excel? You can save time by adding the Calculator to the Quick Access Toolbar in Excel so you don’t have to leave the program to access the Calculator. To do this, click the down arrow on the right side of the Quick Access Toolbar and select More Commands from the drop-down menu. On the Quick Access Toolbar screen on the Excel Options dialog box, select Commands Not in the Ribbon from the Choose commands from drop-down list. Scroll down in the long list and select Calculator. Click Add to add the Calculator to the Quick Access Toolbar. Click OK to accept the change and close the Excel Options dialog box. You’ll see a Calculator icon on the Quick Access Toolbar. When you move your mouse over the icon, a hint displays saying “Custom.” Despite the label, when you click the icon, the Windows Calculator opens. The same procedure works for adding the Windows Calculator to Excel 2010, as well.     

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  • How does Microsoft Word And Excel Run without any installation?

    - by Sathya
    I was having a discussion on bookmarks in Word with a friend, and he suggested me to check out his implementation of a query in Word. Since I did not have Microsoft Word installed, I told him I don't have Word so I won't be able to test it. To this, he mentioned that he'll send the executables and it will work - I argued that without an installation this will fail. I was rather shocked when he sent me the standalone executables and on running them, Word actually launched and I was able to use almost every functionality o_0 How's this possible? I've never installed Microsoft Office on my system, this isn't any "portable" app or VMWare ThinStall ( thanks nhinkle, didn't know about this). There are absolutely no Microsoft Office related files - except for winword.exe and excel.exe. Curiously even Microsoft Excel works fine with just the standalone executable. winword.exe size is about 38 MB, and excel.exe size is just 35kb, which makes it even more strange. I'm running on Windows XP, the files were from Office 2003. I was discussing this on Chat prior to posting, here's the conversation

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  • Weekend reading: Microsoft/Oracle and SkyDrive based code-editor

    - by jamiet
    A couple of news item caught my eye this weekend that I think are worthy of comment. Microsoft/Oracle partnership to be announced tomorrow (24/06/2013) According to many news site Microsoft and Oracle are about to announce a partnership (Oracle set for major Microsoft, Salesforce, Netsuite partnerships) and they all seem to be assuming that it will be something to do with “the cloud”. I wouldn’t disagree with that assessment, Microsoft are heavily pushing Azure and Oracle seem (to me anyway) to be rather lagging behind in the cloud game. More specifically folks seem to be assuming that Oracle’s forthcoming 12c database release will be offered on Azure. I did a bit of reading about Oracle 12c and one of its key pillars appears to be that it supports multi-tenant topologies and multi-tenancy is a common usage scenario for databases in the cloud. I’m left wondering then, if Microsoft are willing to push a rival’s multi-tenant solution what is happening to its own cloud-based multi-tenant offering – SQL Azure Federations. We haven’t heard anything about federations for what now seems to be a long time and moreover the main Program Manager behind the technology, Cihan Biyikoglu, recently left Microsoft to join Twitter. Furthermore, a Principle Architect for SQL Server, Conor Cunningham, recently presented the opening keynote at SQLBits 11 where he talked about multi-tenant solutions on SQL Azure and not once did he mention federations. All in all I don’t have a warm fuzzy feeling about the future of SQL Azure Federations so I hope that that question gets asked at some point following the Microsoft/Oracle announcement. Text Editor on SkyDrive with coding-specific features Liveside.net got a bit of a scoop this weekend with the news (Exclusive: SkyDrive.com to get web-based text file editing features) that Microsoft’s consumer-facing file storage service is going to get a new feature – a web-based code editor. Here’s Liveside’s screenshot: I’ve long had a passing interest in online code editors, indeed back in December 2009 I wondered out loud on this blog site: I started to wonder when the development tools that we use would also become cloud-based. After all, if we’re using cloud-based services does it not make sense to have cloud-based tools that work with them? I think it does. Project Houston Since then the world has moved on. Cloud 9 IDE (https://c9.io/) have blazed a trail in the fledgling world of online code editors and I have been wondering when Microsoft were going to start playing catch-up. I had no doubt that an online code editor was in Microsoft’s future; its an obvious future direction, why would I want to have to download and install a bloated text editor (which, arguably, is exactly what Visual Studio amounts to) and have to continually update it when I can simply open a web browser and have ready access to all of my code from wherever I am. There are signs that Microsoft is already making moves in this direction, after all the URL for their new offering Team Foundation Service doesn’t mention TFS at all – my own personalised URL for Team Foundation Service is http://jamiet.visualstudio.com – using “Visual Studio” as the domain name for a service that isn’t strictly speaking part of Visual Studio leads me to think that there’s a much bigger play here and that one day http://visualstudio.com will house an online code editor. With that in mind then I find Liveside’s revelation rather intriguing, why would a code editing tool show up in Skydrive? Perhaps SkyDrive is going to get integrated more tightly into TFS, I’m very interested to see where this goes. The larger question playing on my mind though is whether an online code editor from Microsoft will support SQL Server developers. I have opined before (see The SQL developer gap) about the shoddy treatment that SQL Server developers have to experience from Microsoft and I haven’t seen any change in Microsoft’s attitude in the three and a half years since I wrote that post. I’m constantly bewildered by the lack of investment in SQL Server developer productivity compared to the riches that are lavished upon our appdev brethren. When you consider that SQL Server is Microsoft’s third biggest revenue stream it is, frankly, rather insulting. SSDT was a step in the right direction but the hushed noises I hear coming out of Microsoft of late in regard to SSDT don’t bode fantastically well for its future. So, will an online code editor from Microsoft support T-SQL development? I have to assume not given the paucity of investment on us lowly SQL Server developers over the last few years, but I live in hope! Your thoughts in the comments section please. I would be very interested in reading them. @Jamiet

