MSDN Blogs: What are the rules for CoMarshalInterface and CoUnmarshalInterface?
Last time, we looked at the rules for CoMarshalInterThreadInterfaceInStream and CoGetInterfaceAndReleaseStream, the functions you use for sharing an object with another thread in the sample...
View ArticleMSDN Blogs: @@VERSION and SERVERPROPERTY – What changed?
Cross post with aka.ms/sqlserverteamWith the recent release of SQL Server 2014 SP1 CU3 and SQL Server 2014 RTM CU10, you will notice another change in the output @@VERSION.The motivation to introduce...
View ArticleMSDN Blogs: @@VERSION and SERVERPROPERTY – What changed?
With the recent release of SQL Server 2014 SP1 CU3 and SQL Server 2014 RTM CU10, you will notice another change in the output @@VERSION.The motivation to introduce this change in the @@VERSION output...
View ArticleMSDN Blogs: An open letter about the terms "F#" and "Visual F#"
[ The opinions here are entirely my own etc etc. ]Dear World,With regard to this InfoQ article… I’ve said this like a thousand times, but please use the terminology “Visual F#” or “The Visual F# Tools”...
View ArticleMSDN Blogs: SQL Admin Script Collection
Decided to consolidate my last blog posts into a single script collection. Script to empty and remove a File from a SQL DatabaseAlter Database AdventureWorksDW2014 set multi_user with rollback...
View ArticleMSDN Blogs: All Assemblies not found in BizTalk 2010 and above
Recently I experienced an a very common issue the artifactnot found or the DLL not found issue in my BizTalk Server Environment. But thedll/artifacts not found error occurred not for one artifact/dll...
View ArticleMSDN Blogs: Project Virtual Conference 2015
I hope you all had a chance to attend some of the excellent sessions over the last couple of days – I’m just catching a couple of the last presentations right now at...
View ArticleMSDN Blogs: CoGetInterfaceAndReleaseStream does not mix with smart pointers
One horrible gotcha of the CoGetInterfaceAndReleaseStream function is that it releases the stream. This is a holdover from the old days before smart pointers. The function released the stream to...
View ArticleMSDN Blogs: Database restore failure when restoring from URL
SQL Server 2014 and later includes a feature named Managed Backup, which automates scheduled database backup tasks. Managed Backup backs up databases to an Azure storage account using Backup to URL. As...
View ArticleMSDN Blogs: SharePoint Usage Database in SQL Server AlwaysOn
SharePoint has a very handy service-application that’s normally running called the “SharePoint usage & health” application. It’s actually a very useful to have under normal circumstance as it logs...
View ArticleMSDN Blogs: Launch your weekend with the Friday Fives!
Data Platform MVP Robert L Davis @SQLSoldier:New Whitepaper: Deciding Between Merge and Peer-to-Peer ReplicationVisual Studio and Development Technologies MVP Angel Hernandez: MetaFS (Metadata File...
View ArticleMSDN Blogs: Building Web Sites that Work Everywhere
I have presented on multiple conferences on Building Web Sites that Work Everywhere. Many of you have asked me for presentation. Here is the detail. Abstract How to build web sites that work well...
View ArticleMSDN Blogs: VS2015 Remote Debugging JavaScript
VS2015 provides first class experience for debugging JavaScript code. You can leverage remote debugging features to debug JavaScript code on remote machine. The app can be internet explorer process or...
View ArticleMSDN Blogs: Small Basic 1.2 - Release Notes
The Small Basic 1.2 Release Notes can be found on TechNet Wiki (we'll keep them updated there):Microsoft Small Basic 1.2 Release Notes Here is a snapshot in time of the Release...
View ArticleMSDN Blogs: Learn to Customize and Edit Machine Translation at MT Summit XV
AMTA's international machine translation conference, MT Summit XV, kicks off next Friday, October 30 in Miami, Florida. The conference brings together researchers, developers, and users of machine...
View ArticleMSDN Blogs: Debugging Tip: Dump ASMX call payloads
In ASMX services, it is always that request and response payloads are point of interest. As per scenario, we can have crash dumps or manual memory dumps only. How can we read the payloads? Step-1Get to...
View ArticleMSDN Blogs: .NET Application Hosting Web Browser Control Freezes / Hangs...
Background Recently, I ran into few incidents where .NET Application hosting web browser control was hanging during start up. When I investigated dump file, I found out that the hang has nothing to do...
View ArticleMSDN Blogs: See you at VeeamOn!
After having a great time talking about Windows 10, Hyper-V and Containers in Stockholm - I am heading straight to Las Vegas to talk about Hyper-V and Windows Server Availability at VeeamOn. So if you...
View ArticleMSDN Blogs: Investigating issues with VSO Hosted Build - 10/24 - Investigating
Initial Update: Saturday, 24 October 2015 08:00 UTC We are actively investigating issues with Hosted Build on VSO. Small subset of customers experience long build wait times against hosted agent. We...
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