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My SharePoint 2010 book released

2012-01-27T03:42:00.001-08:00

My SharePoint book released

http://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Microsoft-SharePoint-Foundation-2010/dp/1450783554/

Blog on redpipit.com

2010-12-15T19:29:00.000-08:00

I have moved my blogging space from blogspot to repipit.com

http://www.blog.redpipit.com/author/Vivek.aspx

Developer Awards Announced

2010-08-31T02:50:00.000-07:00

Developer Awards

redPipit Most Valuble Developer for Developers Community

redPipit is happy to announce the award recoginition program for all the registered users of www.redpipit.com. Yearly one of the most valuable redPipit user, who is more frequent and usefull solution provider for all other users and readers of www.redpipit.com will be awarded as the "redPipit Most Valuble Developer". The final result will be based on the judges and reviewer of the award program. All the best for each and every users of redPipit.

redpipit forum www.redpipit.com

2010-08-19T23:55:00.000-07:00

A long waited community portal for computer technologies. http://www.redpipit.com/ has been launched successfully.

This is fully developed using ASP.NET and C# programming runs completely based on Microsoft Technologies. Technology solution and support given by Arimaan Global Consulting, India.

All community influencers are welcome and invited to participate in this free technology forum and make is has a great success.

The server principal "DB" is not able to access the database "_ANTARES_WCF" under the current security context. (Microsoft SQL Server,

2010-08-18T08:23:00.000-07:00

Error

Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 916

Many times developers connect remotely to their MS SQl Database using
SQL Server Management Studio. Sometimes when they connect the get the following error:

Problem:
The server principal "DB name" is not able to access the database "Another DB Name"
under the current security context. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 916)

Solution:

To fix this SQL Server Management Studio 2008 (maybe in 2005 too), please do the following:

1. Open SQL Server Management Studio 2008

2. Connect to the database server as normal

3. Press F7 to open the "Object Explorer Details" window or click "View" >> "Object Explorer Details"

4. In the object explorer details window expand by double click on "Databases"

5. Right click on the header bar ("Name", "Policy health state", "Recovery Model", etc) and deselect "Collation" from the menu that will pop up

6. From the object explorer, refresh the "Databases"

BOOK : Refactoring with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

2010-08-12T06:14:00.000-07:00

Refactoring with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

This book will show you how to make your code base more maintainable by detailing various refactorings. Visual Studio includes some basic refactorings that can be used independently or in conjunction to make complex refactorings easier and more approachable. This book will discuss large-scale code management, which typically calls for refactoring. To do this, we will use enterprise editions of Visual Studio, which incorporate features like Application Performance Explorer and Visual Studio Analyzer. These features make it simple to handle code and prove helpful for refactoring quickly.

https://www.packtpub.com/refactoring-with-microsoft-visual-studio-2010/book

want to develop Windows Phone 7 applications?

2010-03-18T04:46:00.000-07:00

Want to develop Windows Phone 7 applications?

The same powerful and easy to use Visual Studio integrated developer environment (IDE) handles from design to testing of Windows Phone 7 Series phone applications.

Download the latest release

ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM Now Available

2010-03-18T04:34:00.000-07:00

ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM Now Available

ASP.NET MVC is a free, fully supported framework that enables developers to quickly build standards-based, SEO-friendly Web sites by offering complete control over the HTML and URLs. The latest release introduces extensible client-side validation, enhanced model validation, asynchronous controllers, and lots of other features that help developers build Web sites and applications faster. Visit the ASP.NET MVC section and read "What's new in ASP.NET MVC 2" to learn more, and download ASP.NET MVC 2 today

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 64 bit Prerequisites (x64): [2] Error: Installation failed for component Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 64bit Prerequisites

2010-02-02T10:59:00.000-08:00

"Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 64 bit Prerequisites (x64): [2] Error: Installation failed for component Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 64bit Prerequisites.."