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  • Microsoft Press Weekend Deal 26/May/2012 - Microsoft® Manual of Style, 4th Edition

    - by TATWORTH
    At http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0790145305770.do?code=MSDEAL, Microsoft Press are offering the Microsoft® Manual of Style, 4th Edition as a PDF for 50% off using the MSDEAL code."Maximize the impact and precision of your message! Now in its fourth edition, the Microsoft Manual of Style provides essential guidance to content creators, journalists, technical writers, editors, and everyone else who writes about computer technology. Direct from the Editorial Style Board at Microsoft—you get a comprehensive glossary of both general technology terms and those specific to Microsoft; clear, concise usage and style guidelines with helpful examples and alternatives; guidance on grammar, tone, and voice; and best practices for writing content for the web, optimizing for accessibility, and communicating to a worldwide audience. Fully updated and optimized for ease of use, the Microsoft Manual of Style is designed to help you communicate clearly, consistently, and accurately about technical topics—across a range of audiences and media." There is a sample chapter for free download at the above link

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  • AxCMS.net 10 with Microsoft Silverlight 4 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

    - by Axinom
    Axinom, European WCM vendor, today announced the next version of its WCM solution AxCMS.net 10, which streamlines the processes involved in creating, managing and distributing corporate content on the internet. The new solution helps reducing ongoing costs for managing and distributing to large audiences, while at the same time drastically reducing time-to-market and one-time setup costs. http://www.AxCMS.net Axinom’s WCM portfolio, based on the Microsoft .NET Framework 4, Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft Silverlight 4, allows enterprises to increase process efficiency, reduce operating costs and more effectively manage delivery of rich media assets on the Web and mobile devices. Axinom solutions are widely used by major European online brands in IT, telco, retail, media and entertainment industries such as Siemens, American Express, Microsoft Corp., ZDF, Pro7Sat1 Media, and Deutsche Post. Brand New User Interface built with Silverlight 4By using Silverlight 4, Axinom’s team created a new user interface for AxCMS.net 10 that is optimized for improved usability and speed. WYSIWYG mode, integrated image editor, extended list views, and detail views of objects allow a substantial acceleration of typical editor tasks. Axinom’s team worked with Silverlight Rough Cut Editor for video management and Silverlight Analytics Framework for extended reporting to complete the wide range of capabilities included in the new release. “Axinom’s release of AxCMS.net 10 enables developers to take advantage of the latest features in Silverlight 4,” said Brian Goldfarb, director of the developer platform group at Microsoft Corp. “Microsoft is excited about the opportunity this creates for Web developers to streamline the creating, managing and distributing of online corporate content using AxCMS.net 10 and Silverlight.” Rapid Web Development with Visual Studio 2010AxCMS.net 10 is extended by additional products that enable developers to get productive quickly and help solve typical customer scenarios. AxCMS.net template projects come with documented source code that help kick-start projects and learn best practices in all aspects of Web application development. AxCMS.net overcomes many hard-to-solve technical obstacles in an out-of-the-box manner by providing a set of ready-to-use vertical solutions such as corporate Web site, Web shop, Web campaign management, email marketing, multi-channel distribution, management of rich Internet applications, and Web business intelligence. Extended Multi-Site ManagementAxCMS.net has been supporting the management of an unlimited number of Web sites for a long time. The new version 10 of AxCMS.net will further improve multi-site management and provide features to editors and developers that will simplify and accelerate multi-site and multi-language management. Extended publication workflow will take into account additional dependencies of dynamic objects, pages, and documents. “The customer requests evolved from static html pages to dynamic Web applications content with the emergence of rich media assets seamlessly combined across many channels including Web, mobile and IPTV. With the.NET Framework 4 and Silverlight 4, we’re on the fast track to making the three screen strategy a reality for our customers,” said Damir Tomicic, CEO of Axinom Group. “Our customers enjoy substantial competitive advantages of using latest Microsoft technologies. We have a long-standing, relationship with Microsoft and are committed to continued development using Microsoft tools and technologies to deliver innovative Web solutions in the future.”  

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  • Troubleshooting Microsoft Message Queuing Issues on Microsoft Lync Server 2010

    - by John Breakwell
    This blog post sounds specific but most of the troubleshooting tips can be applied to other scenarios: Troubleshooting Microsoft Message Queuing Issues on Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) plays an important role in the Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Monitoring/Archiving server infrastructure: in a distributed network environment, MSMQ is used to transmit data from agents located on other servers (such as Front End Servers) to Monitoring/Archiving servers. The purpose of this article is to help you discover the root cause of any MSMQ problems that you might encounter, and to provide suggested ways to fix those problems. Microsoft Lync Server is the new name for Microsoft Office Communications Server. It’s good to see a major product make use of MSMQ – there aren’t many in the public eye (Symantec’s Enterprise Vault comes to mind).

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  • How can I modify the "Picture Styles" shortcut gallery in Microsoft Office (Word and Powerpoint, specifically)?

    - by todorojo
    The Microsoft Office Ribbon has a convenient gallery of styles to apply to pictures, shown here. It functions much like the Quick Styles gallery in Word for quickly applying formatting to text. But whereas one can create a new text style and add it to the Quick Styles gallery, I haven't been able to find a way to do the same with the Picture Styles gallery. The default styles aren't what I need, and the styles I do need involve changing multiple settings, so a shortcut would be nice. Am I stuck just using the copy-paste format options?

