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 This is Part 2 of the 12 routines for a Windows Server 2008 user to accelerate the learning and adoption of Windows Server 2012 without the need of a touch device. It is intended for those who are familiar with the administration of Windows Server 2008 (or later) to become comfortable ...May. 15, 2012 12:32 PM EDT Reads: 383 |
 This article details 12 routines for a Windows Server 2008 user to accelerate the learning and adoption of Windows Server 2012 without the need of a touch device. It is intended for those who are familiar with the administration of Windows Server 2008 (or later) to become comfortable w...May. 14, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 670 |
 Yesterday we attended mobile hackathon sponsored by Microsoft and PhoneGap. The goal was to build a PhoneGap app and install in on Windows Phone. We used Tiggzi App Builder, PhoneGap Build and very quickly installed an app on Windows Phone. Apr. 25, 2012 02:45 AM EDT Reads: 820 |
 All systems require a degree of monitoring. We monitor on premise installations for usage, performance, outages, tracing, and for a multitude of other reasons. Services which are deployed on premise operate in a controlled environment. The organisation’s IT team is very much aware of w...Apr. 10, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,193 |
 As you start to scale a software development process it becomes apparent that code and user stories have to be merged more frequently. Sometimes changes may flow from one organization to another. This means that you will need to take code from one team, merge, integrate and test those ...Mar. 8, 2012 05:50 AM EST Reads: 975 |
 Perfect for those people looking to get into WPF, Silverlight, or XAML for Windows (Windows 8) development.
I have read a lot of the WPF and Silverlight books out there and there are some good ones. The difference I find with this book is that it is XAML centric so the scope is more i...Jan. 27, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 1,259 |
 In a previous PBDJ article, we looked at using a third-party control, a ribbon control in particular, in a PowerBuilder WPF target. One of the other “most requested” features people have asked for is the capability to provide docking windows in their PowerBuilder applications. In this ...Aug. 16, 2011 10:02 AM EDT Reads: 3,400 Replies: 1 |
 I will demonstrate how to ARP poison a connection between a Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 Server using Cain.
The Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) provides remote display and input capabilities over network connections for Windows-based applications running on a server. RDP is ...Jul. 15, 2011 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,710 |
 The benefits of unit testing such as shortening the development time, reducing development costs and releasing higher quality products, are well known. Below you can see a Software testing guide about how to start unit testing .NET projects.
The first tool you need is a testing framew...Jun. 3, 2011 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,884 |
 The book also covers topics I have not seen covered elsewhere.
Pros include covering a wide variety of topics and they provide a lot of very helpful lists. Especially when comparing SharePoint 2010 Foundation, SharePoint 2010 Standard, and SharePoint 2010 Enterprise. The lists are one...Mar. 7, 2011 03:50 PM EST Reads: 2,200 |
 I’ve written a number of articles in the past on using .NET components, both visual and non-visual, from a PowerBuilder “Classic” (i.e., Win32) application. Until now, all of them involved using a .NET component that was either provided in the .NET Framework or created using Visual Stu...Jan. 11, 2011 06:30 AM EST Reads: 4,691 |
 After spending a lot of time focusing on Client-Side Web 2.0 Performance Problems it is time to focus on specific Server-Side Performance Problems. Last week I worked with a client that runs a custom application on Microsoft CRM 4.0 and experienced performance problems in their test en...Sep. 15, 2010 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 5,040 |
 One of the things that PowerBuilder developers have been asking for years is the ability to include state-of-the-art graphic elements in their applications. With the advent of WPF Targets in PowerBuilder.NET 12.0, that capability has finally arrived.
You can do quite a bit with the n...Sep. 10, 2010 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,145 |
 A client of ours recently contacted me with the question: We use Keynote, WebPagetest and dynaTrace AJAX – but we get different results with these tools/services. WebPagetest tells us that our page is very slow – but dynaTrace on my local machine does not. What can be the problem here?...Aug. 16, 2010 04:26 PM EDT Reads: 4,717 |
 Owing to the ever increasing penetration of email communication within enterprises and an assorted array of dedicated email clients (like Lotus Notes, Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook, etc), online market now has abundance of email conversion tools. These email migration software ... May. 12, 2010 04:55 AM EDT Reads: 1,819 |
 SharePoint is without question a fast-growing platform and Microsoft is making lots of money with it. It’s been around for almost a decade and grew from a small list and document management application into an application development platform on top of ASP.NET using its own API to mana...Apr. 13, 2010 01:33 PM EDT Reads: 3,941 |
 You might have been using Microsoft Outlook email client and due to some advantages of using Lotus Notes, you might be feeling the need to switch from Outlook to Notes. This switch will necessitate you to convert Outlook emails to Notes and transfer all other Outlook email data stored ...Feb. 22, 2010 02:00 AM EST Reads: 1,950 |
 There’s a lot of “legacy” PowerBuilder code that you might want to access from .NET applications or perhaps PowerBuilder has some superior functionality that you would like to make use of in a .NET application. Think about how easy it would be to create a report in PowerBuilder with a ...Jan. 11, 2010 03:30 PM EST Reads: 5,744 |
 Access Recovery exceeds all your expectations in every aspect of performing MS Access Database Repair. The software repairs almost all database components and is compatible with almost all latest Windows operating systems including, Windows 7. The read only software supports Access 200...Jan. 4, 2010 08:30 AM EST Reads: 4,053 |
 MySQL is an advanced and user-friendly MySQL Repair software that repairs tables created with MyISAM and InnoDB MySQL database storage engines. Designed for Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000 operating systems, the repair software is compatible with MySQL 5.x and 4.x.Dec. 30, 2009 09:30 AM EST Reads: 2,545 |
 The metadata structure of Microsoft SQL database is divided into numerous allocation units, such as, IAM (Index Allocation Map) pages, GAM (Global Allocation Map) pages, SGAM (Shared Global Allocation Map), or PFS (Page Free Space) pages. Corruption in any of the above pages primarily ...Dec. 29, 2009 04:00 AM EST Reads: 1,874 |
 The occurrence of an error message while mounting, accessing, or closing an MS Access database indicates that there is some problem with the database.
