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TPH on Relationship

Matthieu Mezil — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:42:42 GMT

Matthieu Mezil writes, "The guy wants to keep the relationship and to have TPH inheritance on Customers.CustomerTypeId. So this means two mappings on Customers.CustomerTypeId which is forbidden. But we can do this with ssdl view:..This post shows you...the big interest of ssdl view: to make possible non-supported scenarii." more

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:42:42 GMT

TFS and FQDN Problem - Solution

Brian Harry — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:40:39 GMT

Brian Harry writes, "The problem has been isolated to a change in Windows 2003 SP1. The symptom is error messages that look like the following in your event log: Exception Message: TF30063: You are not authorized to access...understand the issue and learn how to correct it:" more

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:40:39 GMT

Changes to Server Application Licensing and Support for Hyper-V

Emma Healey — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:23:19 GMT

Emma Healey writes, "...We are evolving our licensing rules in response to their feedback and to keep pace with rapid innovation in (and adoption of) virtualisation technologies. Waiving the 90 day reassignment rule" more

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:23:19 GMT

Malicious FedEx Notification Emails

Don Patterson — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:50:49 GMT

Don Patterson writes, "...discovered a new campaign of malicious spam posing as FedEx notifications. The notifications claim to be from FedEx and explain that a package sent by the recipient in the past month was not delivered." more

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:50:49 GMT

Error Importing SQL Server 2005 Registered Servers to SQL Server 2008

Buck Woody — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:51:23 GMT

Buck Woody writes, "...if you use the "Import" feature in SQL Server 2008 and point it at the list of servers you exported from SQL Server 2005 using the "Export" feature, you'll get this error....But there is a solution:" more

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:51:23 GMT

How to Find Out if You Have the Final Version of SQL Server 2008 Installed

PSS SQL Engineers — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:51:37 GMT

PSS SQL Engineers writes, "When you use SQL Server Management Studio and select the Help/About menu choice to see what version you have, you may see something like this...So what does SQL_PreRelease mean? Don't I have the "released" SQL Server and not some pre-release?" more

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:51:37 GMT

Example Application for Webcam Support in Silverlight 2

Jonas Folleso — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:11:27 GMT

Jonas Folleso writes, "I’ve gotten a few requests to update the application for Silverlight 2 Beta 2. I have now done that...The new example application is called “Webcam Sliding Puzzle” and extends a picture puzzle game written by Cigdem Patlak and adds support for capturing pictures from your local webcam..." more

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:11:27 GMT

Database Mirroring Requires Transaction Log Backup

Greg Low — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:03:49 GMT

Greg Low writes, "...Somewhere along the way, the need to have a transaction log backup has crept in...This seems pointless behaviour and it didn't used to work that way. I have an RTM SQL Server 2005 in a virtual machine..." more

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:03:49 GMT

.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Allows Managed Code Launched From a Network Share

Brad Abrams — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:35:39 GMT

Brad Abrams writes, "Run off a network share with local permissions...We have brought managed executables in line with native code executables in how they behave when run off a network share..." more

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:35:39 GMT

Understanding the VS Option - Warn If No User Code On Launch

Sara Ford — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:59:59 GMT

Sara Ford writes, "you may have noticed on the Tools-Options-Debugging-General page the checkbox “Warn if no user code on launch” and might be wondering how to get into this state." more

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:59:59 GMT

Free AJAX Data Controls

Joe Stagner — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:47:23 GMT

Joe Stagner writes, "...Not only is there a controls library...but a RICH set of demos that illustrate utilization. I'm now using them in my own projects. Check 'em out !" more

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:47:23 GMT

Why Your Translation Log is Filling Up and the Solution

Paul Randal — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:38:19 GMT

Paul Randal writes, "One of the most common problems I see is the tranaction log filling up and the database grinding to a halt, and the most common cause of this is the lack of log backups when in the FULL recovery mode...two examples of filling up a transaction log plus the command to see why a transaction log is full..." more

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:38:19 GMT

Solution for VS 2008 Crashing After Installing Silverlight 2 Beta 2

Gill Cleeren — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:08:44 GMT

Gill Cleeren writes, "...Since the installation of Silverlight 2 Beta 2, I had been experiencing crashes of Visual Studio 2008. The crash always occured when shutting down Visual Studio, but only if I was working on a Silverlight application...found what the solution for the error is:" more

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:08:44 GMT

Code to Create Data Driven Subscriptions in SQL 2005 Standard Edition

Greg Low — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:07:39 GMT

Greg Low writes, "...You create a subscription to a report, using tokens for parameters, set the subscription to happen in the past and then execute it using this proc in a scheduled Agent job. The different approach I've taken is: 1. I've provided the ability to deal with a parameter list rather than a single parameter. 2. I found that the ntext columns actually only contained simple xml..." more

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:07:39 GMT

ISA Proxy Client May be Required to Download VS 2008 SP1

Heath Stewart — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:07:34 GMT

Heath Stewart writes, "...The VS2008 SP1 bootstrap application relies on the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS), falling back to WinHTTP then URLMon to download packages. BITS and Windows HTTP Services (WinHTTP) do not, by default, use Internet Explorer proxy settings. So even if you have Internet Explorer..." more

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:07:34 GMT

Workaround for Load Testing Bug in VS 2008 SP1 Release

Ed Glas — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:34:50 GMT

Ed Glas writes, "...I have to note, we found a serious regression in load tests last week that was introduced in SP1, but it was too late to fix it in SP1. The regression is that think times are not applied to requests that redirect. If you are doing web load testing, this problem will almost certainly impact the pace at which your vUsers run..." more

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:34:50 GMT

Some Known WCF Issues Related to the Orcas SP1 Release

Nicholas Allen — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:31:42 GMT

Nicholas Allen writes, "...WCF now specifies a default domain target name in Windows authentication scenarios. When upgrading, the client may see an authentication failure when the following conditions exist...When WSHttpBinding, WS2007HttpBinding, or NetTcpBinding is used with SecurityMode = TransportWithMessageCredential and a client credential type of Windows, clients that previously authenticated to a service by using NTLM will now fail to authenticate..." more

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:31:42 GMT

What do You do About Enumerations Crossing Service Boundaries

Jimmy Bogard — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:25:48 GMT

Jimmy Bogard writes, "....I've found different ways to represent enums in my model. Now, enums are just fine in lots of scenarios, but quite poor in others. There are other options I like to use when enumerations break down, and many times in the domain model... For example, I've seen quite a few models like this:" more

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:25:48 GMT

Behind the Scenes Installing RTM Version of SQL Server 2008

Steve Jones — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:22:38 GMT

Steve Jones writes, "...I was surprised that it wanted to install the .NET 3.5 framework since that was there in RC0 and I hadn't uninstalled it.So I let that install, rebooted, and then started the SQL Server installation. I picked the base product with iFTS, tools, and BOL,a and went on with my day, installing everything in the background. A few hours later it was done..." more

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:22:38 GMT

EyeOpener with EF: GetRelationTypeExpensiveWay

Julie Lerman — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:18:04 GMT

Julie Lerman writes, "In EF, when your entities are being managed by the objectContext, relationships are defined by separate objects...I had assumed that impacting relationships with methods of RelatedEnd or IRelatedEnd was not an option because of their dependence on the RelationshipManager which requires the ObjectContext...I was wrong..." more

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:18:04 GMT