Risk Management

Monday, October 19, 2009

When we work on a new project, should I say “unknown territory?” We start thinking of many things, do we know the technology? Are the requirements clear? Is it going to change? Are we capable of doing?, Is it untested technology for which we have to do some POC? Do we have resources? Do we have adequate experience about the hardware, is software available? In Software Engineering words it’s a RISK.

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Test with Visual Studio Team System

Monday, October 12, 2009

Visual Studio Team System embraces the entire software development team, architects, programmers and testers. Test is available with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Edition. It provides a comprehensive suite of testing tools for Web applications and services that are integrated into the Visual Studio environment. These testing tools enable testers to author, execute and manage tests and related work items—all from within Visual Studio.

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Database Engine Tuning Advisor

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Database Tuning has always been the DBA’s task. But with the SQL Server 2005 Database Engine Tuning Advisor, any one can work towards increasing the database performance and tuning it. SQL Server 2005 – Database Engine Tuning Advisor replaces the SQL Server 2000 – Index Tuning Wizard, which was definitely not bad, but the new version comes with many new features and improvements.

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Microsoft Gives Anti-Virus Another Try…

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

One thing which was missing from Microsoft line of product was ANTIVIRUS. They have all the software utilities with the Operating System, be is notepad, paint, media player, image viewer etc. Now with the Microsoft Security Essentials the line is longer and better. This new member in Microsoft’s family is not new, there was Microsoft Live One Care, which was a disaster and was not free.

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SQL Prompt - The Must-Have Productivity Tool for SQL Developers

Monday, August 31, 2009

I am always wondering why Microsoft has not introduced intelligent editor for SQL Server. SQL Server has come a long way and with the enhancements in SQL Server Management Studio, it is anybody’s guess why it has not been incorporated. But I am using SQL Prompt for that missing functionality and it is definitely a cool tool, which gives the same feel as if we are working with Visual Studio for SQL. I hope Microsoft will include some of its features in next versions of SQL Server so that we don’t have to buy licenses of Red Gate.

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Resharper - The Must-Have Productivity Tool for .NET Developers

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Resharper - The Must-Have Productivity Tool for .NET Developers I have been using Resharper since a year and am very impressed with it. Microsoft development environments have always been very developer friendly, right since early Visual Studio days. This tool [Resharper] sits on top of Visual Studio and helps developers in finding errors on the fly, helps in code refactoring, navigating, code reformatting, clean up and yes in automatic code generation. It makes developer’s life easier, helps in producing high quality code and adds values. It has support for C#, VB.Net, ASP.Net, XML, XAML.

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Migration Life Cycle

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Migration Lifecycle – An overview One of the popular work in Software Projects are MIGRATIONS. In todays world it is much more important as everyday new technology emerges and we port existing application to new platforms to leverage its benefits. I have been lucky to work on some Migration Projects. Lets see what it is and what are the main stages and advantages with it.

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Concatenating Row Values

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Concatenating Row Values Concatenating rows, when the value of one column is identical. Eg Data – Table1 ID Col1 1 Val1 2 Val2 3 Val3 3 Val4 Required Results ID Col1 1 Val1 2 Val2 3 Val3, Val4 If we are working with SQL Server 2005, we have a very quick SQL to accomplish it. We will use the query

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How to make best use of Earned Value Management…

Sunday, July 5, 2009

What is Earned Value Management? It is a technique which can be used during the execution of any project in order to see if the project is progressing in a right direction. EVM will help reduce guesswork in Measuring Performance, Forecasting and also gets beyond misleading measures of progress.

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Configuring and Running Classic ASP Applications on IIS 7

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Copy the asp files to inetpub\wwwroot folder, set up the Database, install the COM+ DLLs and run the application, Yes this would have worked if you are working on IIS 4, 5, 6 but not anymore. There are more steps to do when you are working with IIS 7. And most of them are tricky and can make seasoned developer run around for solutions.

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