Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 is available for MSDN Subscribers and It will be Generally Available as of Thursday, March 10, 2011
Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is available for download. MSDN subscribers can download the bits now. General availability will be on Thursday, March 10. Here are the links : Download Service Pack 1 (MSDN Subscribers) Thursday’s general availability download is here.
Read More → Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 is available for MSDN Subscribers and It will be Generally Available as of Thursday, March 10, 2011Great SQL Azure Resource page – Everything you ever wanted to know about SQL Azure, but were afraid to ask
You’re wondering ore maybe you’ve already using “SQL Azure” but still have questions on your mind and don’t know where to start. Here’s a good resource for you. You can find our wiki about SQL Azure here. I’m pretty sure that you will like it if you’re interested in using SQL Azure or already started […]
Read More → Great SQL Azure Resource page – Everything you ever wanted to know about SQL Azure, but were afraid to askUse of MSXML (MSXML3, MSXML4, MSXML6 our COM component libraries) in .NET applications are not supported
Our KB article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/815112 clearly states this. Then, you may ask me “Why this guy is repeating the documented thing in this blog post ?”. Answer is simple, we do see lots of issues coming from our customers about this and I want to mention about this point in this blog too just thinking that I […]
Read More → Use of MSXML (MSXML3, MSXML4, MSXML6 our COM component libraries) in .NET applications are not supportedDownload Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server 4.0 CTP! (Community Technology Preview)
Though this CTP release is released on 14th of January, 2011, I noticed that I forgot adding my blog. In case if you haven’t noticed that it’s available already and want to “play” with the 4.0 CTP please download it from here. This technology preview of the JDBC driver added support for Denali. Main features which are […]
Read More → Download Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server 4.0 CTP! (Community Technology Preview)Why do you see grayed out GenerateDBDirectMethods checkbox in “TableAdapter Configuration Wizard”
In Visual Studio 2008 or Visual Studio 2010, you’ve started developing your Data project and let’s say you’re designing your DataSets through Visual Studio’s nice DataSet Designer just by drag/dropping your entities (tables, views) into the designer , from “Server Explorer” that you connected to your SQL Server . If your entity is a “Table” […]
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In your SSIS packages, if you need to read from or write to Oracle likely that you most probably hit some Oracle Client related configuration issues. ORACLE_HOME, PATH environmental variables etc. Sometimes you may see a machine needs to run SSIS packages and you see that an Oracle Client is installed but you don’t know […]
Read More → SSIS: How to know if the installed Oracle Client is 32bit or 64bit on your SSIS machineRegistration is now open for TechEd Middle East 2011
Registration is now open for TechEd Middle East 2011. Tech·Ed is Microsoft’s premier technical education event providing the most comprehensive technical training on Microsoft’s suite of products, technologies, solutions and services and takes place in Dubai, March 8 – 10, 2011. * Hear about the future of Microsoft’s products and technologies directly from the Microsoft […]
Read More → Registration is now open for TechEd Middle East 2011Important: ASP.NET Security Vulnerability
On 17th of September 2010, we released a Microsoft Security Advisory about a security vulnerability in ASP.NET. This vulnerability exists in all versions of ASP.NET. This vulnerability was publically disclosed late Friday at a security conference. We recommend that all customers immediately apply a workaround (described in the Scott Guthrie’s blog post in http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/09/18/important-asp-net-security-vulnerability.aspx or in the […]
Read More → Important: ASP.NET Security VulnerabilityWhy “Package Load error 0xC0010014 in CPackage::LoadFromXML” error appears while trying to run an SSIS Package ?
As you know an SSIS package is an XML content regardless if you’re storing your SSIS package in file system (as a .dtsx file) or storing your SSIS package in MSDB (then your XML content inserted into sysdtspackages or sysdtspackages90 tables in MSDB) Of course this XML content has its own schema and the SSIS […]
Read More → Why “Package Load error 0xC0010014 in CPackage::LoadFromXML” error appears while trying to run an SSIS Package ?Accessing Excel files on a x64 machine
In the old times while all the CPUs were 32bit, we were happily using JET OLEDB Provider reaching Excel or MDB files for long time without any issues. After we started using x64 CPUs and x64 Windows machines, we noticed that JET OLEDB Provider is not working. The reason for this was x64 Windows operating […]
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