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  • Webcasts con TechNet Latam Windows Server y Windows 7

    - by David Nudelman
    La gente de Microsoft TechNet LATAM me invitó a presentar 3 webcasts sobre Windows Server 2008 R2 e implementación de Windows 7, temas que tengo bastante familiaridad. Os dejo la información y el enlace de registro. 25 de Mayo - 2:30 PM-4:00 PM (UTC-05:00) Webcast TechNet: "Una demo para conocer Windows Server 2008 R2" 26 de Mayo - 2:30 PM-4:00 PM (UTC-05:00) Webcast TechNet: "Serie Cómo hacer: Determinación de la mejor opción de implementación y herramientas que se deben utilizar con sus clientes" 1 de Junio - 1:30 PM-3:00 PM (UTC-05:00) Webcast TechNet: "Implementación rápida - Cambio de clientes de XP a Win7 fácil y rápido" Saludos, David Nudelman Technorati Tags: webcasts,server 2008 r2,windows 7,mvp

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  • Great finds: More TechNet Survival Guides

    - by Enrique Lima
    It has been some time now since Windows Server 2008 R2 arrived, but the features and capabilities in many cases are just now starting to surface with company’s implementing or looking at using. Here is a link to the Survival Guide on TechNet: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/windows-server-2008-r2-survival-guide.aspx The other item that is coming stronger and stronger is PowerShell.  I mentioned before the need to learn and get into using it as it is a great tool. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/windows-powershell-survival-guide.aspx

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  • Microsoft releases Bing iPhone app

    As its officials have been hinting and promising for a while now, Microsoft announced it has developed a version of its Bing search app for the iPhone. The new Bing app is available on the iPhone app store as of tonight (December 15). Microsoft already offers Bing on a number of mobile phones, and has a five-year deal with Verizon to provide Bing on a number of phones available to Verizon Wireless customers. A mobile version of Bing already is available for Windows Mobile, Blackberry, BREW and Sidekick devices on Verizon. In other Bing news, Microsoft has finally hit the 10 percent market share mark with Bing, according to the November U.S. search share data from comScore. Bing’s growth is continuing to come at the expense of Yahoo, not Google. Update: To those wondering why Microsoft would deliver a version of Continue... span.fullpost {display:none;}

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  • SQLAuthority News – Top 5 Latest Microsoft Certifications of 2013 – Guest Post

    - by Pinal Dave
    With the IT job market getting more and more competent by the day, certifications are a must for anyone who wishes to get a strong foothold in the industry. Microsoft community comes up with regular updates and enhancements in its existing products to keep up with the rapidly evolving requirements of the ICT industry. We bring you a list of five latest Microsoft certifications that you must consider acquiring this year. MCSE: SharePoint Learn all about Windows Server 2012 and Microsoft SharePoint 2013, which brings an advanced set of features to the fore in this latest version. It introduces new capabilities for business intelligence, social media, branding, search, identity management, mobile device among other features. Enjoy a great user experience with sharing and collaboration in community forum, within a pixel-perfect SharePoint website. Data connectivity and business intelligence tools allow users to process and access data, analyze reports, share and collaborate with each other more conveniently. Microsoft Specialist: Microsoft Project 2013 The only project management system that works seamlessly with other applications and cloud solutions of Microsoft, MS Project 2013 offers more than what meets the eye.  It provides for easier management and monitoring of projects so that users can ensure timely delivery while improving the productivity significantly. So keep all your projects on track and collaborate with your team like never before with this enhanced release! This one’s a must for all project managers. MCSE Messaging Another one of Microsoft gems is its messaging environment which has also launched the latest release Microsoft Exchange Server 2013. Messaging administrators can take up this training and validate their expertise in Unified Messaging, Exchange Online, PowerShell and Virtualization strategies, through MCSE Messaging certification in Exchange Server. If you wish to enhance productivity and data security of your organization while being flexible and extremely efficient, this is the right certification for you. MCSE Communication An enterprise can function optimally on the strength of its information flow and communication systems. With Lync Server 2013, you can introduce a whole new world of unified communications which consists of audio/video conferencing, dial-in, Persistent Chat, instant chat, and EDGE services in your organization. Utilize IT to serve and support business objectives by mastering this UC technology with this latest MCSE Communication course on using Microsoft Lync Server 2013. MCSE: SQL Server 2012 BI Platform The decision making process is largely influenced by underlying enterprise information used by the management for business intelligence. Therefore, a robust business intelligence platform that anchors enterprise IT and transform it to operational efficiencies is the need of the hour. SQL Server 2012 BI Platform certification helps professionals implement, manage and maintain a BI database infrastructure effectively. IT professionals with BI skills are highly sought after these days. MCSD: Windows Store Apps A Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer certification in Windows Store Apps validates your potential in designing interactive apps. Learn The Essentials of Developing Windows Store Apps using HTML5 and JavaScript and establish yourself as an ace developer capable of creating fast and fluid Metro style apps for Windows 8 that are accessible on a variety of devices. You can also go ahead and Learn Essentials of Developing Windows Store Apps using C# mode if you’re already familiar and working with C# programming language. Hence the developers are free to choose their own favorite development stream which opens doors for them to get ready for the latest and exciting application development platform called Windows store apps. Software developers with these skills are in great demand in the industry today. In order to continue being competitive in your respective fields, it is imperative that IT personnel update their knowledge on a regular basis. Certifications are a means to achieve this goal. Not considered to be an optional pre-requisite anymore, major IT certifications such as these are now essential to stay afloat in a cut-throat industry where technologies change on a daily basis. This blog is written by Aruneet Anand of Koenig Solutions. Koenig Solutions does training for all of the above courses. For more information, visit the website. Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.sqlauthority.com) Filed under: PostADay, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology Tagged: Microsoft Certifications

