Monthly Archives: September 2008

.NET: Feed format not supported

Posted on September 21, 2008 by sujant

When you are working with ATOM or RSS applications (ADO.NET Data RESTful Services) and trying to load these applications in a browser, you might get an error in IE browser that the Feed format is not supported. If you look at … Continue reading →

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.NET: What’s new in .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (Visual Studio 2008 SP1)

Posted on September 19, 2008 by sujant

  Microsoft released service packs for .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. Though they are called Service Pack, the developer community look at the release as more of a feature pack as it not only contains bug fixes and … Continue reading →

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SharePoint: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2008 Extensions, Version 1.2

Posted on September 19, 2008 by sujant

Windows SharePoint 3.0 tools for Visual Studio (extensions) is released. You can download it from here. Now you can use Visual Studio 2008 to create SharePoint projects.   Version 1.2 of the Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services … Continue reading →

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BizTalk: Multiple SOAP actions on WCF Adapter for Oracle Databases

Posted on September 16, 2008 by sujant

You can specify multiple (mapping action) or single SOAP action on a Send Adapter when using WCF adapter for Oracle Databases 3.0 (WCF-Custom adapter). The single format would like below:     the multiple SOAP actions format look like below:   Related articles: … Continue reading →

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SQL Server: What’s new in SQL Server 2008

Posted on September 11, 2008 by sujant

  Please read the article below by Joshua Jones: Almost five years had passed the last time Microsoft released an upgraded version of its flagship SQL Server database back in 2005. While SQL Server 2005 was warmly received by IT … Continue reading →

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ADO.NET: Table-valued parameters SQL Server 2008 & Visual Studio 2008 (ADO.NET 3.5)

Posted on September 11, 2008 by sujant

  Table-Valued parameters are a new feature in SQL Server 2008 which enables you to pass an entire table to a SQL Statement or function (Stored procedure) at one time thus reducing number of round trips to the database, unnecessary … Continue reading →

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ADO.NET: MCTS Preparation Guide for 70-561 (ADO.NET 3.5 applications)

Posted on September 9, 2008 by sujant

  coming soon …..

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BizTalk: Migrating Oracle Database Adapter 2.0 to WCF Oracle Adapter 3.0

Posted on September 9, 2008 by sujant

BizTalk Oracle Adapter 2.0 uses System DSN to look up Oracle Instance and connect to it. WCF Adapter 3.0 for Oracle databases uses tnsnames.ora file. So when migrating to WCF Custom Adapter remove the System DSNs from the Data Sources … Continue reading →

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.NET: Visual Studio 2008 ListView (LayoutTemplate) Error

Posted on September 1, 2008 by sujant

When working with ListView in Visual Studio 2008 you will get an Invalid operation error as follows when trying to render a asp.net web form: An item placeholder must be specified on ListView ‘ListView1’. Specify an item placeholder by setting … Continue reading →

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ADO.NET: What’s new in 3.5 (C# 3.0)

Posted on September 1, 2008 by sujant

  LINQ is the most powerful addition in . NET 3.5. It will change the way you would query objects, databases, xml, web services. To support LINQ, new features were added to C# 3.0. Lambda expressions. Provide convenient syntax for … Continue reading →

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