SQL Server

Moving ASP.NET Web Application from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003

Stuart Radcliffe — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:35:00 GMT

One thing I have to remember.

The ASPNET user no longer exists and will not be used by the web application when accessing SQL Server. You will get an error - Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE'. This user does not seem to exist, though. It appears to be hidden but does exist inside the IIS_WPG group. If you add this group as your SQL Server Login and give it the access permissions previously enjoyed by ASPNET then it should work.

Changing the name of a SQL Server machine

Stuart Radcliffe — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:16:00 GMT

If you change the machine name of a machine with SQL Server installed, you need to do a few things in SQL Server after the machine name change. This article outlines those steps. The article applies to SQL Server 7.0, 2000 and 2005.

Changing the name of a SQL Server machine

Clear All Connections to a SQL Server Database

Stuart Radcliffe — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 09:54:00 GMT

We have a requirement to restore a database every night to a back up copy. This back-up copy will have people using it at times so there may be active connections that will stop the restore job from taking place. To get around this problem, we add some Transact-SQL to the restore job to clear all connections to the database. This Transact-SQL code looks like this:

use master

declare @vcdbname varchar(50)

Set @vcdbname = 'DatabaseName'

set nocount on

declare Users cursor for

select spid

from master..sysprocesses

where db_name(dbid) = @vcdbname

declare @spid int, @str varchar(255)

open users

fetch next from users into @spid

while @@fetch_status <> -1

begin

if @@fetch_status = 0

begin

set @str = 'kill ' + convert(varchar, @spid)

exec (@str)

end

fetch next from users into @spid

end

deallocate users

MSDE Manager

Stuart Radcliffe — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 08:47:00 GMT

MSDE Manager
Free for personal use program that allows you to run scripts and do some simple managemnt on MSDE databases.

Recent Links

Stuart Radcliffe — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 11:05:00 GMT

Office Developer Center: Deploying Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Solutions Using Windows Installer: Walkthroughs (Part 2 of 2)
This article, the second of two, provides two walkthroughs about deploying a Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System solution using a Visual Studio Setup project to create a Windows Installer package.

Office Developer Center: Deploying Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Solutions Using Windows Installer (Part 1 of 2)
This article targets developers who want to deploy a Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System solution using a Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Setup project to create a Windows Installer package.

ComputerZen.com - Scott Hanselman - Virtual Machines and External Hard Drive throughput
The conclusion is that either USB 2.0 or Firewire are both very reasonable solution for the power user's external HD needs when running Virtual Machines.

City-wide wi-fi rolls out in UK
The Cloud will bring wireless broadband to nine cities including London, Manchester and Birmingham.

Make VSTO for Outlook solutions run right off the MSI
There are a couple of things you've got to do manually to make a Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 application run straight off the MSI.

PCQuest : Developer : Introducing Windows Mobile 5.0
The latest release of this development platform for mobiles and hand-helds adds new capabilities like Pocket Outlook Object Model and System Event Notification.

InTheHand.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook
Pocket Outlook In The Hand is a wrapper library around the Pocket Outlook Object Model (POOM). This namespace is equivalent to Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook namespace in Windows Mobile 5.0.

Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook
The Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook namespace provides classes that allow you to create and access PIM data items (Appointments, Tasks, and Contacts), and MAPI messaging items (e-mail and SMS messages), on Pocket PCs and Smartphones.

System.Net.Mail, OH MY!
FAQ for System.NET.Mail namespace.

GridView: Adding Confirmation before Deleting Items (using the OnClientClick property)
A pretty easy way to add confirmation pop-ups for delete command (or update or edit or any other command) using a GridView control, or before any other post-back event in ASP.NET.

Paging through lots of data efficiently (and in an Ajax way) with ASP.NET 2.0
This sample is a self-contained ASP.NET application that demonstrates a few things:

Stop Those Annoying Outlook Warning Messages
Turn on and off in code.

Welcome to Outlook Exchange
This code will load a ComboBox with sorted data from a Contacts folder.

Core JavaScript Reference 1.5: - Dates
Lots of information and examples about working with dates in Javascript

Thau's JavaScript Tutorial - Functions with More Than 1 Parameter

Thau's JavaScript Tutorial - Text Fields
Text fields understand onBlur, onFocus, and onChange.

HTML / JavaScript Reference - mredkj.com
Intro to JS - Basics, Variables, SCRIPT tag

HTML/JavaScript - Select list - Add/Remove Options (Old School) - mredkj.com
Functions to insert, append, and remove options from a multiple select list.

Advanced Basics: The Sound of Music -- MSDN Magazine, January 2006
Prior to working with Visual Studio® 2005, adding even simple tunes and system sounds to your application could be a challenge. There are numerous new classes and namespaces that have been added to the Microsoft® .NET Framework 2.0 to help you do just t

ASP.NET Development Center: Turning an .ascx User Control into a Redistributable Custom Control
With previous versions of ASP.NET, developers had to decide whether to create custom controls or user controls. This article looks at a method for easily creating custom controls from existing user controls (ASCX files).

Unit Testing Tips: Write Maintainable Unit Tests That Will Save You Time And Tears -- MSDN Magazine, January 2006
In this article, I'll try to bring you some of the most important practices I've learned over the years while developing and consulting, and while training developers. These tips should help you write effective, maintainable, and robust unit tests.

NUnit 2.2.4: .NET 2.0 Support, Extensibility Support and new Asserts and Attributes
New release of the top .NET Unit Test facility.

Cool SQL Server and SQL Express Command-Line Utility

Microsoft Webcasts

Stuart Radcliffe — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:51:00 GMT

Overview page of all of Microsoft's Webcast offerings.

Another exam down

Stuart Radcliffe — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 18:19:00 GMT

Passed Exam 70–229: Designing and Implementing Databases with Microsoft SQL Server™ 2000 Enterprise Edition.

Now on to Exam 70–310: Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework.

Problems after installing Windows XP SP2

Stuart Radcliffe — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 08:45:00 GMT

A couple of Microsoft KB articles on problems after installing Windows XP SP2.

842242 - Some programs seem to stop working after you install Windows XP Service Pack 2

Description of the known issues with using Outlook Web Access on a Windows XP SP2-based computer

Microsoft Moving Away from ADPs in Access

Stuart Radcliffe — Fri, 06 Aug 2004 08:01:00 GMT

Kent Tegels quotes Mary Chipman (who wrote the book) in the SSXE newsgroup as saying that Microsoft are now recommending moving away from ADP based solutions. It looks like this may be an experiment that has not been completely successful which leaves those of us who have implemented these solutions with an interesting support problem going forward. Here is the quote:

However, for new application development, ADPs aren't looking so promising, especially if you are thinking in the Yukon timeframe. A couple of problematical issues are complex data types and CLR assemblies. Tackling these head-on in the ADP UI graphical tools in the next version of Access is a daunting challenge, to say the least.

...and...

FWIW, the Access team has moved away from recommending ADPs as a front-end to SQLS apps over the last year or so, based on several public talks given by team members at industry conferences. If you are contemplating new development with Access as a FE to a SQLS BE, you'll likely be ahead of the game with an efficiently-designed MDB/linked table solution rather than an ADP.

Connection String Generator

Stuart Radcliffe — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 14:53:00 GMT

Useful when you can't quite remember that setting...

http://ambroise.neve.be/library/content/oledb.asp

UPDATE:

Lots more info here.