Anith Gopal

In my previous post about keyboard shortcuts , I promised a summary of the hostable editor shortcuts. I waited on purpose until after the RC build to make this post. There were a couple of reasons for holding off: we changed the way WF designer shortcuts were scoped, and a bunch of shortcuts were broken in beta 2 and fixed in RC.

Workflow Foundation Internals (III) Andrew Au Continue with our last article, we will work on allowing parallelism and create the workflow/host communication pattern.

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Session slides: Will be uploaded next Tuesday at the end of the day. (since session will be redelivered in Porto next Tuesday) Session labs/demos: Will be uploaded next Tuesday at the end of the day.

As part of a personal project, I had a scenario where I expected to be doing large HTTP uploads (ex: PUT ) over a slow network connection.

Just like my last blog post on uploading the beta2 process templates to an upgraded beta1 server , I’ll admit that the audience for this blog post is also small. However, we hit this after upgrading our VSTS Pioneer Dogfood TFS server from Beta1 to an early Beta2 build last weekend.

When OpsMgr discovery hangs it’s because the SQL Broker service has not been enabled in the operationsmanager database.  Just a quick BING search will show you tons of hits about this issue – and I’ve never seen one case where this wasn’t the case – until now. I just finished working an issue where OpsMgr discovery would hang but the SQL Broker service was enabled.  I didn’t know much about the Broker service and definately had never had to troubleshoot it before.  What is the SQL Broker service?  MSDN offers the following statement to describe what Broker does.  A more complete discussion can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms166043(SQL.90).aspx           This new technology, a part of the Database Engine, provides a message-based communication platform that enables           independent application components to perform as a functioning whole.

When you wish to trace and see what is going on in SQL Server then the SQL Profiler tool is really useful.   But what if you wish to read it from, for example, a C# console application? With or without having SQL Profiler installed

This is one of my favorite commands! !runaway displays information about the CPU time consumed by each thread in User Mode and   Kernel Mode. It is one of those commands you run when you think the application is hung with low or high CPU or has some kind of performance issue.   Parameters: Bit 0 (0×1) Causes the debugger to show the amount of user time consumed by each thread

Cross-posted from http://blogs.msdn.com/webtopics     One of my customers had a problem on his IIS server, where the IIS process hosting his web application was suffering from very high memory utilization over time.  Eventually the process got so high in memory that the web application became completely unresponsive and incoming requests were no longer getting served.  Based on these details, we began troubleshooting the issue as a memory leak/high memory issue.

Anyone unfortunate enough to have followed my frantic ramblings over the years (though this blog and my diary from a previous life) will know that, in our house, we are fully paid up members of the modern all-singing, all-dancing, digital media and entertainment society. Well, OK, so we have a Media Center that is our main TV, DVD player, music jukebox, streaming device for our favorite saved videos, and presentation mechanism for a huge library of digital photos. We even use a photo screensaver, so we can relive those wonderful memories of the past whilst daydreaming in our armchairs in the evenings (pipe and slippers being optional accessories)….( read more )

I recently faced an interesting customer scenario. The customer had several document libraries in MOSS 2007. The documents in the library contained links that were all hard coded and they had recently changed the URL of their SharePoint site.