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  • SanjayP&rsquo;s venture after Microsoft involves no Microsoft

    - by eddraper
    When I was at Microsoft, I always found Sanjay Parthasarathy to be a bright and passionate leader.  While he was a bit disconnected at times with what was really going on out in the trenches, I always thought he was true believer in what we in Developer Platform and Evangelism (DPE) were doing.  He got it.  He had started DPE and kicked a lot of doors down up in Redmond to make it happen.  Back in the early 2000s, battles over platform choices at large customers was trench warfare… bayonets and hand grenades at the P-Code level.  This model was not at all suited to Microsoft’s org structure at the time.  While there were plenty of people fully able to have competitive conversations around Windows Server, or AD, or Exchange, or the desktop, there weren’t many that could have deep technical conversations around Java vs .NET and the platform “stack” as a cohesive, unified unit of value.  This task fell to DPE. Sanjay ended up leaving Microsoft a number of months before me in 2009 and I remember thinking these exact words: “holy shit, SanjayP left Microsoft.”  When SanjayP left DPE years before that,  Sheila Gulati had stepped into his shoes and I thought we where starting to miss a beat.  Sheila had built an amazing business at Microsoft India, but I don’t recall being inspired by her as a leader.  SanjayP’s talks felt like the opening scene of “Patton” with George C. Scott pacing in front of the American flag.  Sheila was a voice on a con-call.  When she moved on in 2007, Walid Abu-Hadba was given the reigns.  Personally, I don’t ever recall even seeing his face.  I think I might recall hearing his voice on some con-calls, but for all intents and purposes he was invisible to me.  Perhaps this was the beginning of my carelessness around seeking “visibility.” Fast forward to Build 2011.  First off, we have no PDC – we have Build.  Microsoft had made an 11 year investment by this time in building an organization to make its technology relevant to developers.  One would think such an org would be in the driver’s seat of such an event, but we see Windows product group people on the podiums.  Watching, I could see the messaging unfold… but no story.  It was like the old days.  Demos and PowerPoints by team members building the tech, and in many cases VPs.  The ensuing confusion is almost legendary now.  Windows 8 was, and is, a pretty big deal… but who is telling the story – not just features and benefits, but the story around how it all fits together. Having been out of Microsoft for two years now, and looking in, I can only conclude that the “DPE of old” has at best been emasculated, and at worst been completely marginalized by internal politics, or perhaps the eternal march of the corporate entropy generator that resides at all large companies.  I don’t think this is a good thing for anyone. And now, back to Sanjay who is the father of Microsoft DPE… I noticed that he has moved back to India and is doing start-up work.  His current company Indix looks to be doing some interesting things with “big data” and here’s their stack: Nary a trace of anything Microsoft.  What could account for this?  I wonder….  Better availability of labor and expertise in India for this stack?  Donno, but even in India, leet R and Hadoop skills have to be hard to find. Technical superiority?  This, I sincerely doubt. This stack, with SanjayP’s name as CEO leaves me with an unsettling feeling.  If he did believe, he no longer does.  One doesn’t place bets with real money on things they don’t believe in.  Perhaps he never did believe, and was a corporate creature seeking to find a niche for himself after which he manipulated me and others.  Or perhaps… anger… be it passive aggression or an outright “in your face F*** you” to his former masters. I guess in the end, only he knows the true reason… But I have my theory...

