Every developer located in Austria or nearby Vienna should hurry and register for the MiX Essentials event held in May in Vienna, Austria.

The details:

Monday, May, 19th 2008 09:00 - Moday, May 19th 2008 17:00

Siemensforum
Dietrichgasse 25
Vienna 1030
Austria 

For registeration visit the Event homepage of the Microsoft Austria Website.

The QTTabBar is a simple but powerful AddOn which gives you seamless integration of tabbed browsing of folders and directories right out of your standard Windows Explorer.

It works on Windows XP (with installed .NET framework 2.0 ) and Windows Vista.

And the best: it is absolutly free! Go and get it...

After some research i found a fairly simple solution:

public const int WM_MOUSEWHEEL = 0×020A;

protected override void WndProc(ref Message m) 

{

     if (m.HWnd != this.Handle)       

     {            

            return;       

     } 

      switch (m.Msg)    

      {           

            case Win32Messages.WM_MOUSEWHEEL:

                  if( ! <your condition goes here> )

                  {

                         return;  

                  }               

                  break;           

            default:               

                  break;       

      }

      base.WndProc(ref m);  

}

Hope this helps!

My good friend Peter Schneider has just posted an old but nice effect made with Silverlight.

Check it out here! (Note: the source code can be found as attachment of the post!)

Just save the following script to a file called SaveToFolderHack.reg:

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It will first be made available to MSDN Subscribers all others will follow...

UPDATE: Visual Studio was just released today! You just have to get it from MSDN and get started!

You can get your version here: Powershell 2.0 CTP

Some of the features in this release:

•  PowerShell Remoting

•  Graphical PowerShell

•  ScriptCmdlets

•  Restricted Runspaces

•  RunspacePools

•  Background Jobs

•  Data Language

•  Script Internationalization

•  Script Debugging

•  24 New Cmdlets

•  Parser Tokenizer API

•  New PowerShell Hosting APIs

•  Metadata APIs for Command and Parameters

Some of the features mentioned require special settings on your maschine so please pay attention to the following posts:

What´s new?
Requirements
Versioning

Hope this helps!

But there are some limitations and pitfalls when it comes to making changes in the structure of the underlying tables/views:

- If a view depends on a table or view that was dropped, the Database Engine produces an error message when anyone tries to use the view.

- If a new table or view is created and the table structure does not change from the previous base table to replace the one dropped, the view again becomes usable.

- If the new table or view structure changes, the view must be dropped and re-created

- Instead of dropping and recreating the view you can also run sp_refreshview specifying the view name

Syntax for sp_refreshview:

sp_refreshview ’[your_viewname]’

Hope this helps!

SQL Server gives you the system stored procedure sp_spaceused which does exactly this.

To retrieve the current size of your database you could execute

exec sp_spaceused

in SQL Server Management studio or in the SQL Server console and you should get a resultset containing the current total rows count, the reserved disk space, the current space used by data and the space used by indexes.

If you want to know the facts about a specific database object like a table you could execute the statemenmt:

exec sp_spaceused ’<your_tabgle_name>’

where <your_table_name> is the common table name of the desired table.

The resultset will contain only facts about the specified database object.

You could use the information to automatically shrink or expand your database disk files (if your sql server is not configured to do it itself yet!)  or you could also hunt possible "space wasters" in you database!

Hope this helps!

Can you already see the ring (world)? ;-)

Watch Scott Guthrie and other Microsoft guys teaching the essentials to get up to speed with Visual Studio 2008.

The site will be updated frequently so keep watching....

1. Ensure that you have a clean VS.NET 2008 BETA2 build VPC/Installation.

The VPC image can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3B72271C-E996-4989-898D-72D684966CE6&displaylang=en

Remember: You also need the Visual Studio Code Name Orcas Base Image from here in order to run the VPC.

2. Download and install the Silverlight 1.1 runtime components from http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/license-win-dev.aspx#2_10

3. Download and install the Microsoft Silverlight Tools Alpha Refresh for Visual Studio (July 2007) from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B52AEB39-1F10-49A6-85FC-A0A19CAC99AF&displaylang=en

Additionally you can install:

4. Download and the Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 Software Development Kit (SDK) for Alpha Refresh from http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/eula.aspx?id=c8bf88e7-841c-43fd-c63d-379943617f36

5. Download and install Expression Blend 2 August Preview from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=69540337-B619-4A47-AC27-52D8AF3A7830&displaylang=en

6. Microsoft Expression Media Encoder Preview Update  from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=89148&clcid=0x409

7. Microsoft Expression Design from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=79077&clcid=0x409

NOTE:

If you are not installing the runtime and tools in the given order you will experience several strange issues like the one described here!

If you experience any problems feel free to post a comment.

The engine saves the information by default to the SQL Server error logs.

1. Use the deadlock graph

   You can use the SQL server Profiler and enable the deadlock graph monitoring for a new profiling session.

2. Enable trace flags

   By using trace flags SQL Server enables you to output more detailed data about some of the system events.
   When using the trace flag 1204 you will get detailed information about deadlocks in a more textual way.
   The trace flag 1222 gets you the same data but in a simple, but not XDS schema compatible XML way.

   
   To enable a trace flag on SQL Server you could start the engine using the /T paramater to define the flag to be set to true.
   or you could execute the follwoing command: "DBCC TRACEON(1204)"

   
   To verify the current status of a specific trace flag you could execute the statement: "DBCC TRACESTATUS (xxx)".

   The statement "DBCC TRACESTATUS (1204)" would return the current value of the deadlock trace flag.

This build includes updates and fixes made since the Beta 3 release earlier this year, and also includes the previously announced IIS7 on Server Core configuration.

There is also a great article available describing the steps needed to get IIS7 started on Windows Server Core.

UPDATE:

Currently there is no support for ASP.NET when using IIS7 on Windows Server Core because the .NET framework is not supported at all.

Keep that in mind when thinking about using this II7 option!

Along with lots of great code samples for .NET developers this is especially helpful for developers who seek for information about .NET integration with IIS7 and how to take advantage of the new integrated HTTP pipeline.

Get the whitepaper directly from here: http://www.catalystss.com/Articles/Advanced Development on IIS7.pdf or read about the ASP.NET Integration with IIS7
 

You can download your free copy here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/9/4/a94270c7-ed16-4c72-8280-658c66315719/Windows Powershell - EN.zip