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We met at Staples.

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I'm trying to fix my dad's website, after his gallery suffered a sql injection and his database is no longer with us. I needed to check if port 2077 was open on the server to map a folder as a drive on my windows explorer after a few problems with my ftp connection timing out. To make the story short, how to enable the telnet client on Vista: Go to Control Panel. Go to Programs. Go to Program and

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I spent most of the day trying to improve performance on an application. We use NHibernate 2.0 and try to lazy load most of the collections. I found these two links very useful for troubleshooting my performance issue: http://djeeg.blogspot.com/2006/08/nhibernateutilisinitialized.html and the NHibernate reference: http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/nhibernate/html/performance.html The curious

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We have a merge topology in place with pull subscriptions, this is the merge agent runs at the subscribers. One of our subscriptions in had the error that the merge process couldn't find the server. The server was there and the ping was fine, also the Replication Monitor was able to register the error with the x mark. The details of the ertor are as follows: Command attempted: {call

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Right now I'm swamped making reports in SSRS 2005. Even though that might be considered a junior's task I found it interesting. Last time I created report templates was 10 years ago with Quick Reports and VB 6 in the late 1990s :-p My team recommended SSRS over Crystal Reports and VTO mainly because we have had a previous bad experience with word templates for report generation and really liked

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I published a post with the wrong title. It was Compressed snapshot check makes it fail on one subscriber However the file dynsnapvalidation.tok appears inside the partitioned snapshot whether you select snapshot compression or not. This .tok file shows up if you create data partitions per parameterized filter.

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If you deploy your .NET applications with a batch file, be aware that the way you call your .NET application might affect how it behaves. The facts are as follows (for our application anyways): when the application is called using the following line in the batch file: start C:\Progra~1\ApplicationFolder\Application.exe the application fails if you call the application using the windows

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I ran into a problem the other day, one of the .NET applications we had deployed started crashing on some screens for no apparent reason. The application worked fine in the development environment and when called from the C drive in the test machine. We tested for binding problems using the SDK tool fuslogvw.exe, but didn't see any binding errors. The other SDK tool we tried was the .NET

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Last week we made a utility for the release team to convert all the t-sql script files from any encoding to ANSI. Now we convert any encoding to Unicode, but the original request was to use ANSI encoding. The .NET code we used basically opens with a StreamReader that detects encoding, opens a StreamWriter to a new file with Encoding.Default (now Encoding.Unicode) and writes the content read by

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As this blog has my personal bread crumbs I thought I would better record this. We have problems with our merge replication topology (SQL Server 2005 9.0.3228 Publisher and Dist and SQLE 9.0.3228 as Subscribers, pull subscriptions) the other day as we switched to compressed snapshots. I posted the problem in the forum and searched the books about it without luck... Here's the problem We

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I found this very good article that answered part of the questions I had on my previous post. The part that is enlightening regarding WSCF as how despite that it might be less productive than Code-first, might offer better Interop in the long run is: What? Code-first is interoperable? Well sure! You generate schema from code, proxies consume schema and generate a representation of the schema

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I know we .NET developers have been spoiled for a while. We go on VS2005 and create a new web site project, select the type of project as web service and voila, we land on a page where we can start typing new methods for this class and mark them as web methods with a single annotation. VS2005 does all the plumbing for us creating the wsdl and even publishing the web service for us with another

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It's 0xFF on a Byte. 0x2B | ~0x2B = 0xFF

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Today I received a phishing email from an account in Google. What is sad is that Google wants to protect its clients so badly that there is no trace of the client's IP on the email headers. All you see is the Google's IP. This, imho, is not right. I want to see the sender, if the sender is so concerned about his/her IP being exposed, he/she sure will know enough to hide it. This is not Google's

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On Windows based enterprise with Active Directory it is very usual to use AD groups to reinforce access lists/authentication within enterprise applications/services/databases and mashups. If you're lost at why you cannot access some application to take a look at, and that application uses integrated security, you're better off knowing which AD group your username is associated with... On the OS

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VB.NET and C# Comparison Java (J2SE 5.0) and C# Comparison C# vs Ruby Smackdown!log4net vs EL 1.0 SQL Server 2000 vs Oracle 9i A Comparison of PL/SQL and Transact SQL and last but not least: Comparison of SOA Suites Note there is an ESB implementation from P&P for BizTalk 2006 R2 that sort of leverage the missing functionality in the product: ESB Guidance for BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Ok,

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Tips and tricks: You can install any hotfix in silent mode passing the parameter /quiet to the executable in the command prompt or in a batch file. This is extremely helpful if you want to push the hotfix installation with a third party tool and without the wizard interface The /? parameter will give you the rest of the options for installing the hotfix. A very useful option is /allinstancesYou

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Oh my, the end users are going to get really entertained with this bug. I'm trying to present images as icons on a list view and the end user should drag and drop the image to the desired location inside the list view to have their list ordered. Unfortunately no matter to which position you drag and drop the image, the image is always placed at the end. I found a forum post about this with no

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Now that caffeine is taking effect: I attended the Heroes Happen Here event in Toronto last week. The event was fun in general, lots of marketing going on so the developers get really biased, towards Microsoft technologies, of course... Not that this is necessarily a bad thing, as long as you keep your mind open to what's going on on other development niches and keep the constructive criticism. I

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Yay! The fix is in there. Please see previous post for the original bug description. We had problems when not using partition groups on our merge replication topology, whenever there were batch deletions caused by filtering those rows were deleted at the publisher during the next replication. The faulty stored procedure was sp_MSdelsubrowsbatch The faulty line of code, believe it or not, a

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Hi DBAs and Database Developers out there, Finally the long awaited CU#6 was released on Feb 18th near mid night. 946608 Cumulative update package 6 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;946608 I'm currently testing our merge replication issues with this CU. Even though the bug described in the DevX article is not in the KB article list, we

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Back in Sept 2007 I blogged about the problem we were having with the identity range in merge replication:@@identity not working after SQL Server 2005 upgrade The problem continued until today, this post is to explain what we figured out. The error message that describes this problem reads as follows: [548] The insert failed. It conflicted with an identity range check constraint in database '

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Hi Developer that wanders the internet searching for the solution to your bug. Take a brief moment and vote for us, bunch of developers who also wander the internet to search solutions for our bugs and blog about them to help others :) Microsoft Canada and TechNet Innovation Code Awards We'll be good and post more on our blog, interesting, good stuff :-p Kidding, let the code prevail! Oh,

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Hi all, As I mentioned in my previous post, i would provide details of the data loss scenarios in Merge Replication topologies with SQL Server 2005. The details were published in this addendum to the original DevX article: UPDATED SQL Server 2005 Bug Alert: Data Loss in Merge Replication the article is basically two repros to illustrate the data loss when the partition groups are not use in

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I haven't blogged in a while, mostly due to my workload that has sky rocketed. My most recent challenge is with SQL Server 2005 Merge Replication. We have had quite a few undesirable effects when we upgraded our subscribers from ole good MSDE to SQL Server Express. The side effects led to data loss and emergency fixes, in a really chaotic way. This data loss didn't happen with MSDE. The article

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