Khurram Aziz

Knowing the counts of table entries in SQL Server

khurram — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 08:54:00 GMT

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

khurram — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 16:46:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Sharepoint–File Not Found

khurram — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 16:30:45 GMT

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...(read more)

ASP.NET MVC 2 Strongly Typed HTML Helpers

khurram — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:45:27 GMT

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...(read more)

Active Directory Application Mode

khurram — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:18:24 GMT

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...(read more)

Why Microsoft Dynamics GP 10 Workflow is Joke?

khurram — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:43:00 GMT

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...(read more)

UserVoice – ASP.NET and Silverlight Teams are listening!

khurram — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:07:10 GMT

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

khurram — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:41:07 GMT

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...(read more)

Windows Phone 7 - The Real Smart Phones?

khurram — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:11:30 GMT

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...(read more)

Sharepoint and SQL Server Reporting Services

khurram — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:02:00 GMT

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...(read more)

VSeWSS – Sharepoint Event Receivers

khurram — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:10:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Sharepoint Lists and Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for Windows Sharepoint Services

khurram — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:02:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Sharepoint Development with Visual Studio

khurram — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:50:46 GMT

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...(read more)

ASP.NET MVC 2

khurram — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:59:37 GMT

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...(read more)

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

khurram — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:45:00 GMT

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...(read more)