When I plan to explore about Visual Studio 2010, I have downloaded the latest beta version available for developers. Than I run the setup in my Windows Server 2008 R2 64bit, it throws the above error with more error log information.
And than I searched for solution in Google, most of them mentioned remove the previous version of .NET framework or previous of Visual Studio from the system and try. But in my system there is no previous version of such software exist. Very few mentioned that remove VC ++ 9.0 Distributed from your system, when I tried that. After uninstalling VC ++ 9.0 and reinstall my Visual Studio 2010 Beta, VC ++ 9.0 gets automatically installed again.

Still no solution found.... researching for solution

SharePoint 2010 Certifications

2010-01-13T05:47:00.000-08:00

IT Professional track

Before taking the 70-668, 70-667 has to be passed.

70-667+ 70-668 = SharePoint 2010 MCITP (Microsoft Certified IT Professional).

70-667 TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Configuring

Microsoft Official Curriculum: Will cover configuration of SharePoint 2010 including deployment, upgrade, management, and operation on a server farm.

70-668 PRO: SharePoint 2010, Administrator

Microsoft Official Curriculum: Will cover advanced SharePoint 2010 topics including capacity planning, topology designing, and performance tuning.

Developer track

Before taking the 70-576, you need to pass the 70-573.

70-573 + 70-576 = SharePoint 2010 MCPD (Microsoft Certified Professional Developer).

70-573 TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Application Development

Microsoft Official Curriculum: Five-day instructor-led course designed for developers with six months or more of .NET development experience. Course covers what you need to know to be an effective member of a SharePoint development team using Visual Studio 2010.

70-576 PRO: Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Applications

Microsoft Official Curriculum: Five-day instructor-led training course designed for development team leads who have already passed the Developing on SharePoint 2010 technical specialist exam. The course covers choosing technologies for and scoping a SharePoint project, best practices for SharePoint development, configuring a SharePoint development

All SharePoint 2010 exams and certifications will be available in June 2010.

For more information: https://partner.microsoft.com/40121316?msp_id=sharepoint2010ready

NEW BOOK:Building and Customize your Small-Business Web Site from PacktPub

2010-01-04T13:20:00.001-08:00

Build and Customize your Small-Business Web Site

Build a highly usable, customer-friendly, and effective web site in next-to-no-time
No computerese! Plain English tutorials that everyone can follow and understand
Part of Packt's Beginner's Guide Series, offering step-by-step instructions for building a small-business web site from scratch
Emphasizes web design fundamentals and best practices along the way
Packed with Office Live Small Business Tips, Tricks, and Hacks

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Windows Vista themes are not applying properly...

2010-01-03T14:33:00.000-08:00

I had a problem in getting my default Windows Vista themes back, due to some reason. When I look at my personalization option under control panel. I am getting this for Themes options.

After several analysis, I found that Themes are managed as separate service in Vista. When I checked the same in the service I found that Themes service is Disables/Stopped. Once I started the themes service in my laptop, I got all my default Vista style themes back working fine.

Hope this helps some...

Could not load file or assembly 'System.Data.SqlServerCe'

2009-12-15T11:24:00.000-08:00

Solution :
When I migrate my 32 Bit VB.NET application to 64 Bit VB.NET 2008 compact application it throws me the error saying "Could not load file or assembly 'System.Data.SqlServerCe' " or similar to this error mesage.

When you run the application it may throw the following error saying that could not load or assembly 'System.Data.SqlServerCe' even after installing the service pack for Vista 64 bit OS and also for .NET framework 3.5 the same error prsist.

Then I identified that something is wrong with the core reference thatis is missing with framework. Then I installed the "Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 Service Pack 1 and Synchronization Services for ADO.NET version 1.0 Service Pack 1 for Windows Desktop"

This installation will solve you the problem.
And then the problem you face is the different one. :)
restart the your system and then follow as per the http://sqlserverce.org/blogs/faq/archive/2007/02/09/missing-system-data.aspx

Thanks
Happy coding

Is it the difference?

2009-11-18T07:06:00.000-08:00

Design Pattern: Programmatically how the whole system is going to be developed

Architecture: Systamatically how the solution is going to be developed.

