Creating your base Virtual Machine- June 30, 2008 Keith Elder writes The purpose of this setup is to configure Windows Server 2008 as a development platform using VMWare...When starting from scratch I always create what I call a base virtual machine (VM). This VM serves as my base image for all of my needs and will be re-used for various setups. There are few things you need to keep in mind when you create a base image... more Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:38:20 GMThttp://teched.indepthtalk.net/News/23050.item 4 SQL Injection Rules when Implementing URLScan 3.0- June 27, 2008 Steve Schofield writes It is good to be aware when you are implementing URLScan 3.0 and sql injection rules, what to actually check for. These 4 options are outlined in the sample rules offered in the URLScan 3.0 docs. I posted a sample rule...showing where they show-up. more Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:52:59 GMThttp://teched.indepthtalk.net/News/23031.item How to choose the right SQL Server Agent job step type- June 25, 2008 Matthew Roche writes Microsoft has provided two different SQL Server Agent job step types that you can use...Now which one leaps out at you as being ideal for running SQL Server Integration Services packages...the answer... more Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:19:10 GMThttp://teched.indepthtalk.net/News/23001.item What happened to the Silverlight Watermark- June 24, 2008 Kathy Kam writes One breaking change you may have noticed between Silverlight 2 Beta 1 and Beta 2 is that WatermarkedTextBox is no longer available in the Silverlight SDK...Because the update to TextBox will not happen until a future version of Silverlight feel free download and use the WatermarkedTextBox source code and unit test in the mean time... Here is an example on how to use it: more Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:30:17 GMThttp://teched.indepthtalk.net/News/22987.item How to add your own files to the VS ImportExport Settings- June 23, 2008 Sara Ford writes If you go to the Reset page on the Tools Import Export Settings Wizard, youll see the list of files you can reset to. These settings files are the ones created by the VS teams. But, lets say that one of the default files just has some small option that just annoys you...or you want to add your own to the list... more Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:14:36 GMThttp://teched.indepthtalk.net/News/22975.item Frustrating error solved in Performance Point Monitoring- June 20, 2008 Darren Gosbell writes I could have solved this without having to resort to a web search. I have found that PerformancePoint has a few other non-specific error messages like this which are quite frustrating. I know there is the concept of not putting too much detail in the error messages for security reasons, but this error message is almost useless. Another interesting development that I stumbled across is that the Dashboard Designer does not even seem to know that it stores this setting......http://teched.indepthtalk.net/News/22958.item The SQLPS Firestorm- June 19, 2008 Dan Jones writes Within the PowerShell community there's a firestorm raging over SQLPS.exe our mini-shell that we're introducing in SQL2K8....I'm very proud of the work the team did in SQL2K8. Is everything perfect Absolutely not. Are we adding a ship load of value to the product Absolutely. If you don't like what we've down with PowerShell you're free to roll your own. PowerShell is an open environment for which you can register your own providers and build your own cmdlets. There's no...http://teched.indepthtalk.net/News/22941.item Example of how to limit the SharePoint People Picker List- June 18, 2008 Mauro Cardarelli writes Found another goodie in MOSS SP1...here is a new operation for stsadm available with SP1 called setsiteuseraccountdirectorypath. The setsiteuseraccountdirectorypath operation allows the user's directory path to be set to a specific OU in the same domain. After the directory path is set to a site collection, the People Picker control will only search under that particular OU. more Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:38:45 GMThttp://teched.indepthtalk.net/News/22927.item Beta of Live Messenger Embedded in a Web Page- June 16, 2008 Eileen Brown writes Its the beta of Live Messenger, embedded in a web page - any web page. My presence is enabled so you can chat to me whenever you see me online...All you need to do is to enable the IM control here and then paste the code onto your web page...So if any of you are thinking about helpdesk type enabled web pages for your customers, then this sort of control may be just what youre looking for to make that closer connection... more Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:39:44 GMThttp://teched.indepthtalk.net/News/22895.item Full Compact CheckBox Template with Sample Code- June 14, 2008 Mike Hillberg writes I was creating a view of an object that had a bunch of boolean properties, but I wanted to keep the visual representation small. So I created a look for a compact CheckBox...As an example scenario, say Im visualizing a the attributes of a file (hidden, system, archive, and read-only). I could do it with a TextBlock and some CheckBoxes easy enough, to create a look like this: more Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:25:53 GMThttp://teched.indepthtalk.net/News/22867.item |