From the monthly archives: April 2009

Announcing vNext User Group

On April 29, 2009 · 8 Comments

As developers we are always excited about latest technologies, and as a developer working in Microsoft eco-system there is no shortage of new tools and technologies. This is the driving point behind starting vNext User Group. The group aims to share knowledge about offerings from Microsoft which are in pipeline i.e they are to be [...]

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SSMS Tools For SQL Server 2008

On April 27, 2009 · 2 Comments

SSMS Tools Pack is a must have add-in for SQL Server Management Studio. It comes packed with a great set of features which as the author says on his site “…were missing from Management Studio”. Here is run down of three features I use most.

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If SSMS Tools Pack had only one [...]

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Outlook 2007 Hotfix

On April 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment

If you have been having issues with Outlook 2007 related to performance, erratic behaviour and just annoyance in general then this hotfix maybe what you need. Released in February 2007 the patch fixes many issues which can make working with Outlook 2007 a punishment. I installed it today morning and it’s been working fine and [...]

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Capture XML In WCF Service

On April 1, 2009 · 21 Comments

Working on a project where we wrote WCF Services a need was identified to capture the raw xml passed in to the service operation and also capture the reply xml sent back by the service. WCF does not provide such facility out of the box but it can be easily implemented using behaviours. In this [...]

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