Anith Gopal

The second release candidate for WordPress 3.1 is now available. The requisite haiku: Rounding up stragglers Last few bugs for 3.1 Go test RC2 As I outlined in the announcement post for RC1 , release candidates are the last stop before the final release

Summary: – SQL Server 32 bits vs 64 bits – SQL Server IO considerations – Troubleshooting using Perfmon and Profiler – SSMS Tips – Visualizing Schemas – Performance troubleshooting using MDW Session slides: Session Slides Session labs/demos: Demos (this session will be redelivered trough webcast format)

We’ve heard the feedback that some of you are having a hard time finding games in matchmaking with MW2 since Tuesday’s update.  If those of you with this problem can answer a few questions it’ll help us get to the bottom of things.   Please leave a comment and answer the following questions:   1.

No Assemblies Found Matching: assemblyname.dll   Have you ever run into an issue where you don’t seem to be able to get rid of that assembly in GAC no matter how many times you try to run GACUTIL or delete it from your Windows Explorer running as administrator?   It probably frustrates the heck out of you and in addition it messes up the working of your application

Here is a webcast , about SQL Server 2008 as your choice for deploying Kronos, and there is talk about some of the technical considerations for deploying Workforce Central using SQL Server 2008. TechNet Webcast: Deploying Kronos Workforce Management Solutions Using SQL Server 2008 (Level 200)

A common user interface tweak is to save the size and location of a window and restore that state when the program starts up again. That way, the users don’t need to re-do their work of resizing and moving the windows to where they want them. However I’ve found that there isn’t really a convenient way to do with in C#.

The Rx.Net Team has announced a new version of Reactive Extensions for .NET.  Rx is a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable collections.

  There are a lot of timeouts in WCF. let us summarize it here.

For those wondering my current project is, I can finally talk about it! I’ll be speaking at Mix, hope to see you there! SILVERLIGHT PERFORMANCE ON WINDOWS PHONE Learn how to optimize your Silverlight code for Windows Phone. This session will discuss common bottlenecks using the graphics and managed stacks, and will highlight how to optimize startup and reaction time

This may be somewhat obvious but took me a few minutes to figure out what had happened. I have been developing sandbox solutions on my development box for a project I’m working on and was at the point of uploading some of the WSP’s to the staging SharePoint 2010 farm. They uploaded just fine to the site collection and showed the "Activate" button highlighted upon selecting the solution.

Finish the month off with a bang (literally) and play the team from the DualShockers website  in our Community Playdate, Sunday, February 28.

WIQL (Work Item Query Language) is the query language for Work Items that Test Management adopts for querying test objects. In Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), WIQL queries are hidden away from users and only the query results are displayed. Nevertheless, if you ever need to use the command-line tool (TCM.exe) or to write your own code against the TCM OM, knowing the Test-specific WIQL syntaxes would become very handy.