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Data Compression in SQL Server 2008 - Guest Post by Joydeep Das

2012-01-23T06:00:00.001+05:30

This is another small guest post on SQL Server submitted by Joydeep Das. In the previous post, he described about "Join Hint in SQL". In this post, he will guide you to illustrate the concepts of Database Compression on SQL Server 2008. It is the concepts behind the compression only. For details level of learning you need to follow the MSDN or any MS Notes. Read more to understand the concept from Joydeep and don’t forget to ask your SQL Queries in the comments section. Know about the Guest AuthorMr. Joydeep Das is a Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDB), currently working with database design and implementation as a Sr. Software Developer in an ERP development company. Connect with him in his blog: http://sqlservernet.blogspot.com for SQL Server related articles. Where we can do the Data Compression?Data compression can performs only in SQL Server 2008 and not for all versions. It takes: SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition SQL Server 2008...

Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone - 15-January-2012 to 21-January-2012

2012-01-22T12:08:00.000+05:30

Here comes the weekly Silverlight-Zone digest for the week 15th January 2012 to 21st January 2012. This week major posts were on Silverlight and Windows Phone 7. Popular posts were from Christine L., who showcased "Water ScrollViewer", a must read if you didn't yet read; followed by Steve Adey, Stephan Wick, @dotMorten and @mbcrump. Read the complete post to find out the popular 5's and links towards the daily news digest, if you missed any one issue, you can get it here. Popular 5 Posts of the WeekHere comes the popular 5 posts of the week at silverlight-zone.com. This time top viewed post was from Christine L. who demonstrated the Water ScrollViewer control in Silverlight. A must watch post from him. Water ScrollViewer for Silverlight - by Christine L.An animated "Water" Scroll Viewer. Made with custom user controls and editing the ScrollViewer template. I was inspired by several design... MVVM Series: Part I - by SteveAdeyIn this basic introduction to MVVM,...

How to host a Silverlight Application using JavaScript?

2012-01-19T22:00:00.004+05:30

We all know the process to embed a Silverlight application inside a Webpage using div and object tag. When we create a new Silverlight application project, those tags automatically generates by the IDE inside the html and aspx pages. In many cases we need to dynamically add the Silverlight application inside a webpage. In this post, we will learn the process to host it using JavaScript. Looks interesting? Read to know more. About the APIEvery Silverlight web project consists of a JavaScript helper file called "Silverlight.js", that you can reference in your HTML or ASPX pages. You can call the createObject and createObjectEx functions defined in this file to host your Silverlight plug-in inside a Web page. Those functions accept configuration details as input parameters and generate equivalent HTML object elements. Let's start describing more about this with a simple example to help you to understand it better. Embedding Silverlight Application using <object />...

PUG Presents 4 days WP7 Development Training Program

2012-01-17T18:04:00.001+05:30

Pune User Group in association with Microsoft is hosting a 4 days FREE training program for technology professionals in Pune. In this training program, attendees will learn about application development for Microsoft Windows Phone devices. Registration for this training program is absolutely FREE for any technology professional, who wants to learn Windows Phone Application Development. Continue reading this post to know more about this program, session agenda and venue details. At the end, submit 3 applications and claim your FREE Windows Phone 7 device. See you all there. Grab a Windows Phone 7 Device: How?Pune User Group is happy to host a 4 days (28th Jan, 2012 to 25th Feb, 2012) FREE training program for technology professionals. In this training program, attendees will learn about application development for Microsoft Windows Phone devices. Registration for this training program is absolutely FREE. Read FAQs to know more about this Training program. Here are few steps...

Review Report: 70-515 Exam .NET 4.0 Preparation Kit from uCertify

2012-01-16T06:00:00.003+05:30

Few days ago, I received an offer from uCertify to review their Exam Preparation Kit and then I started reviewing 70-515 Exam .NET 4.0 Preparation Kit (PrepKit) from uCertify. In the previous post “I am reviewing 70-515 Exam .NET 4.0 Preparation Kit from uCertify” I shared few information about the product and informed that, I will share in-depth report after the review period. Today in this blog post, I am sharing the complete review report of the Preparation Kit. Read how it will help you to prepare yourself for the Exam. Also, there is a contest available for you. Participate in the contest to win a Free License from me. Information for the Readers: Don’t forget to participate in the contest mentioned at the end of this post. You could be the lucky winner to win a fully functional licensed copy of the Preparation Kit worth ~120$ from me. My blog followers will have a special discount. If you want to purchase the product from uCertify, contact me first and...

Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone - 08-January-2012 to 14-January-2012

2012-01-15T06:00:00.000+05:30

Here comes the weekly news digest of Silverlight-Zone.com. We submitted around 60 new links during 8th January 2012 to 14th January 2012 in our Silverlight or WP7 portal. Read more to find out which are the top 5 posts of the week. Also sharing the daily digest links at the end of this post. Most Popular Posts Here comes most popular posts of the week at Silverlight-Zone. Top 5 posts were from @dpatra, @mvsaradhi, Ashley Davis and @othmanirabeb. Congratulations to all of you for sharing your posts to the community. Displaying Notification Messages in a Silverlight Dashboard Application - by @dPatra Nowadays dashboard applications are becoming popular in Silverlight applications. Well Dashboard applications are normal Silverlight applica... WP Development With “Essential WP 7.5 Application Development with Silverlight”– Part 1of Many - by @mvsaradhi I wanted to introduce to you all to a wonderful book that I came...

Join Hint in SQL - Guest Post by Joydeep Das

2012-01-12T11:07:00.001+05:30

This is a small guest post on SQL Server submitted by one of my friend Joydeep Das. In this post, he will guide you to understand the basics of Join hint and when to use that. He will also guide you on various types of Join hint used in SQL Server with algorithm and code example. So, why are you waiting for? Read more to understand the concept from Joydeep and don’t forget to ask your SQL Queries in the comments section. Know about the Guest Author Mr. Joydeep Das is a Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDB), currently working with database design and implementation as a Sr. Software Developer in an ERP development company. Connect with him in his blog: http://sqlservernet.blogspot.com for SQL Server related articles. What is Join Hint and When to use that? Join hint specifies that the query optimizer enforced the join strategy before joining two tables. By default SQL server takes the best execution plan before joining table’s...

WP7 Tips: How to Unpin an Application from the Start Screen?

2012-01-11T08:12:00.001+05:30

Few days ago, I started with the Windows Phone 7 tips and published a post on “How to Pin an Application to the Start Screen?” where we demonstrated how to pin an application for easy access. Today in this post, we will learn how to unpin the pinned application from Windows Phone 7 start screen. So, read on to learn it. Again, this is a beginner level tips & tricks to start with Windows Phone 7 device. How to Unpin an Application from the Start Screen? Once your WP7 Start screen has one or more application pinned, you will be able to unpin those apps from there. If you don’t have any applications pinned in the Start Screen, it will directly navigate you to the application list. If you want to pin an application, read this post: How to Pin an Application to the Start Screen? First of all, come to the start screen of the device (assuming that you have at least one application pinned there). You will see as below. Tab and hold the application for a...

Rewarded as Codeproject MVP 2012

2012-01-10T07:18:00.001+05:30

Yippee!!! That’s a very good mail came up in my inbox late night which I read just now in the morning. Yes, I have been re-awarded as Codeproject MVP 2012 for my contribution towards the Codeproject portal. This is the 2nd continuous year when I received this award. My sincere thanks to all my friends, GIT members of Codeproject for their continuous support through out the year. Also my sincere thanks to my parents. Without those it was very tough to achieve. Here is the short mail that I received in my mail box: Hi Kunal Chowdhury, Congratulations! In recognition of your outstanding contributions to the community, either through Quick Answers, the forums or through articles and tips, you have been awarded CodeProject MVP status for 2012. Your MVP status will be recognized through the MVP icon you will have next to your forum postings as well as a notice in your member profile. Also, as formal recognition of your award status we will...

Presented “LightSwitch for Business Application Development” in Microsoft Monday

2012-01-09T20:54:00.001+05:30

It was an awesome moment to speak at “Microsoft Monday” today. I delivered one hour session on “LightSwitch for Business Application Development” in front of a great people of Mahindra Satyam. In this blog post, I am going to share the slides that I used in the presentation. Those who participated and/or didn’t get chance to attend it, can go through the slides from here for reference. Here comes the slide (LightSwitch for Business Application Development) for you: For reference, you can also go with the complete Tutorial series of mine here: http://tinyurl.com/LightSwitchTutorial If you have any doubts on the slide content, don’t forget to ask your queries in the comments section below. I will try to answer you as early as I can. Thanks to all for your active participation. Reference: http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com You may like to follow me on twitter @kunal2383 or may like the Facebook page of my blog...

Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone - 01-January-2012 to 07-January-2012

2012-01-08T06:00:00.000+05:30

Here comes this week’s (1st January 2012 to 7th January 2012) news digest on Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, LightSwitch and Metro UI. We have submitted ~63 new article links at Silverlight-Zone.com. Read more to find out the top 5 posts of the week. Also, find out the daily digest links here. Sharing those here too, in case you missed those it will be helpful. Subscribe to our daily newsletter to get those links directly delivered to your inbox. Popular 5 Posts of the Week Here comes the most popular posts of the week at Silverlight-Zone.com, which were viewed by our readers. In the top placed articles were from: Eric Vogel, rzvdaniel, @debug_mode, Vangos and Sumit Dutta. Read the list here: Building a Windows 8 RSS Reader - by Eric Vogel Back in October I covered the basics of the Windows Runtime and how to access it from .NET. Since readers have asked for more, I've decided ... Silverlight Dynamic Themes - by rzvdaniel...

WP7 Tips: How to Pin an Application to the Start Screen?

2012-01-07T15:05:00.001+05:30

Today in this blog post, I am going to start up few Windows Phone 7 tips which will be handy for you if you are a beginner and just started exploring your device. In this first tips & tricks, I will show you how to pin an application from your application list to the start screen of your Windows Phone 7 device. As I told, this post is absolutely for the beginners. How to Pin an Application to the Start Screen? In your Windows Phone 7 device, you will see two screens named “Start Page” and “Application List”. When you start your device or press the Start button, the “Start Page” loads into the screen. When you press the right arrow available at the top right corner of the screen or add a gesture from right to left, it navigates to the “Application List”. You may see a no. of applications listed in your Application List. If you want few of them to pin in your Start Page for easy access, just follow the below steps: First of all,...

I am reviewing 70-515 Exam .NET 4.0 Preparation Kit from uCertify

2012-01-03T06:00:00.000+05:30

I received an offer from uCertify to review their Exam Preparation Kit and I have accepted that challenge and now I am reviewing 70-515 Exam .NET 4.0 Preparation Kit (PrepKit) from uCertify. Initially it looks simple, intuitive and very user friendly in terms of User Interface. As soon as I am done with the full review I will post the review report for you all. But for now, I am sharing some information about the product in this blog post. Continue reading to know further about it. First Look into the Preparation Kit uCertify.com has several training preparation kits on various topics which contains a set of training guide including crucial information about the exam format and test preparation tips. It consists of reference notes and study guides like technical articles, practice questions and diagnostic tests. It also contains a smart dashboard to track your learning progress. Here is a screenshot of the M70-515 (TS: Web Application Development...

Celebrating First Anniversary of Silverlight-Zone.com

2012-01-01T10:00:00.002+05:30

I am very happy to announce that, www.silverlight-zone.com has completed it’s first anniversary today. We officially launched this portal on 1st January 2011 and continuing our efforts to submit article news daily. I appreciate the efforts made by the contributors of this community portal and the followers of Silverlight-Zone. Without their support this journey could be very difficult. This post is not just the celebration of 1 year completion, we are also announcing our first “Contributor of the Month” award. We are happy to see such contributors on-board. SilverlightZone is not only a portal of Silverlight Technology, we submit article links of Windows Phone 7, LightSwitch, WPF, XNA, Windows 8 Metro Applications too. It’s India's 1st and only one complete web portal which is targeted for those development community. We started our journey on 1st January 2011 with 118 posts borrowed from 2010 and gradually reached to 3706 posts in 2011....

Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone - 25-December-2011 to 31-December-2011

2012-01-01T06:00:00.000+05:30

Here comes the “Weekly News Digest” of Silverlight-Zone.com during 25th December 2011 to 31st December 2011. During the week, we have submitted around 43 new posts to our portal by digging through the net. In this post, find the popular 5 posts of the week, as well as popular 5 posts of the month. Also find the daily digest links at the end of the post. We have also completed our 1 year today and the anniversary post is coming up shortly. Stay tuned to my blog for details. Popular 5 Posts of the Week Here comes the Popular 5 Posts of the week. In this week top ranked posts were from Matt Hidinger, Pieter De Rycke, @telerik, @mcnamaragio and @ColinEberhardt. Find the posts from them here: Real World WP7Dev Part 4: The Panorama - by Matt Hidinger This series is going to walk through building a polished, functioning Windows Phone app from start to finish. The app is called Realworld St... My Top Frameworks for...