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  • Microsoft and jQuery

    - by Rick Strahl
    The jQuery JavaScript library has been steadily getting more popular and with recent developments from Microsoft, jQuery is also getting ever more exposure on the ASP.NET platform including now directly from Microsoft. jQuery is a light weight, open source DOM manipulation library for JavaScript that has changed how many developers think about JavaScript. You can download it and find more information on jQuery on www.jquery.com. For me jQuery has had a huge impact on how I develop Web applications and was probably the main reason I went from dreading to do JavaScript development to actually looking forward to implementing client side JavaScript functionality. It has also had a profound impact on my JavaScript skill level for me by seeing how the library accomplishes things (and often reviewing the terse but excellent source code). jQuery made an uncomfortable development platform (JavaScript + DOM) a joy to work on. Although jQuery is by no means the only JavaScript library out there, its ease of use, small size, huge community of plug-ins and pure usefulness has made it easily the most popular JavaScript library available today. As a long time jQuery user, I’ve been excited to see the developments from Microsoft that are bringing jQuery to more ASP.NET developers and providing more integration with jQuery for ASP.NET’s core features rather than relying on the ASP.NET AJAX library. Microsoft and jQuery – making Friends jQuery is an open source project but in the last couple of years Microsoft has really thrown its weight behind supporting this open source library as a supported component on the Microsoft platform. When I say supported I literally mean supported: Microsoft now offers actual tech support for jQuery as part of their Product Support Services (PSS) as jQuery integration has become part of several of the ASP.NET toolkits and ships in several of the default Web project templates in Visual Studio 2010. The ASP.NET MVC 3 framework (still in Beta) also uses jQuery for a variety of client side support features including client side validation and we can look forward toward more integration of client side functionality via jQuery in both MVC and WebForms in the future. In other words jQuery is becoming an optional but included component of the ASP.NET platform. PSS support means that support staff will answer jQuery related support questions as part of any support incidents related to ASP.NET which provides some piece of mind to some corporate development shops that require end to end support from Microsoft. In addition to including jQuery and supporting it, Microsoft has also been getting involved in providing development resources for extending jQuery’s functionality via plug-ins. Microsoft’s last version of the Microsoft Ajax Library – which is the successor to the native ASP.NET AJAX Library – included some really cool functionality for client templates, databinding and localization. As it turns out Microsoft has rebuilt most of that functionality using jQuery as the base API and provided jQuery plug-ins of these components. Very recently these three plug-ins were submitted and have been approved for inclusion in the official jQuery plug-in repository and been taken over by the jQuery team for further improvements and maintenance. Even more surprising: The jQuery-templates component has actually been approved for inclusion in the next major update of the jQuery core in jQuery V1.5, which means it will become a native feature that doesn’t require additional script files to be loaded. Imagine this – an open source contribution from Microsoft that has been accepted into a major open source project for a core feature improvement. Microsoft has come a long way indeed! What the Microsoft Involvement with jQuery means to you For Microsoft jQuery support is a strategic decision that affects their direction in client side development, but nothing stopped you from using jQuery in your applications prior to Microsoft’s official backing and in fact a large chunk of developers did so readily prior to Microsoft’s announcement. Official support from Microsoft brings a few benefits to developers however. jQuery support in Visual Studio 2010 means built-in support for jQuery IntelliSense, automatically added jQuery scripts in many projects types and a common base for client side functionality that actually uses what most developers are already using. If you have already been using jQuery and were worried about straying from the Microsoft line and their internal Microsoft Ajax Library – worry no more. With official support and the change in direction towards jQuery Microsoft is now following along what most in the ASP.NET community had already been doing by using jQuery, which is likely the reason for Microsoft’s shift in direction in the first place. ASP.NET AJAX and the Microsoft AJAX Library weren’t bad technology – there was tons of useful functionality buried in these libraries. However, these libraries never got off the ground, mainly because early incarnations were squarely aimed at control/component developers rather than application developers. For all the functionality that these controls provided for control developers they lacked in useful and easily usable application developer functionality that was easily accessible in day to day client side development. The result was that even though Microsoft shipped support for these tools in the box (in .NET 3.5 and 4.0), other than for the internal support in ASP.NET for things like the UpdatePanel and the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit as well as some third party vendors, the Microsoft client libraries were largely ignored by the developer community opening the door for other client side solutions. Microsoft seems to be acknowledging developer choice in this case: Many more developers were going down the jQuery path rather than using the Microsoft built libraries and there seems to be little sense in continuing development of a technology that largely goes unused by the majority of developers. Kudos for Microsoft for recognizing this and gracefully changing directions. Note that even though there will be no further development in the Microsoft client libraries they will continue to be supported so if you’re using them in your applications there’s no reason to start running for the exit in a panic and start re-writing everything with jQuery. Although that might be a reasonable choice in some cases, jQuery and the Microsoft libraries work well side by side so that you can leave existing solutions untouched even as you enhance them with jQuery. The Microsoft jQuery Plug-ins – Solid Core Features One of the most interesting developments in Microsoft’s embracing of jQuery is that Microsoft has started contributing to jQuery via standard mechanism set for jQuery developers: By submitting plug-ins. Microsoft took some of the nicest new features of the unpublished Microsoft Ajax Client Library and re-wrote these components for jQuery and then submitted them as plug-ins to the jQuery plug-in repository. Accepted plug-ins get taken over by the jQuery team and that’s exactly what happened with the three plug-ins submitted by Microsoft with the templating plug-in even getting slated to be published as part of the jQuery core in the next major release (1.5). The following plug-ins are provided by Microsoft: jQuery Templates – a client side template rendering engine jQuery Data Link – a client side databinder that can synchronize changes without code jQuery Globalization – provides formatting and conversion features for dates and numbers The first two are ports of functionality that was slated for the Microsoft Ajax Library while functionality for the globalization library provides functionality that was already found in the original ASP.NET AJAX library. To me all three plug-ins address a pressing need in client side applications and provide functionality I’ve previously used in other incarnations, but with more complete implementations. Let’s take a close look at these plug-ins. jQuery Templates http://api.jquery.com/category/plugins/templates/ Client side templating is a key component for building rich JavaScript applications in the browser. Templating on the client lets you avoid from manually