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  • Link: WCF, WPF, WF exams live today

    Just a quick announcement that the following MCTS exams went live today. 70-502: Windows Presentation Foundation 70-503: Windows Communication Foundation 70-504: Windows Workflow Foundation[more] Those who took the related beta exams should expect results this week (according to Gerry). Don’t have mine yet, I haven’t worked enough on those so I don’t expect any good…

  • [Copy To] and [Move To] Context Menu Items

    I find it more productive to simply right click on a file/folder (or multiple file/folders) and be able to copy and move it/them to another folder rather than Cut/Copy, open the target folder and paste or even use Windows Explorer > turn the folder options (tree) on and drag/drop. How do you make it possible?…

  • Encrypting configuration information in .NET (web/windows)

    There are a number of articles on encrypting configuration information for ASP.NET (eg. an article by Scott Michelle (an authority in security)) using aspnet_regiis (pe or pef switches) or in code using DPAPI. Although almost same principles apply, not much I believe is written for windows so since Job Galloway wrote a post recently on…

  • Issue with System.Transactions, SqlConnection and Timeout

    Just recently, a post was made in Microsoft Forums regarding a bug/behavior of Committable Transactions and SqlConnection timeout. The same issue is evident for TransactionScope which was posted in 2006. Good thing there is a fix[more] I have used TransactionScope a number of times including in one of my previous posts on Unit Testing (integration…

  • Cannot create Scheduled Job on SQL 2005

    Unable to cast object of type 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.SimpleObjectKey' to type 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Agent.JobObjectKey'. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo) I ran into this error for the first time a few hours ago [more]and I have no idea what's causing it since I've been creating SQL Jobs for some time except for the past few days. Maybe some patch or update or an installation…

  • Ateneo Professional Schools Prometric Testing Center Experience

    UPDATE: Got a number of queries regarding prometric exam locations in Philippines (e.g. Makati) and schedule times etc. To get those information please visit http://www.register.prometric.com/Index.asp For my latest ASP.NET and ADO.NET 3.5 beta exams I took them at Ateneo Professional Schools[more]. Prior exams I have taken where in DBWizards, MISNET and once at EduPro. I…

  • Link: Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services will RTM with Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1

    The ADO.NET Team has just announced this in their blog. There is no definite release date for SP1 yet though. See the post from the following link: Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services will RTM with SP1

  • Link: MCAD, MCSD, SQL 2000 Exams Scheduled for Retirement

    Taken from Exams To Retire Page from Microsoft: [more] The Microsoft policy for exam retirement is modeled on the Microsoft Support Lifecycle Policy for technology releases. In accordance with this policy, Microsoft Learning will retire 12 exams on March 31, 2009. These exams focus on technologies that are no longer included in Microsoft mainstream support.…

  • Link: Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) Guidance Download

    For those not subscribed to Microsoft Security Bulletin, you might be interested to know that Microsoft just released their SDL Guidance (as of 4/9/2008 according to the download detail) Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) Guidance Download Link [more] Overview As part of its commitment to a more secure and trustworthy computing ecosystem, Microsoft is making the details…

  • Firefox Bookmarks Location and Moving it

    It just so happened that I've been asked where Firefox Bookmarks are stored a number of times [more](and I have to admit I also had to look for it the first time) so I figured I'd post here for everyone's convenience (did the gooling for you) It's usually (by deafult I believe) located at C:Documents…

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