Yasser Azeem's Blog

Troubleshooting a typical Windows Azure Storage Emulator database issue

yazeem — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 10:34:11 +0000

With this information we know that we can initialize our local SQL Server default instance with the following command:

dsinit /sqlInstance:.

Adding Permissions on Directory

yazeem — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:15:42 +0000

public void AddPermission(string absoluteFolderPath)
{
string name = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name;

DirectoryInfo myDirectoryInfo = new DirectoryInfo(absoluteFolderPath);

DirectorySecurity myDirectorySecurity = myDirectoryInfo.GetAccessControl();

myDirectorySecurity.AddAccessRule(new FileSystemAccessRule(
name,
FileSystemRights.FullControl,
AccessControlType.Allow));

myDirectorySecurity.AddAccessRule(new FileSystemAccessRule(
“Everyone”,
FileSystemRights.FullControl,
AccessControlType.Allow));
myDirectoryInfo.SetAccessControl(myDirectorySecurity);

FileInfo file = new FileInfo(absoluteFolderPath + @”\Izenda.config”);
FileSecurity fileSecurity = file.GetAccessControl();

fileSecurity.AddAccessRule(new FileSystemAccessRule(
name,
FileSystemRights.FullControl,
AccessControlType.Allow));

fileSecurity.AddAccessRule(new FileSystemAccessRule(
“NETWORK SERVICE”,
FileSystemRights.FullControl,
AccessControlType.Allow));

file.SetAccessControl(fileSecurity);
}

Current time stamp in C#

yazeem — Tue, 31 May 2011 12:38:40 +0000

DateTime.Now.ToString(“yyyyMMddHHmmssffff”)

selecting from XML in Sql server

yazeem — Wed, 04 May 2011 12:14:53 +0000

DECLARE @myXml AS XML
SET @myXml =
‘

test1

test2

‘

SELECT
T.c.VALUE(‘@id[1]‘, ‘int’) AS [id]
, T.c.VALUE(‘Description[1]‘, ‘nvarchar(max)’) AS [description]
FROM @myXml.nodes(‘/ArrayOfProduct/Product’) AS T(c)

XML to Table in SQL Server

yazeem — Wed, 04 May 2011 10:32:22 +0000

DECLARE @xmlDoc NVARCHAR(200)
DECLARE @handle INT
SET @xmlDoc = N’

409-56-7008
Bennet
Abraham

‘
EXEC sp_xml_preparedocument @handle OUTPUT, @xmlDoc
SELECT * FROM OPENXML (@handle, ‘/authors’, 2) WITH
(au_id VARCHAR(20),
au_lname NVARCHAR(20),
au_fname NVARCHAR(20)
)
EXEC sp_xml_removedocument @handle

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Sample databases

yazeem — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 14:38:21 +0000

Northwind or other sample database is not installed by default in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Express edition. you can download the sample AdventureWorks database from following link.

http://sqlserversamples.codeplex.com/

Get Modified Tables, Views, Store Procedures in specified date range

yazeem — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:56:19 +0000

Following queries are used to get Modified Tables, Views, Store Procedures in specified date range

select database and run following queries

– USER_TABLE
select * from sys.objects
where type = ‘U’
and modify_date between ’2010-07-01 11:58:20.000′ and ’2010-07-31 12:00:00.000′

– VIEW
select * from sys.objects
where type = ‘V’
and modify_date between ’2010-07-01 11:58:20.000′ and ’2010-07-31 12:00:00.000′

– SQL_STORED_PROCEDURE
select * from sys.objects
where type = ‘P’
and modify_date between ’2010-07-01 11:58:20.000′ and ’2010-07-31 12:00:00.000′

Breakout in Silverlight

yazeem — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:56:26 +0000

Silverlight technology serves one of the best platform to write web based games. The main advantage is that shapes in Silverlight draw themselves and they support the same events as other elements. So we don’t need to worry about painting process of shapes etc. This game also serves as the basics to develop game in Silverlight.

complete article at following link

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/silverlight/Silverlight_Breakout.aspx

Visual Studio 2010 Launch Live

yazeem — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:46:40 +0000

watch Visual Studio 2010 launch live at following link

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/watch-it-live

Relative URL for html controls

yazeem — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 05:32:16 +0000

if you want to assign a resource path to an html element like this

this will not work, this will work only for server side controls, to do this job you can use ASP.NET ResolveClientUrl(relativePath) method as

’ />