March 2007 - CS MVP Bloggers

In previous versions of T-SQL you had to use a trigger to retrieve data from inserted, updated or deleted rows in tables which wasn't very straightforward. SQL Server 2005 adds a new clause to T-SQL to simplify this task. OUTPUT is this clause. First suppose that I have a simple table like this: CREATE TABLE MyTable ( id INT IDENTITY PRIMARY KEY , FullName nvarchar(20), Age INT ) OUTPUT clause works like a SELECT statement but its usage differs in INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE commands (I'll give examples...

I've gotten a new Keyboard and Mouse set, this time from Microsoft. It's the Windows Entertainment Desktop 7000 (Link: http://www.microsoft.com/uk/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/productdetails.aspx?pid=081 ). I wanted the 8000, but that has been delayed in the UK until September. I'll buy it then, and give my current one to the family, for prob usage on the Media Center PC I'll be installing over the summer. The keyboard looks cool, but will take a bit of getting used to it, due to the slight curve in...

Rob 's announcement about our book had a result and helped me to find another Iranian on .NET community. Hamid Shojaee (CEO of Axosoft company) had seen that post and was kind enough to contact me and ask about myself and we had an email conversation about personal stuff. Previously Hamid was a team lead at Microsoft, Intel and IBM and now he's running his own company, Axosoft . Hamid has started Axosoft and primary focuses on building a team management software for .NET which is named OnTime . OnTime...

Forum is the most powerful application in Community Server. I think blogs and forums are most commonly used applications in Community Server. In new series of my CS Dev Guide posts I want to talk about forums and some related topics about them. This first post is dedicated to forum itself and how to get, add, delete or update a forum. CommunityServer.Discussions.Components.Forum is the main class to represent a forum. It's derived from CommunityServer.Component.Section base class and extends its...

After Rainbox Six Vegas and Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent was the third game that I played from Tom Clancy series in a few days before my training and during my training holidays and finally I could finish it in my holidays for new year eve. Unlike first two games that were modern tactical shooter, this game was a modern action adventure but like them Splinter Cell had same great graphic. Story is real. You should act as an agent for two groups. A terrorist...

As I stated before ( here and here ) a few months ago I started a project with Microsoft EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) to write some articles about their showcase for "The Panel" program about Windows Presentation Foundation and XAML which is named UniveRSS and is actually a 3D feed reader designed with .NET 3.0. After a while, today first part of my articles has been published and you can read this part, Introduction to UniveRSS , on Microsoft EMEA site. In the first part of our article...

Today we're excited to announced that Community Server 2007, Beta 2 is now available! Community Server 2007, Beta 2 (Web Install) Community Server 2007, Beta 2 (MSI) Community Server 2007, One-Click Demo We've managed to fix quite a few bugs and...

With the release of CS 2007 Beta 2, http://communityserver.org/forums/p/485811/573127.aspx#573127 , I have released an Update onto Aero Updates. If you have Aero 2007 Beta 1 and CS 2007 Beta 1 installed, check Aero Updates. On Aero Updates now is Aero 2007 Beta 1 + CS 2007 Beta 2. This update package contains all of the files needed to update CS to Beta 2. All you'll need to do is run the SQL update file after Aero has installed it. Enjoy. Read More...