Report builder 2.0 is a report authoring tool that we can use to design and publish reports. We can specify the data source, what data to display on report and which layout you prefer to see the report. When you run the report, the report processor takes all the information you specified and retrieves the data and generates each page as you view it. This post explains step-by-step details of...
Log Parser usage
Log parser is a free tool from Microsoft where developers and support technicians can use to parse the IIS logs, Event Logs and Active Directory logs. This tool helps the developers to find the root cause for the site related issues. This post explains common commands that we use to look for specific information in IIS logs. The tool can be downloaded from here The default location for IIS logs...
SSIS Package Configuration in SQL server 2008
SSIS configuration wizard allows you to create configurations for packages. It also allows you to update the properties and objects of the package at run time. Package Configuration Benefits Configuration really helps the developers to smoothly move the packages from Development environment to Production environment. Eg: Configuring the source path...
WebForms Routing in ASP.NET 4
This post explains about WebForms routing features available in ASP.NET 4. Routing feature originally designed for ASP.NET MVC and now available for Webforms as well. You need to install Visual Studio 2010 ultimate beta2 to try the routing features in ASP.NET 4.
1. Create a ASP.NET Web Application in Visual Studio 2010 as follows
Dynamic Metadata using ASP.NET 4.0
This post explains about Dynamically assigning Metadata to a page using code behind in ASP.NET 4.0. Metadata is so important as Search engine optimization considers Metadata keywords and description to index the page. If you can dynamically assign the metadata to your page then search engine can easily analyze and puts the page in results list. 1. Create a ASP.NET web application in VS 2010...
WCF Discovery with UDP
Inorder to call the WindowsCommunicationFoundation service, a port or pipe which assigned to the service must be available and the client must know the address endpoints before calling the services. If the service could use any available address then client can discover that address at runtime. There is a industry standard-based solution which helps in discovering the service addresses. Address...
Remote Desktop Sessions from Commandline
You will commonly see the following error message when you try to connect windows 2003 server using RemoteDesktopConnection. “The terminal server has exceeded the maximum of allowed connections †You can disconnect the other remotely logged in users if you are a domain Admin user. Most of the users some time not even be using the sessions. To see the list of remote sessions in the...