Anith Gopal

You can drive your week or your week drives you.   One of the ways I add sanity to the chaos of my week is the Monday Vision, Daily Outcomes, Friday Reflection pattern.   It’s a simple way to setup a rhythm of results for the week.

Wishing a very happy and blessed New Year to you in advance! A new release of Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework is available on December 29th.  We expect that its 11 new code samples covering typical programming scenarios in Windows Phone 7, ASP.NET, WPF, Windows Shell, and WDK would ease your development in the coming New Year.

I am from Microsoft SQL Developer Support team, we support many data access technologies. Recently I had a chance to work with SQL DBA, who was facing issue to confirm to his developers whether XA transactions were configured correctly or not. After resolving his problem thought it would be easier for everyone if I blog on XA transactions

Today’s post is by Terri Chen – a developer on the SQL Server Integration Services team. ————– In Denali, the project is a unit of packages that are deployed to the server

My first MSDN Magazine article is up: Get the Most out of WebGrid in ASP.NET MVC . So, if you want to find out how to make the WebGrid component from WebMatrix fit in with ASP.NET MVC then take a peek….

New! First V2.0 ALPHA version at CODEPLEX and preliminary chapters’ drafts of eBook (Second Edition) Dear colleagues, after some time of effort, we can show you our preliminary version (alpha version, actually) of what V2.0 will be.

MSDN just recently performed an interview with Milind Tavshikar of QuantumID. Take a look at the interview below and learn more how our partners use SQL Azure to land strategic wins.   Real World SQL Azure: Interview with Milind Tavshikar, CEO, QuantumID Technologies As part of the Real World SQL Azure series, we talked to Milind Tavshikar, Chief Executive Officer of QuantumID Technologies (QID) about moving to SQL Azure to take on a lucrative new business contract

If you’ve compiled/re-compiled an ADO application on a Windows 7 Service Pack 1-based computer and the app does not run on down-level operating systems with the any of the error messages below, please see our new KB article published on today (16th of March, 2011) : Error message 1 REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG (0×80040154) Error message 2 E_POINTER (0×80004003) Error message 3 E_NOINTERFACE (0×80004002) Error message 4 Unable to cast COM object of type ‘System.__ComObject’ to interface type ‘ADODB.Connection’.

A step by step guidance http://blogs.technet.com/b/gmarchetti/archive/2011/03/12/put-a-vm-on-azure.aspx   Namoskar!!!

One of the handy things about ASP.NET MVC is that the source code is available.

  A quick reminder: After Windows Azure SDK 1.3, we now use full IIS instead HWC (Hosted Web Core). Using IIS we can have several WebSites per WebRole, so now the internal architecture and processes are different, this is why we have to change the we we use the API regarding Windows Azure configuration settings. Basically, in case you’re using ASP.NET, we need to add the following code to our Global.asax Global.asax in ASP.NET         protected void Application_Start()         {                        //(CDLTLL) Configuration for Windows Azure settings             CloudStorageAccount.SetConfigurationSettingPublisher(                 (configName, configSettingPublisher) =>                 {                     var connectionString =                         RoleEnvironment.GetConfigurationSettingValue(configName);                     configSettingPublisher(connectionString);                 }             );         } Here is an interesting post regarding how to solve this issue, for detailed information: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2010/12/08/how-to-resolve-setconfigurationsettingpublisher-needs-to-be-called-before-fromconfigurationsetting-can-be-used-after-moving-to-windows-azure-sdk-1-3.aspx Then, if you want to get a connection string (like ADO.NET or EF connString) from WA-Conf-Settings or from a regular Web.config, depending on what environment you are running your app, you can check if you are running on Windows Azure using ‘ RoleEnvironment.IsAvailable ’, so doing the following can be very useful: CloudStorageAccount.SetConfigurationSettingPublisher((configName, configSetter) => {     string connectionString;     if (RoleEnvironment.IsAvailable)     {         connectionString = RoleEnvironment.GetConfigurationSettingValue(configName);     }     else     {         connectionString = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[configName];     }     configSetter(connectionString); });  

Adam Grocholski has a great post on timeboxing.  In his post, he shares his secrets of how he’s applied Getting Results the Agile Way to take control of his time.  One of my favorite parts is where he explains how he made a business case with his customers to spend less time in meetings, and more time producing results. Check out Adam’s post on Timeboxing .