creating markup by creating DOM nodes and injecting them individually into the document via code. Rather you can create markup templates – similar to the way you create classic ASP server markup – and merge data into these templates to render HTML which you can then inject into the document or replace existing content with. Output from templates are rendered as a jQuery matched set and can then be easily inserted into the document as needed. Templating is key to minimize client side code and reduce repeated code for rendering logic. Instead a single template can be used in many places for updating and adding content to existing pages. Further if you build pure AJAX interfaces that rely entirely on client rendering of the initial page content, templates allow you to a use a single markup template to handle all rendering of each specific HTML section/element. I’ve used a number of different client rendering template engines with jQuery in the past including jTemplates (a PHP style templating engine) and a modified version of John Resig’s MicroTemplating engine which I built into my own set of libraries because it’s such a commonly used feature in my client side applications. jQuery templates adds a much richer templating model that allows for sub-templates and access to the data items. Like John Resig’s original Micro Template engine, the core basics of the templating engine create JavaScript code which means that templates can include JavaScript code. To give you a basic idea of how templates work imagine I have an application that downloads a set of stock quotes based on a symbol list then displays them in the document. To do this you can create an ‘item’ template that describes how each of the quotes is renderd as a template inside of the document: <script id="stockTemplate" type="text/x-jquery-tmpl"> <div id="divStockQuote" class="errordisplay" style="width: 500px;"> <div class="label">Company:</div><div><b>${Company}(${Symbol})</b></div> <div class="label">Last Price:</div><div>${LastPrice}</div> <div class="label">Net Change:</div><div> {{if NetChange > 0}} <b style="color:green" >${NetChange}</b> {{else}} <b style="color:red" >${NetChange}</b> {{/if}} </div> <div class="label">Last Update:</div><div>${LastQuoteTimeString}</div> </div> </script> The ‘template’ is little more than HTML with some markup expressions inside of it that define the template language. Notice the embedded ${} expressions which reference data from the quote objects returned from an AJAX call on the server. You can embed any JavaScript or value expression in these template expressions. There are also a number of structural commands like {{if}} and {{each}} that provide for rudimentary logic inside of your templates as well as commands ({{tmpl}} and {{wrap}}) for nesting templates. You can find more about the full set of markup expressions available in the documentation. To load up this data you can use code like the following: <script type="text/javascript"> //var Proxy = new ServiceProxy("../PageMethods/PageMethodsService.asmx/"); $(document).ready(function () { $("#btnGetQuotes").click(GetQuotes); }); function GetQuotes() { var symbols = $("#txtSymbols").val().split(","); $.ajax({ url: "../PageMethods/PageMethodsService.asmx/GetStockQuotes", data: JSON.stringify({ symbols: symbols }), // parameter map type: "POST", // data has to be POSTed contentType: "application/json", timeout: 10000, dataType: "json", success: function (result) { var quotes = result.d; var jEl = $("#stockTemplate").tmpl(quotes); $("#quoteDisplay").empty().append(jEl); }, error: function (xhr, status) { alert(status + "\r\n" + xhr.responseText); } }); }; </script> In this case an ASMX AJAX service is called to retrieve the stock quotes. The service returns an array of quote objects. The result is returned as an object with the .d property (in Microsoft service style) that returns the actual array of quotes. The template is applied with: var jEl = $("#stockTemplate").tmpl(quotes); which selects the template script tag and uses the .tmpl() function to apply the data to it. The result is a jQuery matched set of elements that can then be appended to the quote display element in the page. The template is merged against an array in this example. When the result is an array the template is automatically applied to each each array item. If you pass a single data item – like say a stock quote – the template works exactly the same way but is applied only once. Templates also have access to a $data item which provides the current data item and information about the tempalte that is currently executing. This makes it possible to keep context within the context of the template itself and also to pass context from a parent template to a child template which is very powerful. Templates can be evaluated by using the template selector and calling the .tmpl() function on the jQuery matched set as shown above or you can use the static $.tmpl() function to provide a template as a string. This allows you to dynamically create templates in code or – more likely – to load templates from the server via AJAX calls. In short there are options The above shows off some of the basics, but there’s much for functionality available in the template engine. Check the documentation link for more information and links to additional examples. The plug-in download also comes with a number of examples that demonstrate functionality. jQuery templates will become a native component in jQuery Core 1.5, so it’s definitely worthwhile checking out the engine today and get familiar with this interface. As much as I’m stoked about templating becoming part of the jQuery core because it’s such an integral part of many applications, there are also a couple shortcomings in the current incarnation: Lack of Error Handling Currently if you embed an expression that is invalid it’s simply not rendered. There’s no error rendered into the template nor do the various  template functions throw errors which leaves finding of bugs as a runtime exercise. I would like some mechanism – optional if possible – to be able to get error info of what is failing in a template when it’s rendered. No String Output Templates are always rendered into a jQuery matched set and there’s no way that I can see to directly render to a string. String output can be useful for debugging as well as opening up templating for creating non-HTML string output. Limited JavaScript Access Unlike John Resig’s original MicroTemplating Engine which was entirely based on JavaScript code generation these templates are limited to a few structured commands that can ‘execute’. There’s no code execution inside of script code which means you’re limited to calling expressions available in global objects or the data item passed in. This may or may not be a big deal depending on the complexity of your template logic. Error handling has been discussed quite a bit and it’s likely there will be some solution to that particualar issue by the time jQuery templates ship. The others are relatively minor issues but something to think about anyway. jQuery Data Link http://api.jquery.com/category/plugins/data-link/ jQuery Data Link provides the ability to do two-way data binding between input controls and an underlying object’s properties. The typical scenario is linking a textbox to a property of an object and have the object updated when the text in the textbox is changed and have the textbox change when the value in the object or the entire object changes. The plug-in also supports converter functions that can be applied to provide the conversion logic from string to some other value typically necessary for mapping things like textbox string input to say a number property and potentially applying additional formatting and calculations. In theory this sounds great, however in reality this plug-in has some serious usability issues. Using the plug-in you can do things like the following to bind data: person = { firstName: "rick", lastName: "strahl"}; $(document).ready( function() { // provide for two-way linking of inputs $("form").link(person); // bind to non-input elements explicitly $("#objFirst").link(person, { firstName: { name: "objFirst", convertBack: function (value, source, target) { $(target).text(value); } } }); $("#objLast").link(person, { lastName: { name: "objLast", convertBack: function (value, source, target) { $(target).text(value); } } }); }); This code hooks up two-way linking between a couple of textboxes on the page and the person object. The first line in the .ready() handler provides mapping of object to form field with the same field names as properties on the object. Note that .link() does NOT bind items into the textboxes when you call .link() – changes are mapped only when values change and you move out of the field. Strike one. The two following commands allow manual binding of values to specific DOM elements which is effectively a one-way bind. You specify the object and a then an explicit mapping where name is an ID in the document. The converter is required to explicitly assign the value to the element. Strike two. You can also detect changes to the underlying object and cause updates to the input elements bound. Unfortunately the syntax to do this is not very natural as you have to rely on the jQuery data object. To update an object’s properties and get change notification looks like this: function updateFirstName() { $(person).data("firstName", person.firstName + " (code updated)"); } This works fine in causing any linked fields to be updated. In the bindings above both the firstName input field and objFirst DOM element gets updated. But the syntax requires you to use a jQuery .data() call for each property change to ensure that the changes are tracked properly. Really? Sure you’re binding through multiple layers of abstraction now but how is that better than just manually assigning values? The code savings (if any) are going to be minimal. As much as I would like to have a WPF/Silverlight/Observable-like binding mechanism in client script, this plug-in doesn’t help much towards that goal in its current incarnation. While you can bind values, the ‘binder’ is too limited to be really useful. If initial values can’t be assigned from the mappings you’re going to end up duplicating work loading the data using some other mechanism. There’s no easy way to re-bind data with a different object altogether since updates trigger only through the .data members. Finally, any non-input elements have to be bound via code that’s fairly verbose and frankly may be more voluminous than what you might write by hand for manual binding and unbinding. Two way binding can be very useful but it has to be easy and most importantly natural. If it’s more work to hook up a binding than writing a couple of lines to do binding/unbinding this sort of thing helps very little in most scenarios. In talking to some of the developers the feature set for Data Link is not complete and they are still soliciting input for features and functionality. If you have ideas on how you want this feature to be more useful get involved and post your recommendations. As it stands, it looks to me like this component needs a lot of love to become useful. For this component to really provide value, bindings need to be able to be refreshed easily and work at the object level, not just the property level. It seems to me we would be much better served by a model binder object that can perform these binding/unbinding tasks in bulk rather than a tool where each link has to be mapped first. I also find the choice of creating a jQuery plug-in questionable – it seems a standalone object – albeit one that relies on the jQuery library – would provide a more intuitive interface than the current forcing of options onto a plug-in style interface. Out of the three Microsoft created components this is by far the least useful and least polished implementation at this point. jQuery Globalization http://github.com/jquery/jquery-global Globalization in JavaScript applications often gets short shrift and part of the reason for this is that natively in JavaScript there’s little support for formatting and parsing of numbers and dates. There are a number of JavaScript libraries out there that provide some support for globalization, but most are limited to a particular portion of globalization. As .NET developers we’re fairly spoiled by the richness of APIs provided in the framework and when dealing with client development one really notices the lack of these features. While you may not necessarily need to localize your application the globalization plug-in also helps with some basic tasks for non-localized applications: Dealing with formatting and parsing of dates and time values. Dates in particular are problematic in JavaScript as there are no formatters whatsoever except the .toString() method which outputs a verbose and next to useless long string. With the globalization plug-in you get a good chunk of the formatting and parsing functionality that the .NET framework provides on the server. You can write code like the following for example to format numbers and dates: var date = new Date(); var output = $.format(date, "MMM. dd, yy") + "\r\n" + $.format(date, "d") + "\r\n" + // 10/25/2010 $.format(1222.32213, "N2") + "\r\n" + $.format(1222.33, "c") + "\r\n"; alert(output); This becomes even more useful if you combine it with templates which can also include any JavaScript expressions. Assuming the globalization plug-in is loaded you can create template expressions that use the $.format function. Here’s the template I used earlier for the stock quote again with a couple of formats applied: <script id="stockTemplate" type="text/x-jquery-tmpl"> <div id="divStockQuote" class="errordisplay" style="width: 500px;"> <div class="label">Company:</div><div><b>${Company}(${Symbol})</b></div> <div class="label">Last Price:</div> <div>${$.format(LastPrice,"N2")}</div> <div class="label">Net Change:</div><div> {{if NetChange > 0}} <b style="color:green" >${NetChange}</b> {{else}} <b style="color:red" >${NetChange}</b> {{/if}} </div> <div class="label">Last Update:</div> <div>${$.format(LastQuoteTime,"MMM dd, yyyy")}</div> </div> </script> There are also parsing methods that can parse dates and numbers from strings into numbers easily: alert($.parseDate("25.10.2010")); alert($.parseInt("12.222")); // de-DE uses . for thousands separators As you can see culture specific options are taken into account when parsing. The globalization plugin provides rich support for a variety of locales: Get a list of all available cultures Query cultures for culture items (like currency symbol, separators etc.) Localized string names for all calendar related items (days of week, months) Generated off of .NET’s supported locales In short you get much of the same functionality that you already might be using in .NET on the server side. The plugin includes a huge number of locales and an Globalization.all.min.js file that contains the text defaults for each of these locales as well as small locale specific script files that define each of the locale specific settings. It’s highly recommended that you NOT use the huge globalization file that includes all locales, but rather add script references to only those languages you explicitly care about. Overall this plug-in is a welcome helper. Even if you use it with a single locale (like en-US) and do no other localization, you’ll gain solid support for number and date formatting which is a vital feature of many applications. Changes for Microsoft It’s good to see Microsoft coming out of its shell and away from the ‘not-built-here’ mentality that has been so pervasive in the past. It’s especially good to see it applied to jQuery – a technology that has stood in drastic contrast to Microsoft’s own internal efforts in terms of design, usage model and… popularity. It’s great to see that Microsoft is paying attention to what customers prefer to use and supporting the customer sentiment – even if it meant drastically changing course of policy and moving into a more open and sharing environment in the process. The additional jQuery support that has been introduced in the last two years certainly has made lives easier for many developers on the ASP.NET platform. It’s also nice to see Microsoft submitting proposals through the standard jQuery process of plug-ins and getting accepted for various very useful projects. Certainly the jQuery Templates plug-in is going to be very useful to many especially since it will be baked into the jQuery core in jQuery 1.5. I hope we see more of this type of involvement from Microsoft in the future. Kudos!© Rick Strahl, West Wind Technologies, 2005-2010Posted in jQuery  ASP.NET  