In most cases, such problems primarily occur due to corruption or damage in database. A damaged database does not allows the user to...Dec. 29, 2009 02:05 AM EST Reads: 1,897 |
 Please note you should uninstall previous versions of CloudBerry Online Backup if you ever had it before. CloudBerry S3 Backup for Windows Home Server is WHS add-on that automates data backup and restore to online storage powered by Amazon S3 cloud storage. It comes with onetime fee of...Nov. 29, 2009 09:00 AM EST Reads: 3,757 |
 Integrating data into applications or reports is one of the most important, expensive and exacting activities in building enterprise data warehousing and reporting applications. SQL Server Integration Services which first appeared in MS SQL Server 2005 and continued into MS SQL Server ...Nov. 29, 2009 12:45 AM EST Reads: 3,129 |
 Each physical disk is partitioned into several partitions. The disk MBR (Master Boot Record) and optionally EBRs (Extended Boot Records) hold the metadata information of these partitions. These tables collectively form partition table.Nov. 24, 2009 10:00 AM EST Reads: 8,244 |
 Microsoft SharePoint is a fantastic tool for enterprise document management and collaboration. But having said that, there are challenges that come up when integrating this system into your corporate disaster recovery planning. In this article, I'd like to explore some of these challen...Nov. 23, 2009 01:00 PM EST Reads: 2,967 |
 When you install Windows on a computer system that uses Intel x86-based processor, the chances that its key boot files become corrupted. Windows uses four basic boot files on an Intel x86-based system.Nov. 11, 2009 03:30 AM EST Reads: 1,954 |
 Sometimes when you start your Windows computer or while working on it, the operating system can not read the drive and shows some error messages. If the problem occurs with C drive, then system does not boot up and all of the data stored on your Windows hard drive become inaccessible.Oct. 9, 2009 12:36 PM EDT Reads: 4,639 |
 When the disk controller gets damaged or it fails, hard drive become inaccessible, undetectable in BIOS and renders the system unbootable. Same problem may also occur if your hard drive is malfunction due to either logical or physical problems. It might result into serious data loss an...Oct. 9, 2009 12:36 PM EDT Reads: 2,742 |
 You may not be aware of this, but Microsoft now provides a rather powerful charting control free of charge as an add-in for .NET 3.5. It’s available for download at http://xrl.us/ben3pm. Because it supports 35 different chart types (see Figure 1), it can add significant new charting ca...Aug. 27, 2009 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 6,015 Replies: 1 |
 As a long-time PB developer, I have successfully created or maintained many PB applications for clients and for myself. Since day one, I was impressed with the ease with which applications can be created using PowerBuilder. Although I had been exposed to Visual Studio and other client/...Aug. 27, 2008 03:36 PM EDT Reads: 8,125 |
 I've always been puzzled by the ability of some traders to consistently make money. A cynic would say that anyone who is able to profit in all adverse economic environments (recessions, depressions, etc.) is most likely able to do so because they are getting information that is not gen...May. 30, 2008 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 7,710 |
 CLINQ v1.1 has been released. Some of you may have already downloaded some of the new builds, but here's a rundown of what the new release includes: Support for Continuous Aggregation. Now, in addition to being able to have your result sets automatically update themselves in response t...May. 2, 2008 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 7,100 |
 Microsoft recently released the Interop Forms Toolkit 2.0 in order to allow 'developers to incorporate VB.NET Forms and Controls into their VB6 applications' (www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=934de3c5-dc85-4065-9327-96801e57b81d&DisplayLang=en).Oct. 8, 2007 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 9,657 |
Adobe Flex Builder has many convenient keyboard commands and hints that make your programming faster. But this is a list of Flex Builder shortcuts that I use on a regular basis Jul. 21, 2006 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 24,474 Replies: 2 |
 It's been a few months since Visual Studio 2005 was released. In that time you've probably seen and read quite a bit about generics. Unfortunately all those articles and presentations can leave you with the impression that generics are useful only in the context of collections (List, D...Apr. 17, 2006 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 19,556 |
 If you work in a .NET environment you have probably come across Base64 encoded data. For example, Base64 encoding is used in ASP.NET for a Web application's ViewState value, as shown in Figure 1. Base64 encoding is also used to transmit binary data over e-mail. However, if you are like...Mar. 19, 2006 09:00 AM EST Reads: 60,018 Replies: 3 |
 In this article, we're going to look at how DataWindow.NET technology is a simpler but more powerful way of formatting data in the presentation layer. We'll be taking a sample application provided by Microsoft for .NET and implementing it using DataWindow.NET technology.Feb. 3, 2006 02:00 PM EST Reads: 33,173 Replies: 11 |
 Here's a question: If you write your application's code in an OO language - such as C#, VB.NET, or managed C++ - why not write database query and update code in the same language? It would certainly make life simpler, wouldn't it? At the very least, you'd only have to hold one language...Jan. 22, 2006 02:00 PM EST Reads: 17,792 Replies: 2 |
 I've tried to make it a point to learn different programming languages throughout my career. It's not that I'm fluent in multiple languages (for example, I wouldn't call myself an Eiffel expert by any stretch of the imagination), but by learning about a language's features and ideas I'...Dec. 3, 2005 11:15 PM EST Reads: 9,731 Replies: 1 |
