stsadm -o provisionservice -action start -servicetype spwebservice

// Instantiate using constructor 
Tuple<int, string, int> t1 = new Tuple<int, string, int>(4, "Stelio", 7);

// Instantiate using create method 
Tuple<int, int, int> t2 = Tuple.Create(2, 7, 9);

<script language='JavaScript' src='http://j.maxmind.com/app/geoip.js'></script>
<script language='JavaScript'>document.write(geoip_country_code());</script>

<script language='JavaScript'>
if(geoip_country_code()=="IT")

{
//Redirect ALL users from ITALY on google.com

location.replace("http://www.google.com");
}

</script>

the code is extremely easy to use, anyway I am looking forward for the proper GeoLocation API shipped with HTML5

This code is perfect to automate the upload of your deployment package.

1) Create a Bat File with the following code and name it Upload.bat

@echo off
echo user FTPUserName> ftpcmd.dat
echo FTPPWD >> ftpcmd.dat
echo cd FolderName >>ftpcmd.dat
echo bin>> ftpcmd.dat
echo put %1>> ftpcmd.dat
echo quit>> ftpcmd.dat
ftp -n -s:ftpcmd.dat FTPserverURL
del ftpcmd.dat

as you can understand you have to put into your username and password and eventually the code to switch directory if you are going to upload something on the root…

2) call your bat file with the following syntax: upload.bat testFile.zip

Happy scripting to everybody

the simples sample of use of the BackgroundWorker is a WinForm application that count from 1 to 999 billion and every time that add 1 million, update a simple textBox on the form…

As you can see code is extremely simple… just remember to enable the WorkerReportProgress to true and use the UserState to pass values between events…

ps. this sample does not support user cancellation and does not handle more than 1 click…

public Form1()
       {
           InitializeComponent();
           backgroundWorker1.WorkerReportsProgress = true;
       }

       private void backgroundWorker1_DoWork(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
       {
           var bckwork = (BackgroundWorker)sender;
           for (Int64 i = 1; i <= 9999999999; i++)
           {
               if ((i % 1000000) == 0)
               {
                   int  prog =  (int)(i / 1000000) ;
                   bckwork.ReportProgress( prog, i);
               }
           }
       }

       private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
       {
           backgroundWorker1.RunWorkerAsync();
       }

       private void backgroundWorker1_ProgressChanged(object sender, ProgressChangedEventArgs e)
       {
           textBox1.Text = e.UserState.ToString();
       }

On my last project we have decided to migrate to Mercurial from TFS and we are enjoying the following technologies stack:

Mercurial – Bitbucket– Jira – TeamCity

How can you do all of this???

Jira with the agile plugin is an excellent tool to run an Agile project, and you can integrate it fairly easily with Mercurial…

TeamCity can be also integrated fairly easily with Mercurial to keep under control build and deployment processes

Bitbucket is the connector to see your Mercurial repository “onLine”

as useful tools, I would also recommend TortoiseHG and VisualHG and Jira Connector for VS

these are few command to remember in the everyday life using mercurial…

How to switch Branch: HG update "default"

TFS CheckIn
hg push 

TFS get latest
hg pull 

after pull sometime hg up o hg update

hg merge to mix changes after a pull

how to download an existing repository from bitbucket
hg clone https://username@bitbucket.org/repCreator/projectName

TO KNOW ALL THE EXISTING BRANCHES
hg branches

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/07/07/installing-windows-virtual-pc-on-windows-7-home-editions.aspx

Anyhow if you have windows 7 home I would recommend you VirtualBox Oracle solution for virtualization… http://www.virtualbox.org

It is not powerful as VISIO but I found it much easier to use!!!

http://balsamiq.com/

SQL Store Procedure with a TABLE Parameter

   1: Create PROC [dbo].[getData]

   2:  

   3:  @MyTableParam ProductsTableType  READONLY ,

   4:  @InputId varchar (200)

   5:  

   6:  AS

   7:  

   8:       SELECT  *

   9:       FROM  table1 sub

  10:       

  11:       inner join @MyTableParam p on  sub.Productid = p.productId and sub.VariantId = p.VariantId

  12:       

  13:       INNER JOIN somethingelse ON sub.SubscriptionID = Subscription.ID

  14:         

  15:     where Field =@InputId

  16:       

and this is the code to call the storeProc

   1: private void AssignProductDataTableRow(DataTable products, CatalogItemsDataSet.CatalogItem catalogItem)

   2:        {

   3:            DataRow dr = products.NewRow();

   4:            dr[0] = catalogItem.ProductId;

   5:            dr[1] = catalogItem.VariantId;

   6:            products.Rows.Add(dr);

   7:        }

   8:  

   9:        public static DataTable PrepareProductsDataTable()

  10:        {

  11:            var products = new DataTable();

  12:  

  13:            var prIdCol = new DataColumn("ProductId", Type.GetType("System.String"));

  14:            var varIdCol = new DataColumn("VariantId", Type.GetType("System.String"));

  15:  

  16:            products.Columns.Add(prIdCol);

  17:            products.Columns.Add(varIdCol);

  18:            return products;

  19:        }

  20:  

  21:      using (

  22:                var conn =

  23:                    new SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["CustomProductData"].ToString()))

  24:            {

  25:                SqlCommand cmd = conn.CreateCommand();

  26:                cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;

  27:                cmd.CommandText = "dbo.getData";

  28:  

  29:                cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@MyTableParam", products);

  30:                cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@InputId", "1");

  31:  

  32:                conn.Open();

  33:                SqlDataReader res = cmd.ExecuteReader();

  34:  

  35:  

  36:                while (res.Read())

  37:                {

  38:                 //Read Row...

  39:                 }

  40: }