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Study Guide for Biztalk Server 2010 Certification Exam 70-595

DotNetRobert.com - Thu, 06/02/2011 - 21:47

Microsoft has come up with the new Certification Exam for Biztalk Server 2010: Exam 70-595

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What is an Adorner in WPF?

DotNetRobert.com - Wed, 06/01/2011 - 21:47

Adorners are a special type of FrameworkElement, used to provide visual cues to a user. Among other uses, Adorners can be used to add functional handles to elements or provide state information about a control.

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How to Validate your Schema in Biztalk?

DotNetRobert.com - Wed, 06/01/2011 - 21:29
How to Test your Schema?

There are three operations you can perform on your schema to validate it.

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What is a read-only attached property?

DotNetRobert.com - Fri, 05/27/2011 - 21:13

An attached property is a concept defined by Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML). An attached property is intended to be used as a type of global property that is settable on any object.

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What is a read-only dependency property?

DotNetRobert.com - Fri, 05/27/2011 - 21:12

Represents a property that can be set through methods such as, styling, data binding, animation, and inheritance

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What is a DependencyObject?

DotNetRobert.com - Fri, 05/27/2011 - 20:54

Dependency Represents an object that participates in the dependency property system.

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What is Partial Class in C#?

DotNetRobert.com - Thu, 05/26/2011 - 21:32

Partial Class is a cool feature in C# which enables you to split you implementation of a class, struct or an interface over two or more source files.

When do you want to use a Partial Class?

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What is a WCF Endpoint?

DotNetRobert.com - Thu, 05/26/2011 - 21:05

A WCF Service has three essential things; the Address that has info on where the Service resides, the Binding that has information on how to communicate and use the service and the Contract which defines what the service does. A combination of all this is a WCF Endpoint.

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How to find which process has a file open

DotNetRobert.com - Wed, 05/11/2011 - 22:07

Error 1:

Error Deleting File or Folder

Cannot delete FolderName: Access is denied.

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WCF vs Web Services

DotNetRobert.com - Fri, 05/06/2011 - 15:18

Both Web services and WCF enables you to fulfill you Service Oriented Architecture implementation.  If Web Services can be used to make your architecture Service Oriented then why did Microsoft come up with something new called WCF. Sure WCF needs to have something over Web Services. Let’s see what WCF has in addition to what Web Services had. Here are some points:

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What is WCF Routing Service?

DotNetRobert.com - Tue, 05/03/2011 - 21:08

The WCF Routing Service provides are pluggable SOAP intermediate that routes messages based on the message content. The Routing Service also provides you with the ability to create complex routing logic that enables you to handle scenarios such as service versioning, service aggregation, multicast routing, priority routing. The Routing Service also has Error Handling by having backup endpoints to which the messages are routed in case of a failure.

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Windows Workflow 4 Learning Resources

DotNetRobert.com - Tue, 05/03/2011 - 14:17

Here is a list of a collection of resources available online to learn Windows Workflow 4. Its free, feel free to visit the links and explore and be an expert in WF4. Wish you All the Best!

 

Workflow Foundation 4 Resources

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The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect

DotNetRobert.com - Thu, 04/28/2011 - 21:45

I had an unusual situation where I had gone on a vacation for a month and on returning back booted my system and found that some of my applications stopped working. Applications like MS Office (Word, Visio, Outlook, Excel, Powerpoint) and even Adobe reader stopped working. It came up with the following errors. In this article I am trying to explain how these errors can be resolved. I have described different options. I hope one of the options will work for you.

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How do I: Change the Text and Visibility of a Menu Command?

Team System - Fri, 09/24/2010 - 06:58
This video demonstrates how to set dynamic text and visibility on a menu command. This is part four of a series, starting with "How do I: Add a Command to the Visual Studio IDE?"
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How do I: Add a Command to the Visual Studio IDE?

Team System - Fri, 09/24/2010 - 06:49
This video demonstrates how to add a command to the Visual Studio IDE by creating a VSPackage project. The author also shows the relevant pieces of code and markup that determine the placement of the command and how events are attached.
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Visualizing Runtime Object Graphs

Team System - Fri, 09/24/2010 - 06:21
One of the first questions people seem to ask when they see the Dependency Graph features of Visual Studio 2010 is whether it can also be used to visualize run-time object graphs. In this video, I will show you how that can be done using the SOS debugger extensions and specifically the GCRoot command. I've used this technique several times to help figure out some really complex memory leak bugs, so I'm confident you will find this to be a useful tool to add to your toolbox of tricks.

The code for the GCRootToDGML tool is available to download so you can try this out yourself. It should work with any recent version of Visual Studio 2010.
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Standard Dependency Graphs

Team System - Fri, 09/24/2010 - 06:19
Soma Somasegar, Vice President of Developer Division, posted a blog about architecture tools in Visual Studio 2010, including some interesting dependency graph screen shots. To follow up on that, this video demos how this dependency graph feature works in more detail. The video is in lovely big HD resolution (1280 x 720) so you can really see what's going on. When I show this to customers, the reaction I get is excitement followed by "finally, I can see the big picture" of my code. Customers often find big things to improve in their code in the first 5 minutes of browsing with this tool.
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