Khurram Aziz

Knowing the counts of table entries in SQL Server

2013-02-28T08:54:00Z

Here's the query to know the counts of the table entries in SQL Server select object_name ( object_id ), row_count from sys . dm_db_partition_stats where index_id < 2 order by row_count desc...(read more)

Simple Accounting Software

2011-01-09T16:46:00Z

Being in Software Industry; I am often contacted by people who are looking for a “simple accounting software” (or some time simple retail software) and often say they need very simple thing which might need 1 to 2 developer month time of development…Some even try this; and then come back after 3-6 months blaming software developers that they could not deliver what they wanted. Problem lies that they are not putting up enough requirements and not defining the scope well enough. For all these people...(read more)

Sharepoint–File Not Found

2011-01-09T16:30:45Z

If you have created your custom ASPX and getting “File Not Found” exception; here are few possible reasons and solutions Place the assembly (DLL) containing the code behind code into the sharepoint web application’s bin folder. If it resolves the issue but you don’t want to keep the DLL into web application’s bin folder and instead want to have it in Global Assembly Cache (GAC) only then you need to make sure that in the @Page directive you are giving the full name including its public key of your...(read more)

ASP.NET MVC 2 Strongly Typed HTML Helpers

2010-04-28T12:45:27Z

ASP.NET MVC 2 is released lately, and I was fascinated by the ASP.NET MVC 2’s strongly typed HTML helper; where you can tell the library the field name in compiler friendly fashion like <% Html.TextBoxFor( m => m.FirstName) %> MVC’s Html helper class magically outputs the correct tag having necessary stuff like id of the textbox based on the field name you have just passed. For MVC its beneficial in a way that when you are editing/creating the ASCX/ASPX file in Visual Studio; Visual Studio...(read more)

Active Directory Application Mode

2010-04-18T16:18:24Z

From the Wikipedia Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM) is a light-weight implementation of Active Directory. ADAM is capable of running as a service, on computers running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP Professional. ADAM shares the code base with Active Directory and provides the same functionality as Active Directory, including an identical API, but does not require the creation of domains or domain controllers. Like Active Directory, ADAM provides a Data Store, which is a hierarchical...(read more)

Why Microsoft Dynamics GP 10 Workflow is Joke?

2010-03-08T12:43:00Z

Most of the things in Microsoft Dynamics GP are Dexterity based; which is a RAD scripting like environment with rich support for Forms, Tables etc; something like PL/SQL. Dynamics GP also supports .NET based clients assemblies that you can load against GP forms; for that you need to create form factories according to the Dynamics GP expectations. You specify these form factories in Dynamics.exe.config file (a typical .NET form app looking config). You create the form, their windows and controls on...(read more)

UserVoice – ASP.NET and Silverlight Teams are listening!

2010-02-18T19:07:10Z

I just voted for Multiple web.config Transforms for ASP.NET. What do you think? I just voted for Silverlight on XBOX 360 for Silverlight. What do you think?...(read more)

Recreate “Show Desktop” icon in Quick Launch

2010-02-17T08:41:07Z

Simply save the following content using Notepad at %userprofile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch as a file having extension scf; like Show Desktop.scf; it will not appear right away; you can then enable disable the Quick Launch toolbar to force it to reload the icons! [Shell] Command=2 IconFile=explorer.exe,3 [Taskbar] Command=ToggleDesktop...(read more)

Windows Phone 7 - The Real Smart Phones?

2010-02-16T09:11:30Z

Few weeks back I was in process of choosing my new smart phone. I figured out that iPhone is just a buzz and has become sort of status symbol. Symbian is dying; Nokia is left behind alone and others have moved away to Android. S60v5 is the latest and I guess the last release as Nokia is positioning to use Maemo (Linux underneath) for its next smart phones. Nokia’s N900; the first Maemo powered Smart Phone is still expensive and not very good as a phone (my opinion). Android looks promising..but I...(read more)

Sharepoint and SQL Server Reporting Services

2010-01-01T20:02:00Z

SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services SP2 or later can be integrated with Sharepoint. Setting it up is bit tricky. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee384252.aspx URL is must read to troubleshoot the issues. For me following worked Ensure only Windows Integrated Authentication is checked on http://server/ReportServer DisableLoopBackCheck using http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896861 Use Windows Authentication in SQL Server Reporting Services Integration option of Central Administration Make sure...(read more)

VSeWSS – Sharepoint Event Receivers

2009-12-14T08:10:00Z

Coding Event Receivers with Visual Studio Extensions for Windows Sharepoint Services (VSeWSS) is easy; you add it into your project using Add New Item –> Sharepoint / Event Receiver. You dont need to add “EventReceiver” in the name; as it will automatically post fix; ItemEventReceiver and ListEventReceiver names to the two classes that it generates. It also generates two associated XML files for events which VSeWSS uses and when deploying/packaging the VSeWSS generates two feature.xml files under...(read more)

Sharepoint Lists and Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for Windows Sharepoint Services

2009-12-12T11:02:00Z

From the BB13 video you must have learned that you can create Sharepoint Custom Lists from Visual Studio is quite easy. The experience over all is not very great; as you have to edit the XML files. The easiest way however is that you create your Custom List using the Sharepoint web interface; and once the list is well established; script it out to Visual Studio Extensions for Windows Sharepoint Services (VSeWSS) format using the VseWss’ Solution Generator. Through this; you will get a VseWss PROJ...(read more)

Sharepoint Development with Visual Studio

2009-12-10T13:50:46Z

Sorry for not posting regularly lately; I was away busy learning/using/preaching and coaching about Silverlight and Sharepoint. All in all, it was great learning expereince! Sharepoint development is bit tricky to start with. Sharepoint is flexible and thus bit complicated to deal with. There are number of ways for Sharepoint Development. I opted to use Visual Studio Extensions for Windows Sharepoint Services (VseWss) whose latest version is v1.3 March 2009 CTP (Note its CTP; and has some issues)...(read more)

ASP.NET MVC 2

2009-10-28T07:59:37Z

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is recently made generally available to try and it has ASP.NET MVC2 Preview 2 out of box. In ASP.NET MVC2; there is a breaking change from ASP.NET MVC 1. The ASP.NET MVC ’ built in JSON support will only serve for POST request and discards GET requests due to JSON Vulnerability . Michael Campbell has written a detailed article on DevProConnections . The article and the links it has; are must read for AJAX developers using JSON. You don't need Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 to...(read more)

.NET 4: Parallel Programming – Cancelling/Exception Handling with Task Parallel Library

2009-10-23T20:45:00Z

There are lot of goodies in .NET 4 for Parallel Programming. There is even a separate dedicated section on it. The following picture from that section explains the four categories of improvement in Framework just for this. I mentioned earlier that previously I used Abortable Threadpool to implement cancelling work under specific condition. With ThreadPool we never had an easy way to queue the batch of work, know when that batch is completed and do exception handling properly. Things have significantly...(read more)