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  • How to delete just one LINE of text (NOT a table-row!) with a single KEYBOARD shortcut in Microsoft Office Word 2010?

    - by Sk8erPeter
    Are there any shortcuts to delete just one row (which is NOT a table row, just a single row in a text) in Microsoft Office Word 2010? If not, how can I assign one to do it? In worst case, can I make a macro (in VB) which could do the same with a custom shortcut? To clarify my problem: I would like to avoid multiple clicks and/or pushing multiple buttons, even if I click in the middle of the line of text. :) For example, in Notepad++ I can delete the entire current line with Ctrl+L, in NetBeans, I can delete an entire line with Ctrl+E, in Eclipse, I can delete current line with Ctrl+D, etc., where it doesn't really matter where my mouse cursor is actually... so there are these simple solutions, which I look for in Word too. It really would simplify my work in huge documents.

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  • SQLAuthority News – Statistics Used by the Query Optimizer in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 – Microsoft Whitepaper

    - by pinaldave
    I recently presented session on Statistics and Best Practices in Virtual Tech Days on Nov 22, 2010. The sessions was very popular and I got many questions right after the sessions. The number question I had received was where everybody can get the further information. I am very much happy that my sessions created some curiosity for one of the most important feature of the SQL Server. Statistics are the heart of the SQL Server. Microsoft has published a white paper on the subject how statistics are useful to Query Optimizer. Here is the abstract of the same white paper from Microsoft. Statistics Used by the Query Optimizer in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Writer: Eric N. Hanson and Yavor Angelov Microsoft SQL Server 2008 collects statistical information about indexes and column data stored in the database. These statistics are used by the SQL Server query optimizer to choose the most efficient plan for retrieving or updating data. This paper describes what data is collected, where it is stored, and which commands create, update, and delete statistics. By default, SQL Server 2008 also creates and updates statistics automatically, when such an operation is considered to be useful. This paper also outlines how these defaults can be changed on different levels (column, table, and database). In addition, it presents how certain query language features, such as Transact-SQL variables, interact with use of statistics by the optimizer, and it provides guidance for using these features when writing queries so you can obtain good query performance. Link to white paper Statistics Used by the Query Optimizer in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 ?Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com)   Filed under: Pinal Dave, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Documentation, SQL Download, SQL Query, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQL White Papers, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology

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  • Lancement de la plateforme Microsoft Online Services : testez-la et venez en discuter avec Microsoft

    [IMG]http://www.lgmorand.com/blog/image.axd?picture=2010%2f3%2fhome_header-bg+-+Copie.jpg[/IMG] Après le lancement de sa plateforme Azure en début d'année, Microsoft a lancé début mars sa nouvelle plateforme MOS, pour Microsoft Office Services, une plateforme d'outils de communication externalisés mais restants au service de l'entreprise. Il s'agit un service destiné aux professionnels uniquement qui permet de confier certaines fonctions à Microsoft : messagerie collaborative (Exchange), travail collaboratif (Sharepoint), communications temps réel (Office Communications, Live Meeting, Communicator) et bureautique (Office).

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  • Microsoft MVP 2012 – ASP.NET/IIS

    - by hajan
    It’s Sunday. I wasn’t really sure whether I should expect something today or not, although its 1st of July when we all know that the new and re-awarded MVPs should get the ‘Congratulations’ email by Microsoft. And YES! I GOT IT! This is my second year, and first time re-awarded… Microsoft MVP 2012 The feeling is exactly same as the first time… I am honored, privileged, veeeery happy and thankful to Microsoft for this prestigious award! The past year was really great with all the events, speaking engagements in various conferences and camps, many other community activities and the first time visit at MVP Global Summit. I am looking forward to boost even more the Microsoft community activities in the next year... And… part of the email message: Dear Hajan Selmani, Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2012 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in ASP.NET/IIS technical communities during the past year. I would like to say a big THANK YOU to all stakeholders. First of all, THANK YOU MICROSOFT for this prestigious award, Thanks to CEE & Italy Region MVP Lead, Alessandro Teglia, who did a great job by helping and supporting MVPs through the whole past year, I hope we will continue collaborating in the same way on the forthcoming year! Thanks to my family, friends, supports, followers, those who read my blogs regularly and have made me reach more than thousands of comments in my ASP.NET Blog :), those who collaborate and work with me on a daily basis and are supporting me in all my community activities. Thank You Everyone! There are lot of new, exciting, great and innovative technologies in the Microsoft Technology Stack. I am excited and really looking forward to rock the community in the years to come! THANK YOU! Hajan

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  • How to mail merge a hyperlink in Microsoft Word or Publisher 2010

    - by hjoelr
    I am trying to do an e-mail merge in Microsoft Publisher 2010 (which appears to do mail merging like Microsoft Word) and I'm wanting a merged email address to automatically be hyperlinked in the resulting email. For example, one of the merge fields could be "EmailAddress" with an example address being [email protected]. In the document, I would want the merge field "EmailAddress" to display as the default text in an hyperlink and also set the target of the hyperlink to "mailto:EmailAddress" (eg. mailto:[email protected]). I can't figure out how to get Publisher 2010 to do that. I would think that it's possible, though. Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated!

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  • Cannot write to registry while installing Microsoft Access 2010 - Error 1406

    - by Rillanon
    While installing I get an error: Microsoft Access 2010 encountered an error during setup. Error 1406. Setup cannot write the value to the registry key \Software\Classes\Interface{000C036F-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}\ProxyStubClsid. Verify that have sufficient permissions to access the registry or contact Microsoft Product Support Services (PSS) for assitance. I went to regedit to check on the key that the error was talking about but when I clicked on it it says file not found. I'm using 64bit Windows 7 Ultimate. Any ideas?

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