Monthly Summary - December 2011

2012-01-01T00:10:00.000+05:30

Here comes the “Monthly Summary” of posts published during December 2011. I have submitted 16 blog posts on mixed juice. In this post, I will summarize them category wise, so that, you can find them very easily. December was a great month for me. I started a video tutorial series on Windows 8 Metro style application. If you didn’t watch them, find the links in this post. Follow my blog for latest articles, tutorials, tips and contests. “Like” my Facebook page for all Technical updates. Wish you a Happy New Year. Greetings You all know that, December is a festive season starting with X-MAS and followed by new year. Everyone has new resolution for the new year, a new goal for their career. Here are some video greetings from me on the occasion of Christmas and New Year 2012: Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2012 Wish you a Happy New Year 2012 filled with all the joy and happiness in the world Video Tutorials In December 2011, I...

Wish you a Happy New Year 2012 filled with all the joy and happiness in the world

2011-12-31T00:39:00.001+05:30

My friends, sincerely, I will never stop wishing that your journey through this world will be touched by kindness, inspired by wisdom, graced with understanding, and kept safe from all harm. Wishing you not just happiness but pure joy, not just wealth but Heaven's treasures, not just silence but God's peace. May this new year bring you all the blessings every day in your life. Wish you and your family a Happy and Prosperous New Year. At the end of the year… Thanks to those who hated me, because they made me a stronger person. Thanks to those who loved me, because they made my heart bigger. Thanks to those who were worried about me, because they let me know that they cared about me. Thanks to those who left me, because they made me realize that nothing lasts forever. Thanks to those who entered my life and never left, because they made me know who I am. And my special thanks to all my friends, who supported me throughout the year...

Betty Wallpapers - A WP7 Wallpaper Application by @Jebarson007

2011-12-30T06:00:00.000+05:30

“Betty Wallpapers” is a small Windows Phone 7 application developed by my friend Jebarson Jebamony (aka. Jeba), Microsoft India. Using this application, you can search and download wallpapers and images from the web. It allows to search images with any key. It also has a settings panel, where you can configure various options related to your search parameter. The installer of this application is less than 1MB in size and supports Windows Phone 7.5 or higher. You can install the Trial version (which has few settings OFF by default) and if you like it, purchase it from the Marketplace to support the development. Get the Application from Marketplace If you want to try out the application, you can get the Trial version from the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace. Free version will not allow you to turn off adult filter for the cause to prevent minors from accessing adult images. If you like it, you can purchase the full version for just Rs. 55.00 (INR). ...

Microsoft Security Advisory (2659883) - Vulnerability in ASP.NET Could Allow Denial of Service

2011-12-29T22:09:00.001+05:30

Today I received this “Security Alert” from Microsoft via email and thought to share this with you. If you are using ASP.Net in your server, read this post to know about it to keep your server in good health from this DoS Attack. Sharing the email as it is in this post. Microsoft is aware of detailed information that has been published describing a new method to exploit hash tables. Attacks targeting this type of vulnerability are generically known as hash collision attacks. Attacks such as these are not specific to Microsoft technologies and affect other web service software providers. This vulnerability affects all versions of Microsoft .NET Framework and could allow for an unauthenticated denial of service attack on servers that serve ASP.NET pages. What is the purpose of this alert? This alert is to notify you that Microsoft has released Security Advisory 2659883 - Vulnerability in ASP.NET Could Allow Denial of Service - on December 28, 2011. ...

Practical Demonstration of Windows 8 Metro Style Application Lifecycle

2011-12-29T06:00:00.000+05:30

In our last video tutorial “What is the Lifecycle of Windows 8 Metro Style Application?”, we learnt how the Windows 8 metro style application life cycle works using a small video demonstration of states. In this video tutorial we will see a practical example of it using the already available metro applications. Continue to watch the video tutorial series. Tutorial Index Here is the list of the previous chapters of the video tutorial series. If you didn’t watch them earlier, go thru them before starting with the Windows 8 Metro style application development: How to Create a Windows 8 Metro Style Application using Visual Studio 2011? What is Package.appxmanifest File in Windows 8 Metro Style Application? What is the Lifecycle of Windows 8 Metro Style Application? Practical Demonstration of Windows 8 Metro Style Application Lifecycle Your feedbacks are always welcome. Don’t hesitate to leave a small line here. This will encourage me...