Anith Gopal

draft, just a test for WLW

If you didn’t already know, Windows Embedded POSReady is the successor of Windows Embedded for Point of Service. Windows Embedded POSReady boasts a long list of new and/or improved features over Windows Embedded for Point of Service – just check out the 38 features listed on www.posready.com . Some of the changes we made are obvious, others are less obvious

En sak som jag började fundera på idag var om det inte vore ganska trevligt att kunna använda T4-mallar för att generera exempelvis WCF-proxys för klienten vid användning av “Add Service Reference”. Men det står lite still i huvudet, och produktteamet är inte helt emot att ta detta som en “feature”-request om jag bara kan få några scenarios där detta verkligen skulle kunna vara nödvändigt. Har DU något att bidra med

I just spent ages troubleshooting an annoying thing with SCCM. Every time I tried an OSD PXE installation the PXE would load and then just before the task started it would just reboot

I’ve recently been installing a lot of MS Server products into a lab.

Sanjay Mishra just published the following White Paper, ” Data Compression: Strategy, Capacity Planning and Best Practices “, highly recommended and much anticipated. On this same topic, I received a question from a colleague the other day, asking what the impact of data compression on memory was.  The assumptions I had were as follows: Page or Row compression allows for more data to fit in memory (compressed page on disk matches compressed page in the buffer cache) When the data is read from memory for use in a query – it is uncompressed during that time A little unsure of the specifics, I still wanted confirmation on these assumptions, so thank you to Sunil Agarwal for confirming that this was correct.  Compressed data does reside in the buffer pool in a compressed form (which you can test in a before/after data compression using sys.dm_os_buffer_descriptors), but when compressed data is referenced, it is uncompressed as needed.  Sanjay’s paper also discusses this topic in more detail in the “Application Workload” section.

In slow economic times, it is often hard for customers to justify upgrading technology when they cannot easily identify specific benefits they will enjoy as a result of the upgrade.  For those Microsoft Dynamics GP customers who haven’t yet upgraded to SQL Server 2008, I think you may find the results of our recent Performance Benchmark tests to be reason enough to make the jump! In the latest test results utilizing a very large sample Microsoft Dynamics GP database, the application showed an 18% increase in performance through upgrading from SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition to SQL Server 2008 Enterprise edition when using Row Compression.

Create the Windows Form Control Create a “Windows Forms Control Library” project in Visual Studio 2008. For this simple example we will add a Button and a TextBox to the control

  Once I had to work on requirement where I was   using SharePoint’s OOB Approval workflow but I had to programmatically alter the workflow task using SPWorkflowTask.AlterTask API. Below is the code snippet that I used. Though I was able to set the percent complete of the task as “completed” but still wasn’t able to set the workflow outcome

Last night I was working on my old machine at home which had Windows XP installed on it. I wondered how I can have Windows 7 up and running on this machine without formatting my drive, since I had only one partition with Windows XP on it

Recently we came across this scenario: – A transaction log was growing fast in size. – To free up space we decided to: o Backup the transaction log o Shrink the log file to reclaim lost space from the hard disk The backup log command worked as expected, however the shrinking of the transaction log gave this error: SQL error 8985 – Could not locate file XXXXXXX in sysfiles We ran these three queries to find out what kind of inconsistency there was: – DBCC FILEHEADER ( dbname ) This query returned…( read more )

  Blob Cache(Binary Large Objects Cache) OR Disk-based caching controls caching for binary large objects (BLOBs) such as image, sound, and video files, as well as code fragments. Disk-based caching is extremely fast and eliminates the need for database round trips