24 Hours of PASS registration open
Registration is open for 24 hours of PASS in March! Go to http://bit.ly/fMzarY to register. This one is “Celebrating Women in Technology” and has some great sessions lined up, including discussions on T-SQL, SSRS, SSIS, performance, MDX, even Twitterdata in Azure! You don’t want to miss this!
24 Hours of PASS – March 15-16 2011
The 24 Hours of PASS is returning March 15th-16th 2011, and they’re looking for feedback on which sessions to include! If you’d like to participate, the link to the survey can be found here. I chose the ones I’d like to see, be sure to stop by and make your selections for your favorites! I’m looking forward to another great set of informative sessions! If you haven’t done the 24 Hours of PASS yet, it’s definitely worth attending! If you…
Office Communicator custom presence in R2
I upgraded my Office Communicator 2007 to R2 last week, and my custom presence stopped working. Turns out R2 will assume default security for transport, which is set to High, and then requires your custom presence XML file to be an HTTPS URL. Even if you set your registry entry to be an https path it still won’t work. The link to the articles that did help can be found here: Defining custom presence states for Office Communicator 2007 R2Communicator…
Case expressions may only be nested to level 10
I was working on a rather lengthy query that used a typical CASE WHEN THEN ELSE END sequence, but it kept telling me “Case expressions may only be nested to level 10”, even though I wasn’t nesting or doing something unique with them, just like this: case when field1 = ‘data’ then ‘data1’ when field1 = ‘datax’ then ‘data2’ when field1 = ‘datay’ then ‘data3’ when field1 = ‘dataz’ then ‘data4’ when field1 = ‘dataa’ then ‘data5’ when field1 =…
7 Free .Net Development and Architecture e-Books!
Thank you to MSDN for re-distributing Anoop’s blog post on these seven FREE .Net development e-Books! The last group are Scribd from DZone, and you have to have a DZone account and be logged in to download, but the rest are freely downloadable from the websites. Here’s the title and link to each: Foundations of ProgrammingMicrosoft Application Architecture Guide, 2nd Ed.Rob Miles C# YellowBook 2010Threading in C#Improving .Net Application Performance and StabilityApplying Design Patterns DZone Reference CardsGetting Started With WCF…