Is Windows 7 a Greatest OS ever!!!???###

2009-10-29T13:33:00.000-07:00

An excellect article I read, and I would like to share with you all.
go thro' the pcworld article on Windows 7
Hope everyone likes the same...
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/174320/is_windows_7_the_greatest_os_ever_let_me_count_the_ways.html

ASP.NET controls and CSS usage tips

2009-09-20T09:08:00.000-07:00

While using ASP.NET controls its hard to override font styles properties from CSS classes, because ASP.NET controls have there own font style properties for most of the controls.
So have this in mind and dont keep on thinking why some of the CSS font style properties not reflecting in the ASP.NET control. Just the font properties of the controls while using ASP.NET controls.

Thanks

Microsoft Surface Developer Challenge

2009-09-01T07:13:00.000-07:00

The Microsoft Surface Developer Challenge is a fun entry into building intuitive and forward-thinking applications specifically for Microsoft Surface. Instead of simply retro-fitting existing applications for Microsoft Surface, this challenge starts and ends with touch. It’s about touch first computing on the Microsoft Surface platform.

Assembly 'AjaxControlToolkit, Version=3.0.30512.20315, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=28f01b0e84b6d53e' uses 'System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0,

2009-08-29T03:39:00.000-07:00

Error Assembly 'AjaxControlToolkit, Version=3.0.30512.20315, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=28f01b0e84b6d53e' uses 'System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' which has a higher version than referenced assembly 'System.Web.Extensions, Version=1.0.61025.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35'

The solution worked for me is...
1) I changed target framework to 3.5 in all the projects in my solution
2) Clean all the projects in the solution
3) Rebuild the full solution
4) Open the web.config file and remove the content
<runtime >
<assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="System.Web.Extensions" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35">
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="1.0.0.0-1.1.0.0" newVersion="3.5.0.0">
</dependentAssembly>
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="System.Web.Extensions.Design" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35">
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="1.0.0.0-1.1.0.0" newVersion="3.5.0.0">
</dependentAssembly>
</assemblyBinding>
</runtime>
and save.
5) Now close the Visual Studio 2008 and open again, clean the full solution and rebuild.
oooorey It worked :)
Hope this may help someone.

Visual Studio 2008 - The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid

2009-08-20T11:01:00.000-07:00

Error

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Microsoft Visual Studio
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Unable to start debugging on the web server.

Internet Information Services 7.0

Error Summary

HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error

The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid.

Detailed Error InformationError Summary
HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error
The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid.

Config Source

   -1:
    0:

Make sure the server is operating correctly. Verify there are no syntax errors in web.config by doing a Debug.Start Without Debugging. You may also want to refer to the ASP.NET and ATL Server debugging topic in the online documentation.
---------------------------
OK Help
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Solution
You are using IIS 7.0 on a computer that is running Windows Vista. Additionally, you configure the Web site to use UNC Passthrough authentication to access a remote Universal Naming Convention (UNC) share.The IIS_IUSRS group does not have the appropriate permissions for the ApplicationHost.config file or for the Web.config file.

I have given rights to folder which contains the web.config file. Now it works for me...

Types and there definitions in C#.NET

2009-08-04T02:38:00.000-07:00

Type

Base class that represents any type.

Value Type

Base class that represents any value type.

Reference Types

Any data types that are accessed through a reference and stored on the heap.

Built-in Value Types

Includes most of the standard primitive types, which represent numbers, Boolean values, or characters.

Enumerations

Sets of enumerated values.

User-defined Value Types

Types that have been defined in source code and are stored as value types. In C# terms, this means any struct.

Interface Types

Interfaces.

Pointer Types

Pointers.

Self-describing Types

Data types that provide information about themselves for the benefit of the garbage collector .

Arrays

Any type that contains an array of objects.

Class Types

Types that are self-describing but are not arrays.

Delegates

Types that are designed to hold references to methods.

User-defined Reference Types

Types that have been defined in source code and are stored as reference types. In C# terms, this means any class.

Boxed Value Types

A value type that is temporarily wrapped in a reference so that it can be stored on the heap.

