By Markus Ehrenmüller-Jensen on Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Die Big>Days 2010 kommen ...

... immer näher (http://www.microsoft.com/austria/events/bigdays2010/). Sind Sie schon angemeldet?

Ich darf heuer gemeinsam mit Martin Pöckl (Microsoft) einen Vortrag zum Thema Mit BI-Lösungen Daten entscheidungsgerecht aufbereiten" halten und aus der Beschreibung zitieren:
"BI ist nicht mehr die Elitedisziplin, die von einigen wenigen im Unternehmen praktiziert wird: Stellen Sie sich vor, die Endanwender könnten in der vertrauten Office-Oberfläche ihre Berichte und Analysen einfach und performant selbst erstellen. Sie als IT-Spezialist behalten dabei den Überblick und könne ... Read More »

By Rainer Stropek on 8/21/2009

Yesterday we hat the phone conference with the judges for our contribution in the final round of Microsoft's worldwide Dare To Dream Different Contest. Read More »

By b.kragl on 8/13/2009 7:09 AM

Yesterday, it took me quite some time to find out, why a program couldn't access a registry value, since exactly the same code worked in a test program.

The problem was, that I'm running a x64 system and the program, for some reason, has platform target x86. After finding out, that there is regedit.exe (for the "x64 registry) and regedt.32.exe (for the "x86 registry") and adding the value also to the x86 registry, everythin worked fine.

So be careful with your target platform setting when accessing the windows registry!

By b.kragl on 8/3/2009 9:16 AM

To automatically run a subst command on every Windows startup (e.g. get a virtual drive for your development folder), you can edit the Windows Registry as follows:

Add a string value to the key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" and set the value to the subst command you need.

E.g. Subst = subst k: c:\projects

By b.kragl on 7/29/2009 9:08 AM

http://blog.cpugeni.com/archive/2008/09/22/microsoft-sql-server-management-studio-2008-error-916.aspx

By m.unterauer on 7/7/2009

How-to get the total size of all database files for each database in an sql server 2005 instance. Read More »

By Markus Ehrenmüller-Jensen on Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Synonms are a great feature of SQL Server (introduced in version 2005). I’m using them in most of my projects for staying independent of database names (eg. when using a table stored in the staging area database in a procedure stored in the datawarehouse database).

Synonms work fine with SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE and EXECUTE statements.

Unfortunatly this list does not contain TRUNCATE TABLE (which I prefer instead of DELETE because of performance reasons). But mixing synonyms and original names, using synonyms in some places, but original names in other places, would be a nonsens (I would get independent of database names in some places only, but not in others).

 

Here comes my workaround: Read More »

By Stefan Kitzler-Walli on Friday, April 03, 2009 6:31 AM

Yesterday the Micrsoft Sharepoint Team announced that Microsoft Sharepoint Designer is now available as a free download!
For details see the following link: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/04/02/sharepoint-designer-available-as-a-free-download.aspx

Have a nice day!

By Stefan Kitzler-Walli on Saturday, March 14, 2009 11:56 AM

Testing with the correct privileges in SharePoint can be a painful task if you have to switch from one user context to the other. Here is a small explanation how to do it all in one place without switching from one user to the other and the need to login with other credentials all the time. Read More »

By Stefan Kitzler-Walli on Saturday, March 07, 2009 12:25 PM

I just stumbled upon a very impressive collection of SharePoint Features available at Codeplex and thought I should share this information.


Here's a small extract of features contained:

• Debugger Feature
• Log Viewer
• Toolbar Manager
• Unique Column Policy
• Window Links
• Content Type Hierarchy
• Debug Config Feature
• Minimal Master
• Clean Web Part Errors
• Manage Form Users
• Anonymous Audience
• and many more...

See this link for more details and the sourcecode: http://features.codeplex.com/