In-memory application cache for all kinds of data

2009-07-30T09:06:00.000-07:00

Microsoft project code named “Velocity” provides a highly scalable in-memory application cache for all kinds of data. By using cache, you can significantly improve application performance by avoiding unnecessary calls to the data source. Distributed cache enables your application to match increasing demand with increasing throughput by using a cache cluster that automatically manages the complexities of load balancing. When you use “Velocity,” you can retrieve data by using keys or other identifiers, named “tags.”

“Velocity” supports optimistic and pessimistic concurrency models, high availability, and a variety of cache configurations. “Velocity” includes an ASP.NET session provider object that enables you to store ASP.NET session objects in the distributed cache without having to write to databases, which increases the performance and scalability of ASP.NET applications.

For more information, see the What’s New topic in the product documentation.

ASP.NET website "Cannot read configuration file due to insufficient permissions" in IIS 7 and Windows Server 2008

2009-07-21T10:26:00.000-07:00

"The server is configured to use pass-through authentication with a built-in account to access the specified physical path. However, IIS Manager cannot verify whether the built-in account has access. Make sure that the application pool identity has Read access to the physical path. If this server is joined to a domain, and the application pool identity is NetworkService or LocalSystem, verify that \$ has Read access to the physical path. Then test these settings again."

"Cannot read configuration file due to insufficient permissions"

Solution:
1. Add IIS_IUSRS with Read permission on files in the folder
2. Change IIS authentication method to BasicAuthentication
3. refresh the website. It will work

Save Green, Earn Green, Code Green

2009-07-06T21:44:00.000-07:00

Enter the Will Code for Green! developer contest and if your economy or ecology themed web application is chosen as one of the two grand prize winners at the 2009 gnomedex.com technology conference, you'll win $10,000 - enough to take the idea further! Imagine how that could help you help others!

Tell us how your application is either helping people deal with the worsening global economy or helping to improve the ecology of the planet Earth and Show Us how you're coding for green!

Check back every week as the entries grow and vote for your favorites (limit one per category) through August 12,2009! Please see the Official Rules for more information. Just enter your Email Address to begin.

Global SharePoint Survey

2009-07-06T10:42:00.000-07:00

This is an independent survey being conducted to get a glimpse into the adoption and usage of Microsoft Office SharePoint products and technologies worldwide. The survey has been designed to ensure we are respectful of your time, no questions are mandatory, the majority of the questions are multiple choice, and the path of questions is customized based on your responses. In total there are fifteen questions

SharepointSurvey

The survey is open to both business and IT professional users of SharePoint. Those who participate in the survey will be eligible to win a conference pass to the 2009 Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas (value USD $1199).

Could not write lines to file is denied. Visual Studio 2005

2009-06-15T04:23:00.000-07:00

Error 11 Could not write lines to file "obj\Activities.csproj.FileList.txt". Access to the path 'D:\StarTeam\Activities\obj\Activities.csproj.FileList.txt' is denied. Activities

Issue: As you can see, MSBuild is trying to write to the *.vbproj.FileList.txt file in the \obj folder, but access is denied. If you look at this file on disk, you will notice that it is marked as read-only. No big deal, just turn off the read-only flag. You do this and rebuild, but the build passes. Very good! You go home with a nice case of the "warm fuzzies" and sleep like a baby. In the morning you come in to the office to find that the nightly build broke with the same exception. You look at the *.vbproj.FileList.txt file and it is read-only on the build machine. You scratch your head and let out a expletives and then delete the entire \obj folder. Then the nightly build is run again and if fails again damn it! Oh look, the *.vbproj.FileList.txt file is back to read-only. Sounding familiar yet?

Problem: The build fails because the *.vbproj.FileList.txt file is read-only so MSBuild can't write to it.

Reason: The file is read-only because you checked the \obj folder into source control in SteWhenevernevery you do a Getsourcesoruce control, the files are placed on the drive as read-only. The nightly build is configured to delete the prior run's source code (or should be) and Get from source control prior to building. Therefore every nightly build fails in the same way.

Solution: Delete the \obj folder from source control and check-in the change. That's it.